IBM To Help the Chinese Outsourcing Industry

Filed in archive Outsourcing Advisors on November 16, 2006

What better way to help a rising outsourcing destination by partnering up with a formidable company in the world of outsourcing and software?

IBM recently announced their tie-up with China's Ministry of Education. The tie-up aims to develop a tech and business services curriculum to be used in China's top universities and business schools. The services science curriculum would focus on case studies of real business and scientific programs and subjects like the following:
-computer science
-operations research
-industrial engineering
-management sciences

Sam Palmisano, the CEO for IBM remarked that this partnership would be able to strengthen their role as China's innovation partner. As for China, I think that this team up would really be good for China's outsourcing industry because it would be able to educate their graduates in such a way that would be able to handle the jobs needed in their growing outsourcing industry. Aside from teaching the necessary skills and knowledge regarding these tasks, a program focusing on the comprehension and use of the English language would be helpful.