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With so many good things being said about Outsourcing and one of MAIN criterias of why it's good is the COST factor. Well, it looks like the COST factor is not so much a good reason to just move your IT operations to another country like India or China or even Malaysia nowadays. BeyondVC looks at the changing trends of the global economy and agress that the US's dominance is decreasing in light of new dragons coming out of their shells like China and India...

So instead of just offshoring ALL your IT operations from the USA to India and China, Ed Sim says that its just better to find opportunities that leverage the Internet and take advantage of the global talent pool to subcontract most of the work instead. This is to avoid instances where you might just have to move back your operations to USA again (think AT&T). He also recommends an emphasis on education as a key factor in maintaining (US) competitiveness in the years to come.