The Offshoring of Engineering
The Offshoring of Engineering

Author: National Academy of Engineering

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2008-08-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0309114837

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The engineering enterprise is a pillar of U.S. national and homeland security, economic vitality, and innovation. But many engineering tasks can now be performed anywhere in the world. The emergence of "offshoring"- the transfer of work from the United States to affiliated and unaffiliated entities abroad - has raised concerns about the impacts of globalization. The Offshoring of Engineering helps to answer many questions about the scope, composition, and motivation for offshoring and considers the implications for the future of U.S. engineering practice, labor markets, education, and research. This book examines trends and impacts from a broad perspective and in six specific industries - software, semiconductors, personal computer manufacturing, construction engineering and services, automobiles, and pharmaceuticals. The Offshoring of Engineering will be of great interest to engineers, engineering professors and deans, and policy makers, as well as people outside the engineering community who are concerned with sustaining and strengthening U.S. engineering capabilities in support of homeland security, economic vitality, and innovation.

Offshoring Information Technology
Offshoring Information Technology

Author: Erran Carmel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-05-12

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781139444507

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The decision to source software development to an overseas firm (offshoring) is looked at frequently in simple economic terms - it's cheaper, and skilled labor is easier to find. In practice, however, offshoring is fraught with difficulties. As well as the considerable challenge of controlling projects at a distance, there are differences in culture, language, business methods, politics, and many other issues to contend with. Nevertheless, as many firms have discovered, the benefits of getting it right are too great to ignore. This book explains everything you need to know to put offshoring into practice, avoid the pitfalls, and develop effective working relationships. It covers a comprehensive range of the important offshoring issues: from ROI to strategy, from SLA to culture, from country comparisons to provider marketing. Written for CTOs, CIOs, consultants, and other IT executives, this book is also an excellent introduction to sourcing for business students.

Industry Trends in Engineering Offshoring
Industry Trends in Engineering Offshoring

Author: Vivek Wadhwa

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Engineering jobs are being offshored to countries like India and China, and the trend seems to be gaining momentum. It is not clear whether this will erode U.S competitiveness or provide long term benefit. What is clear is that there is insufficient independent research on this topic. Here, we delve into some of the offshoring experiences of leading American corporations. This report summarizes data collected from 78 division representatives at 58 U.S. based companies involved in engineering offshoring. We discuss their experiences in hiring engineers, the perception of the productivity and quality differences between U.S. engineers and those in China and India, and future trends in offshoring.

Outsourcing and Offshoring of Professional Services: Business Optimization in a Global Economy
Outsourcing and Offshoring of Professional Services: Business Optimization in a Global Economy

Author: Gupta, Amar

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2008-03-31

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1599049732

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"This book discusses the considerations and implications surrounding the outsourcing and offshoring of professional services, such as software development computer-aided design, and healthcare, from multiple global perspectives. This book, offers industry professionals, policymakers, students, and educators with a balance between a broad overview and detailed analysis of offshore outsourcing, would make an invaluable addition to any reference library"--Provided by publisher.

Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering
Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering

Author: Yuhua Luo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 331910831X

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering, CDVE 2014, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in September 2014. The 33 full and 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers cover topics such as cloud technology; the use of cloud for manufacturing, re-source selection, service evaluation, and control; methods for processing and visualizing big data created by the social media, such as Twitter and Facebook; real-time data about human interaction; sentiment analysis; trend analysis; location-based crowdsourcing; effective teamwork; cooperative visualization.

Offshoring
Offshoring

Author: Diana Farrell

Publisher: McKinsey Global Institute

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781422110072

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Offshoring is an issue full of minefields and developments. It is a business tool and an economic phenomenon with significant potential to increase the world's wealth. This anthology aims to help decision makers manage offshoring better. It attempts to give decision-makers and business an understanding of the scope and economics of offshoring.

Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem
Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2009-03-16

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0309177383

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The U.S. information technology (IT) research and development (R&D) ecosystem was the envy of the world in 1995. However, this position of leadership is not a birthright, and it is now under pressure. In recent years, the rapid globalization of markets, labor pools, and capital flows have encouraged many strong national competitors. During the same period, national policies have not sufficiently buttressed the ecosystem, or have generated side effects that have reduced its effectiveness. As a result, the U.S. position in IT leadership today has materially eroded compared with that of prior decades, and the nation risks ceding IT leadership to other nations within a generation. Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem calls for a recommitment to providing the resources needed to fuel U.S. IT innovation, to removing important roadblocks that reduce the ecosystem's effectiveness in generating innovation and the fruits of innovation, and to becoming a lead innovator and user of IT. The book examines these issues and makes recommendations to strengthen the U.S. IT R&D ecosystem.