According to an InfoWorld article written by John Ribeiro, IDG News Service, Cutter Consortium's Edward Yourdon's New book says training can counter offshoring.
An excerpt:
...In Yourdon's new book "Outsource: Competing in the Global Productivity Race," the new threat is not only to U.S. software development jobs but to all kinds of knowledge work ranging from call centers and help desk operations to legal services, and clinical research operations in the pharmaceutical industry.
Knowledge work of all kinds is more and more likely to be a global commodity, and companies striving to compete in a global economy will continue looking for opportunities to use the lowest cost, highest quality providers of products and services, wherever they may be located, according to Yourdon...
K-Collector Topics: 50 Books knowledge work Outsourcing Productivity research