This is anecdotal, of course, so of limited value, but the outsourcing projects that I've seen be successful were the ones where some local expertise was retained. The net was that the gruntwork was what was outsourced; the corporate knowledge remained.
Alas, these seem to be the exception. Far more common is RIFfing the people who know where the bodies are buried, with the expected resulting hilarity. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Harsh, but on target. I now delete posts in both threads based on subject > alone. > > . > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-302-7535 Office > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 10:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: (External):Re: Outsourcing Stories Good or Bad! > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:31:14 +0000, Mark Wilson wrote: > > >I am working with a client in Europe that is being requested by his > >senior management team to look at outsourcing their IT systems, > >including their system z platform. > > > >Would anyone be willing to share any war stories of their experiences > >with Outsourcing good or bad? > > There has been considerable evidence of outsourcing to incompetent > companies on IBM-Main lately. They don't say that they are outsourcers, but > in the last few days there have been threads from people who hadn't a clue > what they were doing. My guess is that they are outsourcers. Two that come > to mind are the thread on a DASD device not going offline, and one about > Applying a PTF to > DB2 10. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
