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Outsourcing To Romania

InformationWeek > Offshore Outsourcing > Move Over, India > November 14, 2005

Article outlines the lower cost of IT Outsourcing to Romania - personally I've had fantastic results using a Romanian company for some marketing and design work. They were very professional and about 25% the cost of local companies.

The funny thing was that we got almost 30 proposals for the work and out of the 5 companies we shortlisted based solely on quality of work three of them were based on Romania.

Outsourcing is definately something to be concerned about for American jobs but the solution is not short-term political actions. We need to learn how to utilize these worldwide resources efficiently if we want to succeed.

The short-term political actions are very easy to sell to those who are being put out of a job and make for fantastic stories when put together by someone like Michael Moore but look at the decline of unions as an example.

They spend all their member's money on short-term, mostly political actions which only make for a slow death rather than INVESTING this money back into their members, focusing on better training, increasing productivity and generally partnering with businesses to figure the best solutions out. This has been going on in construction for years - don't let the same thing happen in IT.

Posted by David on November 29, 2005 01:43 PM|Permalink

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