Lee Ann Moore, Chief Marketing Officer

EquaTerra clients looking to improve their internal services pose challenging questions on how to accomplish those objectives and how to make the right decisions. We provide counsel to help them answer their toughest questions when evaluating optimization options across the enterprise. For some clients, they have the internal capabilities to support improvement, flexibility or growth initiatives. Other firms need to use third parties and often outsource to accomplish their objectives. Outsourcing does not always mean loss of employment, but it does mean a change of employment.

Stephanie Overby wrote an article recently for CIO Magazine, “How to Save U.S. IT Jobs,” that includes perspectives from academics, advisors and industry experts. This topic quickly becomes political and that is not the intent of this blog, but what is interesting is how firms deal with the increasing legislative uncertainty.

The tough question for many companies is how to meet their shareholder objectives of maximum profitability and deliver appropriate services. As employees, we are now competing on a global landscape for jobs. The Overby article does not answer the question of how we map the competing objectives of corporate profitability and individual job security, but it provides some compelling suggestions to consider.

Read the CIO Magazine article, How to Save US IT Jobs, by Stephanie Overby.

Filed under: Information Technology (IT), Offshore & Captive Centers, Outsourcing by EquaTerra