Friday, April 6, 2007

Offshoring the Corner Office ???

The link below leads you to an excellent article. It explains how Globalization is creating a shift in the country from which senior management operates

http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/8834573?f=related

Though the article discusses the phenomenon of senior management team operating in different locations to capitalize on business opportunites, the idea of moving decision making jobs to low-cost locations is increasingly debated in mainstream media.

George David, Chairman of United Technologies, a Fortune 50 company, had earned $88 million in compensation in 2005. He had jokingly suggested outsourcing his own job to India.

The advent of KPO as a business model has increasingly made analytics based decision making "outsourceable". Technology has reduced distance. Travel has become faster and easier.

In such a scenario, it may not be long before boards demand outsourcing management jobs to the country with a vast pool of high quality managers - India.

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