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The concept of outsourcing has been addressed from different vantage points by various researchers. The ACM Job … Migration Task Force analyzed the impact of outsourcing on jobs [1]. This report and others examining the impact of outsourcing … scenario for offshore outsourcing? …
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Offshore outsourcing of work to support software development and services is seen primarily as a transfer of labor to … relationships of IP residing in software to the business models used for outsourcing. The use of a quantitative model for software …
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The concept of offshoring of professional services first gained attention slightly over 25 years ago. At that time, US … labor aspects of offshoring and its direct impact on employment opportunities in the countries involved. This paper broadens … this perspective by emphasizing that the key drivers for offshoring will be strategic, not economic, over time. A formal …
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The healthcare industry is being impacted by advances in information technology in four major ways: first, a broad spectrum of tasks that were previously done manually can now be done by computers faster, better, and at lower costs; second, some tasks can be outsourced to other countries using...
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Collaborative work groups that span multiple locations and time zones, or "follow the sun," create a growing demand for …
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details the emergence and effect of offshoring of professional services on the U.S. economy. Second, it explores the economic … and public policy concerns surrounding offshoring. Third, it addresses federal and state government responses to … offshoring. Fourth, it examines the constitutional implications of state offshoring restrictions against government contracts and …
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hard look at cost numbers before embarking on outsourcing. Apart from the cost of labor, equipment, and incidentals, are … needed to address the above types of questions, as well as other outsourcing related questions, such as: * What is the United … States doing to encourage/discourage outsourcing? Are these actions legal under current international trading rules? * Is the …
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There is a growing discussion of risks when software development is outsourced. In order to assess the extent of those risks, one needs to know the value of that concerned software. Software is an intangible good, and the value of intangibles is based on the income they are expected to generate...
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convinced that cost considerations should reign as the predominant decision-making factor; others argue that outsourcing means … permanent job loss; and still others believe outsourcing makes U.S. goods and services more competitive in the global … marketplace. We assert that if outsourcing options need to be analyzed in detail with critical objectivity in order to derive …
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