title: Breaking News: The (Outsourcing) Morons Get It! link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/breaking-news-the-outsourcing-morons-get-it/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 542 created: 2008/04/08 18:07:36 created_gmt: 2008/04/08 18:07:36 comment_status: open post_name: breaking-news-the-outsourcing-morons-get-it status: publish post_type: post

Breaking News: The (Outsourcing) Morons Get It!

Well, nearly.

The New Economics of Outsourcing

So now Infosys, Tata and others are looking to meet U.S. companies demand for “nearsourcing”, due to falling savings from getting services out of the increasingly higher-priced labor in India and elsewhere. So, of course, they’re looking in places like Brazil, whose economy is red hot and getting hotter and so should maintain its low wages for another … 5 or 10 minutes, at least.

Given the weakening dollar and increasing unemployment (not to mention what we’ve always been told were the reasons why India made more sense than anyplace else for outsourcing — language and education) right here in CONUS (Continental United States, and old military term from the 1970’s when the DOD still thought its mission was to actually defend this country, rather than “our interests overseas”), you’d think they would take a look at some of the more impoverished areas right here — like the rural South and inner city Northeast, for example.

Oh, wait. It seems like the folks in India, who are obviously better at business than their U.S. customers, have actually been thinking along those lines:

Outsourcing at Home

And they’re going to make a fortune. As will U.S. firms that begin to finally clue in to the great potential for this market — like the Triangle’s own Rural Sourcing of Durham, NC (not that their website got any play at all in either of the above articles — although there’s a nice piece here that appeared on NPR back in 2005).

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