Offshoring Research: Volunteers wanted
In my earlier blog I had talked about the increasing significance of Offshoring Managers
Another article on the same theme - Outsourcing pros step up - caught my attention, this time quoting academicians who are spearheading courses and training programs around Offshoring Management.
Prof. Christine Bullen of Stevens Institute of Technology, who was quoted in the article is anchoring a survey, details of which follow. If interested, you may contact her directly.
Short description in Prof. Bullen’s words:
This project is sponsored by the Society for Information Management, which is an association of CIOs and academic researchers and we have a team of academics from U.S. Europe and Australia who are cooperating to gather the data.
We carried out the first phase surveying "client" companies and are now in the second phase of looking at service providers. We are getting data from companies all over the world. In general only one person needs to do the survey, which takes 10-15 minutes on line. However for global organizations where their workforce strategy may be different in different regions, we are getting regional responses. Ideally the respondent either has the responsibility of hiring and developing the workforce or knows the corporate plan for developing the workforce.
All participants in this research are anonymous; all data will be reported as aggregates so that no single organization could be identified.
Thanks,
---Chris
Christine V. Bullen
Professor
Howe School of Technology Management
Stevens Institute of Technology
cbullen@stevens.edu
cbullen@optonline.net
