| Topic Name: |
What Would You Change? |
| Message Name: |
"backshoring" bringing back jobs to the US |
| Date Posted: |
03/14/2006 |
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You are the chairman of the board of directors of a major global firm that just acquired Hewitt Associates. You have unlimited capital and resources at your disposal. You can change Hewitt any way you want; it's your company to do with as you please. What would you change? Sell Consulting to another firm? Keep Consulting but spin off HRO? Sell the whole company at its breakup value? Reorganize the firm? Buy another firm and merge its operations with Hewitt? Anything is fair game. It can be minor changes. Or, no changes at all. Maybe you'd take the firm in a whole new direction, starting a new line of business or something. Maybe you'd mix in insurance brokerage or investment management services. Maybe you'd go after smaller firms and move away from Fortune 500 firms. This is neither a pro-Hewitt or anti-Hewitt question; I'm sure we'd get equally interesting responses from both sides as well as from folks who are generally neutral about Hewitt. |
| Message: |
Some solid business rationales to bring tech jobs back from India are in this article:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/03/20/8371784/index.htm
Some quotes from the article below:
.... companies are finding, turnover among engineers in India is rapid, loyalty is nil, and poaching and piracy are rampant.
"For us, having the designers and architects in California and the programmers in India has actually meant longer delivery times and higher costs."
Fields expects that having everyone side by side will raise productivity to the point where KANA can deliver a better product with about a fourth as many engineers.
SEE THAT? A BETTER PRODUCT WITH A FOURTH AS MANY ENGINEERS! HEWITT NEEDS TO DO THE SAME.
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