[CLUE-Talk] Where your job went...

[Kevin Cullis]

Jeff, 

The sad part is the typical thinking of PHBs: automate until you get rid
of people, not "how can I redeploy my IT workers to get even more
efficiency out of my business processes?"

However, the IT folks need to figure out where things are headed and
retool themselves so they don't get like the Luddites and become
LuddITes.

Kevin

Jeffery Cann wrote:
> 
> A few weeks ago, on clue-talk, we debated the future
> prospects of IT workers in the U.S.  Some folks
> suggested that jobs will be outsourced to other 'less
> expensive' countries such as India.
> 
> I suggested that efficiences in computers will remove
> jobs.  Anyway, I read this today in an airport and
> thought it was telling - software that resulted in a
> reduction of 30 tech workers to one half-timer:
> 
> "Autonomy has enabled employees of such megafirms as
> BP, General Electric and General Motors to retrieve
> information from their companies' mishmash of
> databases around the globe. By installing such
> software, GM was able to offer its employees easy
> access to each of its 700 intranets and thereby reduce
> the tech staff used to maintain these systems from 30
> full-time positions to one half-timer."
> 
> >From (page 3) of the 'Data Miners' article in Time
> magazine:
> http://www.time.com/time/globalbusiness/article/0,9171,1101021223-400017,00.html
> 
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