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[[User:kirkal|Kiran Kalyan]] | [[User:kirkal|Kiran Kalyan]] | ||
er...i don't know if this is the right page to start this discussion...but i couldn't find a separate page for the "Outsourcing" section of today's lecture. First off, the Professor made a great presentation and the Q&A session after that was quite interesting,too. One major issue on which I disagree,though, is his assertion of the differences in productivity between the United States and India. What was he using to measure this productivity? Which time period was this measurement based on? For such a direct comparison, I would think that conditions of work would have to be nearly identical. In such a situation, I assert that India's productivity may be as low as 1/5 that of the US(on an average, lets say 1/3) but not as low as indicated on the slides,especially for a job like data entry. Biotech research - its possible , mainly due to lack of infrastructue but not for data entry. I wish we were given the source and methodology of these comparisons during the lecture itself. Howeve, most of the points he made rang very true, especially the parts about supporting outsourcing in order to build on world trade and actually attract more business Stateside.Nice! | er...i don't know if this is the right page to start this discussion...but i couldn't find a separate page for the "Outsourcing" section of today's lecture. First off, the Professor made a great presentation and the Q&A session after that was quite interesting,too. One major issue on which I disagree,though, is his assertion of the differences in productivity between the United States and India. What was he using to measure this productivity? Which time period was this measurement based on? For such a direct comparison, I would think that conditions of work would have to be nearly identical. In such a situation, I assert that India's productivity may be as low as 1/5 that of the US(on an average, lets say 1/3) but not as low as indicated on the slides,especially for a job like data entry. Biotech research - its possible , mainly due to lack of infrastructue but not for data entry. I wish we were given the source and methodology of these comparisons during the lecture itself. Howeve, most of the points he made rang very true, especially the parts about supporting outsourcing in order to build on world trade and actually attract more business Stateside.Nice! | ||
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[[Tedz|Ted Zuvich]]: I don't think he was trying to say that the ratio was actually 1:5 (although I would also like to see the sources). I think the point was that it was different, and probably smaller. | [[Tedz|Ted Zuvich]]: I don't think he was trying to say that the ratio was actually 1:5 (although I would also like to see the sources). I think the point was that it was different, and probably smaller. | ||
Sounds like he is convinced that outsourcing is going to happen, and that you (as an IT professional) had better be ready for it. | Sounds like he is convinced that outsourcing is going to happen, and that you (as an IT professional) had better be ready for it. | ||
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| + | [[User:Wduhon|Walker]] : The numbers he gave in the lecture were arbitrary and just given to illustrate the concept of comparative advantage. It is unlikely that the U.S. really has any significant productivity advantage in an activity like "data entry", but to illustrate the larger point he threw out some numbers. | ||
Revision as of 21:26, 4 December 2004
U.S./India relative productivity
Kiran Kalyan er...i don't know if this is the right page to start this discussion...but i couldn't find a separate page for the "Outsourcing" section of today's lecture. First off, the Professor made a great presentation and the Q&A session after that was quite interesting,too. One major issue on which I disagree,though, is his assertion of the differences in productivity between the United States and India. What was he using to measure this productivity? Which time period was this measurement based on? For such a direct comparison, I would think that conditions of work would have to be nearly identical. In such a situation, I assert that India's productivity may be as low as 1/5 that of the US(on an average, lets say 1/3) but not as low as indicated on the slides,especially for a job like data entry. Biotech research - its possible , mainly due to lack of infrastructue but not for data entry. I wish we were given the source and methodology of these comparisons during the lecture itself. Howeve, most of the points he made rang very true, especially the parts about supporting outsourcing in order to build on world trade and actually attract more business Stateside.Nice!
Ted Zuvich: I don't think he was trying to say that the ratio was actually 1:5 (although I would also like to see the sources). I think the point was that it was different, and probably smaller. Sounds like he is convinced that outsourcing is going to happen, and that you (as an IT professional) had better be ready for it.
Walker : The numbers he gave in the lecture were arbitrary and just given to illustrate the concept of comparative advantage. It is unlikely that the U.S. really has any significant productivity advantage in an activity like "data entry", but to illustrate the larger point he threw out some numbers.
