February 11th, 2008

It Outsourcing - Prospects In Albania

In 1992, Edward Yourdon had written in his book Decline and Fall of the American Programmer [1], which predicted that U.S.-based computer programmers would suffer the fate of the dodo bird by the end of the decade. This prediction seems to be true to a certain extent.

In this age of globalization, off shore IT (Information Technology) outsourcing is playing an important role in the growth of economy of developing countries like Albania and India. In offshore IT outsourcing, the core competencies are handled by the host company itself, while it outsources the non-core competency activities to other countries especially developing countries that enjoy a labor costs’ comparative advantage, without compromising the quality of labor.


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