Is outsourcing the cause of RBS debacle?

[Robinho]

Well they obviously taught you Keynesian and not Austrian.

[darmstadt]

Surely the decisions made to use outsourcing need to be looked at in order to determine if outsourcing was the problem. It then has to be determined if checks were made to see if the company outsourced too were competent to provide the required services. If not then those who cleared the way for outsourcing need to be investigated to see why they made that decision so basically in the end it comes back around to the company possibly making a bad business decision.

[d000hg]

What and give UK businesses a competitive disadvantage because they have to employ more expensive contractors?

UK businesses don't have to employ overly expensive contractors in the first place.

Thing about bobs is that a good percentage of them are very sneeky and devious.

But not bitter, miserable alcoholics at least

[eek]

UK businesses don't have to employ overly expensive contractors in the first place.

But not bitter, miserable alcoholics at least

Contractors are cheaper than outsourcing. The former require management while the latter involves writing cheques (and probably panicking as the outsourcing stories / disasters start appearing in the news).

[The Spartan]

And me, in other countries I always send my moolah back home.

I remember the fun we had waiting for exchange rate spikes to IBAN our cash home.

Same here and I tend to spend my money in the UK and then pick up my goods when I come home for a weekend

[Scoobos]

Surely the decisions made to use outsourcing need to be looked at in order to determine if outsourcing was the problem. It then has to be determined if checks were made to see if the company outsourced too were competent to provide the required services. If not then those who cleared the way for outsourcing need to be investigated to see why they made that decision so basically in the end it comes back around to the company possibly making a bad business decision.

WHS , problem is we need regulatory bodies and that's a naughty word nowadays.

[ChimpMaster]

This is the first time I've worked with offshored resource but I personally haven't seen any problems yet. We are only three weeks into the build, but so far my offshore dev team has been really enthusiastic and keen to learn. Surely technology is technology whether you are sitting at a desk in Manchester or Chennai!

"three weeks into the build"

"keen to learn"

"haven't seen any problems yet"

"Manchester"

[mos]

"three weeks into the build"

"keen to learn"

"haven't seen any problems yet"

"Manchester"

Yeap, just set the expectations right.

[Basil Fawlty]

"three weeks into the build"

"keen to learn"

"haven't seen any problems yet"

"Manchester"

Interestingly I've been winding some of our Bobs up about how rubbish they are at the Olympics - 1 billion people and 3 medals ?? Anyway they're response was that it's frowned upon for youngsters to play sport as mum and dad think they should spend all day & night studying.

Given that it's fairly well proven that kids who do participate in sport grow up to be more well rounded individuals (premiership footballers excepted), I wonder if this goes some way to explaining why they're all cr@p at IT ?

Anyway that's enough bag of a fag packet social analysis for one day...time for a coffee...