How information technology professionals keep from being outsourced or offshored

This paper introduces the concept of the “vendible line” partitioning jobs in a company into those that are likely to be lost to outsourcing (onshore or offshore) and those that are not likely to be lost. Using this concept, we identify the critical professional skills IT graduates must have to maximize their ability to stay above the vendible line and be immune to such job loss. We then suggest changes to the proposed accreditation standard for IT being synthesized by SIGITE. Suggested changes include the addition of communication, management, and security courses. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.3.2 [Computer and Information Science Education]: accreditation, computer science education, curriculum, information science education. General Terms Management, Human Factors, Standardization. Keywords Outsourcing, offshoring, near shoring, IT curriculum design

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SIGITE
• Authors: Ron Fulbright, Richard L. Routh
• Keywords: Information Science Education, Science Education, SIGITE 2004, Vendible Line