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To: Sultan who wrote (18552)	10/17/2003 2:08:29 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 57684

hmmm, what was Mike's primary contention with the model? Because my feeling is that overall, offshore teams are a good thing to include in the overall mix for IT planning, it is hard to imagine Mike having issues with that. The problems in my world currently are that Gartner and Accenture talked these companies into a nine to one ratio of US to offshore labor, including "project managers" and "business analysts" who reside offshore. It doesn't take a genious to see the issues with that. As soon as things started to present themselves more clearly to management as to the validity of this model, it was something of a panic attack because the IT dept had been gutted a year or so earlier. The hiring climate in the 98-01 period was not constructive for long term growth so this offshoring model has some real strategic benefits imho. Gartner really went off the deepend though. Now they are sortof backpeddling, saying companies that use offshoring need to "retool their management"... uh huh