Outsourcing and Offshoring: The New IS Paradigm?

Now that the political season is over, and we have fewer politicians trying to create fears of lost jobs and "Benedict Arnold CEOs," we need to sit back and calmly reflect on what the impact of the continuing offshoring growth on IT employment and I education will be. It is clear to me that traditional low and mid level IT jobs will continue to migrate away from the US. Thus, the decades of growth that IT employment and education have enjoyed will transform into a period of absolute decline in some segments of IT. But, all is not lost. Indeed, this scenario has its positive aspects, as we can no longer treat outsourcing and offshoring as intellectual "poor cousins." These topics must become central to IS both in practice and in IS education.