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July 5, 2005
New TDAN Article on Globalization
Title: Globalization is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Recently, I had the opportunity to provide a metadata tutorial to an academic conference where the welcome speech touched on the impact of globalization. The speaker indicated that the erosion of jobs within the Information Technology community could be fixed by simply increasing the supply and quality of students within computer science or any related field. Fueling this perception are article after article telling us the same thing.
The economic rise of Asias giants is the most important story of our age. It heralds the end, in the not too distant future, of as much as five centuries of domination by the Europeans and their colonial offshoots - Martin Wolf (Financial Times)
There is no job that is Americas God-given right anymore. - Carly Fiorina (HP)
Currently, India is becoming the back office of the world. Everest estimates companies all over the globe are sending as much as $5 billion in work to Indian outsourcing service providers. But all the headlines about the Indian success story are obscuring a development that can have just as much impact. I predict China will be the next big wave in offshore outsourcing. – Todd Furnis
Income Confers No Immunity as Jobs Migrate – USA Today
The world has arrived at a rare strategic inflection point where nearly half its population—living in China, India and Russia—have been integrated into the global market economy, many of them highly educated workers, who can do just about any job in the world. We’re talking about three billion people. – Craig Barrett (Intel)
Posted by Todd at July 5, 2005 5:09 PM