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Here is the premiss that this thread is based on (or at least what I hope for): That businesses whether large or small, public or private, well funded or not, are currently grappling with the issues of integrating technology. In all cases they face the fact that technology-related innovation tends to be adopted in a patchy fashion by an untrained or poorly trained staff. In addition, regardless of the level of resources available, those resources that do exist tend to be severely underutilized, or at least not utilized in the most effective ways. That is why I was wondering what you guys thought about the Perfect IT course design.

Bank of America forced almost every American IT employee to train their Indian replacements by threatening them with the loss of their severance pay. They were then summarily fired. Someone I know in BofA said that he has been letting excellent IT programmers go every week. He was told 5 or 6 a week, not en masse.
You are the first to suggest, to my knowledge, that there is a quality problem with our IT programmers. There may be some inexperienced raw recruits that fit this description. But, that has NOTHING to do with the loss of jobs in IT.
Sun Microsystems fired all of their older and most experienced software engineers and replaced every one with young Indian H1B visa workers. Siemens did they same. There is a growing list of examples and no one has even hinted that the problem is with the quality of work.
Everyone in Silicon Valley was known for working tons of unpaid overtime. The American work ethic is not too blame either.