ITBusiness.ca | Invasion of the Job Snatchers
"The company discussed in the article referred to this practice as "knowledge acquisition," but it might better have been called knowledge liquidation. Of course, many IT professionals who want to put off their date at the unemployment line may have no choice but to prolong their departure in this fashion. There's no question that offshore outsourcing is on the rise, as we recently noted in an ITBusiness.ca special report by John Lee. As the word acquisition suggests, the transition will open up whole new areas of potential conflict around corporate culture, security and resource planning. In other words, all the things we try to capture through knowledge management."
K-Collector