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To: 9YearLurker
“Global Services is IBM’s business now and they are struggling to renew their major contracts because their offshore competitors are now viable on that scale and can usually deliver high customer satisfaction, so IBM can’t renew their contracts at their current pricing structures and they have to find savings in their delivery.”

They just lost some major contracts due to unresponsiveness and poor service. They shifted the customers call centers offshore and they were getting huge complaints not to mention they cut staff until they couldn't keep up with the work.

35 posted on 04/29/2012 8:49:00 AM PDT by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: dljordan

As I said, “the inefficient layers of administrative overhead and effective management of offshore delivery are more of issue than their shifting to a higher ratio of offshore labor”.

They’re losing business to companies with higher percentages of offshore workers: IBM’s problem isn’t too much offshoring, it is poor management, including management of their offshoring.


76 posted on 04/29/2012 12:04:28 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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