India Now Outsources Its Own Outsourcing

Are you a recent college graduate and looking for some additional programming training? Well many are now heading to India for a six months and then returning to the US. India is now a world model of outsourcing and other countries are standing in line to get their people trained from what may be considered the worlds best. Here are some of the finer points as presented in an article by TheStar.com:

MYSORE, India–Thousands of Indians report to Infosys Technologies’ campus here to learn the finer points of computer programming. Lately, though, fair-skinned foreigners have been roaming the manicured lawns, too. Many are recent college graduates from the United States, and some have even turned down job offers from employers like Google. Instead, they accepted a novel assignment from Infosys, the Indian technology giant: fly here for six months of training, and then return home to work in the company’s U.S. back offices.

India is outsourcing outsourcing.

One of the constants of the global economy has been companies moving their tasks – and jobs – to India. But rising wages here, a stronger currency, a demand for workers who speak languages other than English, and competition from countries looking to emulate India’s success as a back office – including China, Morocco and Mexico – are challenging that model.

Many executives here acknowledge that outsourcing will increasingly sprinkle tasks around the globe. Or, as Ashok Vemuri, an Infosys senior vice-president, put it, the future of outsourcing is “to take the work from any part of the world and do it in any part of the world.”

To fight on the shifting terrain, and to beat back their emerging rivals, leading Indian companies are hiring workers and opening offices in developing countries themselves, before their clients do.

It sounds like a great plan to me. What do you think?

Comments welcome.

Full article here.

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