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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (18044)	8/30/2003 11:16:57 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

Well, I am heavily involved in offshoring in my field. In order for offshoring to work, we are going to have to put some structure and controls around the IT development process which we don't have now, and that is indeed going to cause some hiring here (in the US). The problem is the people we need more of here, are also the hardest to get which is why I am a little skeptical of the cost savings being bantered around by the CEOs. US firms routinely write "requirements docs" which are loosely defined statements about what some technical product is supposed to do and give it to a tech team for R&D. That won't work with offshoring. You need a detailed functional design document with layout maps and workflows defined. This functional design area was always the toughest job to do and fill. I don't know.

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (18044)	8/30/2003 11:34:16 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 57684

H. Ross Perot was correct of course. Now that he is doing the same thing as everyone else must be a reason trash him. I don't think so. The idea is (I Hope) that we attempt to get the third world up to our standards, not the other way around. You really dont need to be an Einstein to realize if you ship all your jobs overseas there will be a problem with your countries economy. If the leading economy is in trouble, there is a problem Houston. If you cannot consume all this stuff we produce... what are we gonna do??? This is not advanced economic theory. It is Kindergarten stuff at most. I think I could easily demolish any other suggested theory for instance -g-