"Change Management" (trans. "outsourcing")

[displacedtexan]

This is what we're up against, folks!


IT Outsourcing Architect
Job ID 7345
Position Type Full-Time Employee
Company Name BearingPoint
Location Mc Lean, VA
Salary Unspecified
Date Posted February 27, 2004
Experience Mid to Senior Level

Description:
The IT Outsourcing Architect role requires experience in technical, operational, procedural, and change management disciplines coupled with the ability to act in a pre-sales or consultative role. This individual will interface with other members of the architecture team, as well as potential or existing clients, to provide a holistic view of the scope and costs of moving a potential client to an IT outsourced model.

Responsibilities:
The IT Outsourcing Architect is responsible for identifying, defining, and scoping, outsourcing requirements related to BearingPoint responses to RFI's, RFP's, and proposals.

Articulate and differentiate financial, technical, and business value achieved by outsourcing major functions or entire IT functionand demonstrate the ability to understand and process detailed technical discussions, presenting that information in simplified, business-oriented terms.

Understand and identify underlying business assumptions being used by a prospective client to ensure they are in-line with outsourcing goals (e.g. ROI, capital investments, service levels, headcount)

Manage organizational changes required to function smoothly during transitional period to outsourced model.

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[marie123]

1. this will never change

it doesn't matter who gets elected in November, so we must deal with it.

I am IT and I am getting lay ed off, the question is will it be June sept or DEC of this year.

I am going into the health care field. There are multiple certificate schools, for LPN/RN medical assistant medical billing etc...

I cant cry or whine about what is happening to us, I need to pay too many bills. I need to have my sons finish school. If you think elected Kerry will stop this, you are living in a dream world.

I am going to where the jobs are plentiful and it is not burger king for me

[area51]

8. Unfortunately,

management can bring in foreign workers & screw American healthcare workers out of jobs. No job is safe.

[JoeMemphis]

2. What can the Dems do about this?

I'm not sure that protectionist measures really will serve our interest, because businesses that can't outsource will probably just relocate overseas entirely and take more jobs with it.

I think the answer, whether we like it or not, will be actually more libertarian in nature. The best solution may be just to knock down our trading partners' trade barriers (why do we let them keep theirs up while we take ours down?), stand up to China on currency valuation, and permit free movement of goods, service, *and* workers among us and our trading partners. That may be just the way to encourage more economic activity.

[Walt Starr]

3. There is only one way to stop the outsourcing

The American People must refuse to ever buy anything from companies that do it. If the American Public's buying power is not brought to bear on the situation, it will continue ad infinitum.

[marie123]

5. walt starr

you are so correct!

All we would have to do is refuse to buy. Not for a long time just a bit of time. Enough to hurt them in their pockets.

Why are we not doing this? It would be so simple, it takes no physcial energy

[Hammie]

7. I disagree

Prior to the income tax, the Federal govt. got most of its revenue from tarrifs. I think we should return to that model. Fund the Federal govt. with a flat tax on imports. It will protect American jobs and get rid of the income tax.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Change Management is not a euphemism for outsourcing

it's a recognised term in IT for the process of implementing any change - upgrades to procedures, new function, moving to different hardware, etc. While this would obviously be needed in outsourcing, don't assume that outsourcing is involved every time you see it. If Windows asks you to reboot your machine after you've installed software, that's change management.

[rocktivity]

6. I applied to a job at Bearing Point in New Jersey less than 2 hours ago

:headbang:
rocknation

[GuyFawkes]

9. Why are we still importing H1B's?

There is not now, there never was, a shortage of IT talent in this country. Goodnes knows, we got to 1996 or so without having any H1B presence. We created IBM, DEC, Sperry, Intel, Microsoft, Nasa, Oracle,.....etc. without having to import foreigners. Yet suddenly around 1996, a "shortage" was discovered.

We all know business wants workers cheap and pliable (H1B's are tied to the jobs, just like Russian serfs), we know that the Republicans cater to business.

But what has a single Democrat done to stop this abuse. Americans are being fired from their jobs, and contracting companies come in, loaded up with H1B's and take over the work. And Democrats say nothing about this. Democrats are terrified of alienating any supposed ethnic constituence (in this case Indians). But I don't care. I have a right to expect that my lawmakers look out for my interests.

Do you agree?

[Tinoire]

10. Please first tell me what the Republicans have done.

I'd be fascinated to hear your take.