The Offshoring Of Engineering

Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309114837
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Offshoring of Engineering written by National Academy of Engineering and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The engineering enterprise is a pillar of U.S. national and homeland security, economic vitality, and innovation. But many engineering tasks can now be performed anywhere in the world. The emergence of "offshoring"- the transfer of work from the United States to affiliated and unaffiliated entities abroad - has raised concerns about the impacts of globalization. The Offshoring of Engineering helps to answer many questions about the scope, composition, and motivation for offshoring and considers the implications for the future of U.S. engineering practice, labor markets, education, and research. This book examines trends and impacts from a broad perspective and in six specific industries - software, semiconductors, personal computer manufacturing, construction engineering and services, automobiles, and pharmaceuticals. The Offshoring of Engineering will be of great interest to engineers, engineering professors and deans, and policy makers, as well as people outside the engineering community who are concerned with sustaining and strengthening U.S. engineering capabilities in support of homeland security, economic vitality, and innovation.

Author : Erran Carmel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139444507
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offshoring Information Technology written by Erran Carmel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decision to source software development to an overseas firm (offshoring) is looked at frequently in simple economic terms - it's cheaper, and skilled labor is easier to find. In practice, however, offshoring is fraught with difficulties. As well as the considerable challenge of controlling projects at a distance, there are differences in culture, language, business methods, politics, and many other issues to contend with. Nevertheless, as many firms have discovered, the benefits of getting it right are too great to ignore. This book explains everything you need to know to put offshoring into practice, avoid the pitfalls, and develop effective working relationships. It covers a comprehensive range of the important offshoring issues: from ROI to strategy, from SLA to culture, from country comparisons to provider marketing. Written for CTOs, CIOs, consultants, and other IT executives, this book is also an excellent introduction to sourcing for business students.

Author : Gupta, Amar
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599049732
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsourcing and Offshoring of Professional Services: Business Optimization in a Global Economy written by Gupta, Amar and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book discusses the considerations and implications surrounding the outsourcing and offshoring of professional services, such as software development computer-aided design, and healthcare, from multiple global perspectives. This book, offers industry professionals, policymakers, students, and educators with a balance between a broad overview and detailed analysis of offshore outsourcing, would make an invaluable addition to any reference library"--Provided by publisher.

Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309091624
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Engineer of 2020 written by National Academy of Engineering and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-06-14 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To enhance the nation's economic productivity and improve the quality of life worldwide, engineering education in the United States must anticipate and adapt to the dramatic changes of engineering practice. The Engineer of 2020 urges the engineering profession to recognize what engineers can build for the future through a wide range of leadership roles in industry, government, and academia-not just through technical jobs. Engineering schools should attract the best and brightest students and be open to new teaching and training approaches. With the appropriate education and training, the engineer of the future will be called upon to become a leader not only in business but also in nonprofit and government sectors. The book finds that the next several decades will offer more opportunities for engineers, with exciting possibilities expected from nanotechnology, information technology, and bioengineering. Other engineering applications, such as transgenic food, technologies that affect personal privacy, and nuclear technologies, raise complex social and ethical challenges. Future engineers must be prepared to help the public consider and resolve these dilemmas along with challenges that will arise from new global competition, requiring thoughtful and concerted action if engineering in the United States is to retain its vibrancy and strength.

Author : Kehal, Harbhajan
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1591408776
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsourcing and Offshoring in the 21st Century: A Socio-Economic Perspective written by Kehal, Harbhajan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book discusses the economic impacts of outsourcing and off shoring to the developing countries and developed countries and the short term and long term implications"--Provided by publisher.

Author : John Urry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745684629
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offshoring written by John Urry and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies. These often secretive activities offshore also involve relations of work, finance, pleasure, waste, energy and security. Powerful and pervasive offshore worlds have been generated, posing huge challenges both for governments and for citizens. This book documents the various patterns of offshoring Ð of the economy, sociability, politics and the environment. In each case, offshoring generates new patterns of power, reduces the responsibilities of the powerful 'offshore class', and limits the conditions for democratic governance. Offshore, out of sight, over the horizon are some of the troubling processes and metaphors by which much life has been rendered opaque and dependent upon secrets and lies. By analysing these patterns and processes, Urry sheds fresh light on the hidden worlds of offshoring and exposes the dark side of globalization. The book concludes by considering whether offshoring can be reversed Ð whether it is possible to bring about the systematic ‘reshoring’ of relations that would be good for democracy and for developing low-carbon futures. Urry portrays the coming century as being poised between even more extreme offshoring and various endeavours to bring back 'home' that which has currently escaped 'over the horizon'.

Author : Mohamed A. El-Reedy
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0323899986
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offshore Projects and Engineering Management written by Mohamed A. El-Reedy and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offshore Projects and Engineering Management delivers a critical training tool for engineers on how to prepare cost estimates and understand the most recent management methods. Specific to the oil and gas offshore industry, the reference dives into project economics, interface management and contracts. Methods for analyzing risk, activity calculations and risk response strategies are covered for offshore, FPSO and pipelines. Supported with case studies, detailed discussions, and practical applications, this comprehensive book gives oil and gas managers a management toolbox to extend asset life, reduce costs and minimalize impact to personnel and environment. Oil and gas assets are under constant pressure and engineers and managers need engineering management training and strategies to ensure their operations are safe and cost effective. This book helps manage the ramp up to the management of offshore structures. Discusses engineering management for new and existing offshore platforms, including FPSOs and subsea pipelines Presents everything a reader needs to understand the most recent PMP modules and management methods Provides the best tools, tactics and forms through several practical case studies

Author : Roger Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031533852
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Data and Data Science Engineering written by Roger Lee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yuhua Luo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331910831X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering written by Yuhua Luo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering, CDVE 2014, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in September 2014. The 33 full and 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers cover topics such as cloud technology; the use of cloud for manufacturing, re-source selection, service evaluation, and control; methods for processing and visualizing big data created by the social media, such as Twitter and Facebook; real-time data about human interaction; sentiment analysis; trend analysis; location-based crowdsourcing; effective teamwork; cooperative visualization.

Author : Hitoshi Hirakawa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 4431556303
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovative ICT Industrial Architecture in East Asia written by Hitoshi Hirakawa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to shed light on the potentially innovative ICT (information and communication technology) architectures from an East Asian regional perspective. The business environment brought about by the development of ICT intensified global competition and caused dramatic changes in the industrial architecture. Firms that are involved in manufacturing and maintenance of ICT hardware and that offer services for software development are continuously being created, giving rise to the provision of new and diverse services to an increasingly growing East Asian regional market. Such industrial activities are advancing the shift from an old to a new industrial architecture. Some parts of emerging economies have grasped this edge on economic globalization and informatization and have adopted business models that enable them to enter the world economy. Entering this century, China, the Philippines, and Vietnam in East Asia have been rapidly expanding their ICT-BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) businesses as destinations of offshoring of service activities by firms in the advanced economies, following India’s example. Policy makers and firms in those countries are also meeting the challenge of catching up with advanced economies through the development of such industries. It has enabled those economies to exploit new possibilities of further development, which may mean a new stage of manufacturing cum services in an ICT- and knowledge-based economy.