U.S.-based offshore outsourcing customers should prepare for the effects of a Trump presidency on their IT services deals. Read More ▶ |
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| White Paper: WGroup The right sourcing strategy can create value through fundamentally changing the way you do business. Multi-sourcing models leveraging best-in-class providers matched to strengths are now the norm. Realize your organization's ultimate sourcing strategy with this next generation outsourcing guide. Read More ▶ | Here are six ways to know you’ve outsourced your software engineering to a world-class team that's ready to move quickly and get the job done. Read More ▶ |
| Former presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce legislation to discourage companies from relocating jobs offshore. Read More ▶ |
| Today we are in a similar situation as we were at the time of Y2K (the 2000 date problem for computers). We have a set of disruptive capabilities in technologies such as automation, analytics, cloud and cognitive computing, which companies have been experimenting with for some time. These technologies are now at a stage of maturity where they can support a completely different volume and level of work and capable of driving a different business model. However, the services market is constrained because many large enterprises are not confident about adopting the new business models that accompany these powerful technologies. President Trump could, albeit possibly unintentionally, cause this to change. Read More ▶ |
| | President-elect Donald Trump on Monday sent out the strongest signal yet that the H-1B visa program is going get real scrutiny. Read More ▶ |
| Once he takes office, I believe President Trump will need to choose between two scenarios for achieving his goals for job creation and immigration reform. I am not advocating that he take such actions; I’m just taking him at his word on the campaign trail as to what he will do and am considering how he could do it. I’ve blogged about immigration and H-1B visa reform for several years. Depending on how he conducts immigration reform, it could accelerate intellectual property creation and generate jobs in the U.S., or it could force IP and jobs to other countries. Here is a look at the difference in strategies and outcomes in the two scenarios. Read More ▶ |
| House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is urging the University of California to drop plans to send some IT jobs offshore. Read More ▶ |
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