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Companies have been burned by outsourcing production to India where they didn’t get the quality they wanted and cultural differences are difficult. However, com
by Mediterraneo10 9y ago
Companies have been burned by outsourcing production to India where they didn’t get the quality they wanted and cultural differences are difficult. However, companies have gradually had more and more countries to outsource to, and Eastern Europe with its large young, “westernized” or “americanized”, well-educated and English-speaking population is, if anything, more and more popular for companies looking to relocate production or acquire staff.
- acdha 9y agoI think you’re looking at the wrong factor — Eastern European outsourcing has plenty of the same failures, and for the same reasons. Most of the companies which jumped on outsourcing did so because their internal processes were failing and then spent the next few years learning that adding communications overhead and conflicting incentives doesn’t improve that situation. That’s a hard lesson for many companies since it means accepting that the root cause was management rather than the workers.