Sunday, 2 November 2008

Offshoring to idiots!!!

the word sounds familiar to everyone and is the first word in the dictionary of innumerable IT proffessionals in india.
The trend raised the GDP of india , put us as one of the economies to watch out for in the world map. A bunch of enthusiastic and 'visionary' gentlemen such as NRN , Nandan , Premji ( The list goes on....) capitalised on this opportunity and built world class companies . i dont need to name them... Every one knows their success stories...
But the question here is does merely having the CEOs as visionaries really drive a company. the answer is a BIG NO. The culture has to transcend through the ranks of the company till the middle management level.
When offshoring was first started india attracted a lot of business beacuse of 3 main reasons.1. Cost Advantage2. The Time difference that can be used to an advantage 3. Abundance of talent
IMHO, as the industry grew , the so called upcoming visionaries ( the managers and the future could be bosses) got the whole idea of offshoring wrong. For them offshoring is primarily beacuse of cost advantage and nothing else.Period.
No one bothers about talent... I find every tom dick and harry, loitering around in some panchamirdam college ( need not be an engineering college also nowadays) hired and asked to sit and work on projects.. the only criteria that these people look at is the resource should be a human being. .. ( Ya off course Human's close friend monkeys are found in IT companies nowadays...)
talent is fine, being harsh on Idiots sometimes changes them and they can do the given work. but did any one think about Discipline. in my observation half the problems in companies are due to gross indiscipline and irresponsibility.
The office is supposed to start at 8:15 , The SEs( whom i call the labourers of this industry) turn up at 10:30 and their great managers at 11:30. the reason they say , we want more interaction with the team at client site. Utter nonsense!!!
My question is , bossss where are you using the time difference that you have got to your advantage .. if you are working for UK as i did, you have wasted half of the productive time that you need to use. There is a myth that is floating around the industry ' A person who works late is the best employee' , and these so-called dumb VISIONARY managers propogate this idea by all means. first of all you are useless, and then you make your juniors worthless. I have just spoken of two levels and this is the result of having indisciplined people on your ranks. Imagine the situation of this comapny after 5 years when these 2 levels have grduated.. Gosh!!!!!! utter disaster???
Say for eg a Company mite have to change its tagline - POWERED BY IDIOTS , DRIVEN BY INDISCIPLINE.
Now you mite be thinking why am i blabering so much about this? My old company is on the verge of losing ' a Goose that laid 2 golden eggs every day'. And the reason why it has fallen is primarily because of the above stated reason.
Its not late ...anyways you cannot save this one, but in future you can save other accounts from falling. There is only sone solution..
There are a lot of Dumb people around in the middle management. Send all of them home .. Give them a retirement and clean up the mess a bit.. you will be fine..
I can help you out on this .. Employ me as a consultant. I can prepare a strategy for this :D !!!

1 comment:

Atul said...

Every other company is CMM level 5 company and claims to have a matured processes in place. That’s fine. But the problem is with fire fighting mode. Every one want to finish there current project anyhow and keeping all CMM level 5 fundas for next project.