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  • Ashant Chalasani
    Ashant Chalasani    Premium Member   Group moderator
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    Re^2: Outsourcing nach Indien ist riskant ?
    Hallo Herr Wulf,

    nun mein Antwort kurz auf Englisch...

    eigentlich sollten wir doch alle auf diesem Planeten zusammenarbeiten. :-)
    That's 100% correct and the right motto!!

    Um Geld zu sparen und manchmal auch Zeit werden Programieraufgaben in die ganze Welt vergeben.
     
    Das Risiko besteht dadurch das man nie weiß was das gegenüber als nächstes macht.
    Überfall,... um mal mit den schweren Delikten anzufangen.
     
    Weiß man ob nicht der Partner in Übersee eine identische Fabrik hat die ein Konkurenzprodukt oder billige Plagiate vertreibt, und nur auf weitere Informationen hofft?
    This is exactly the reason such a thing as "Anonymous-Offshoring" should be avoided like the pest. It is important to know your partner well before giving out important projects to them.

    Always, a pilot-project that should serve the purpose of qualifying the partner should precede more important projects.

    Sie fangen doch erstmal mit einem kleinen Sparbuch an oder? Vertrauen muß man sich erarbeiten.
    Yup - bingo! The key word is "Vertrauen"/Trust. There are several methods of building trust, but the best probably is to do a small project together.

    See also a new case-study I wrote - http://www.euroblaze.de/media/layer3_model.pdf

    Regards
    Ashant
    • 06 May 2009, 1:33 pm
  • Richard Levy
    Richard Levy    Premium Member
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    Re^2: Outsourcing nach Indien ist riskant ?
    I wonder what the consultants writing these reports actually hope to achieve. Do companies really base their sourcing and location decisions on fact-free data. Certainly the successful ones won't. I would expect that successful companies would be using mathematical cost and risk models as a basis for their decision making. Perhaps I'm being overly optimistic.

    The only time that I ever saw the "Black Book" used in a business situation was in a sales presentation by a company who's country happened to be top of the list that year. The company was insolvent 6 months later and left a wake of unsatisfied client contracts.

    For the "Black book" or the article to be useful, they must contain facts that can be used to model costs and risks in location decisions. Since these facts are not listed in either the "black book", one can assume that the people compiling it didn't bother to research the numbers.


    Here is an example
    1. Etwas mehr als 2,4 Prozent der Bevölkerung ab 15 Jahre sind Analphabeten (Habitabilidad en Bogotá, http://encolumbia.com)

    2. the most recent National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) found that four percent of [American] adults could not perform even the simplest literacy tasks on the survey (Central Intelligence Agency (2004) World Fact Book: Literacy. [online] http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2103.ht... via warriorlibrarian.com


    Now I'd want to verify those numbers with a second source before publishing them. I'm also not sure that they can be used directly in a sourcing decision since you'd also need to know the accompanying trends, policies in place to change the trends and other measures of education standard such as number of graduates.

    Finally, the regions mentioned are not homogeneous. You can't disregard South Africa based on a small section of Jo'burg any more than you can disregard the USA based on 8 mile. I've been to both and managed successful projects there. I wonder if the authors have too....
    • 04 Aug 2009, 08:05 am