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Wal-Mart finds offshoring more expensive

“Dillman [Wal-Mart’s CIO] is also getting kudos from employees for ignoring the outsourcing fad. The reason is financial: Wal-Mart's preliminary studies have shown that offshoring is more expensive than writing software in-house, Dillman says. It turns out that offshore programmers tend to take more hours to complete tasks than Wal-Mart's U.S. employees do.”

Via BusinessWeek

Posted 05-14-2004 6:11 AM by Darrell Norton

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Steve wrote RE: Wal-Mart finds offshoring more expensive
on 05-14-2004 2:55 AM
Interesting ;-)
Darrell wrote re: Wal-Mart finds offshoring more expensive
on 05-14-2004 3:01 AM
Yep! At least it should cause companies not to outsource blindly.
Dave wrote re: Wal-Mart finds offshoring more expensive
on 05-14-2004 6:27 AM
I agree. With an industry leader such as Wal-mart taking this stance, hopefully it opens the eyes of other companies, large or small.
Dave wrote re: Wal-Mart finds offshoring more expensive
on 05-14-2004 6:30 AM
The other tidbit is about how the CIO doesn't take her laptop power cable home with her so she she has to stop working when the battery dies. Gotta try that :-)
Darrell wrote re: Wal-Mart finds offshoring more expensive
on 05-14-2004 7:59 AM
Dave- decisions by respected industry leaders should be prominent, not just the hype about offshoring = lower costs. This and Dell "on-shoring" one of their customer service call centers should hopefully give managers pause.
Darrell wrote re: Wal-Mart finds offshoring more expensive
on 05-14-2004 8:01 AM
Dave- my company gave me a docking station for my laptop and let me take it home (they actually gave me one for work, too), so I can't use that excuse! Must think of another excuse...
DockThis wrote re: Wal-Mart finds offshoring more expensive
on 05-14-2004 9:50 AM
"Let" you take it home. Take it back to work, and leave it there.