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Deciding to stay home; Compuware's chief sees outsourcing as an incentive.(News)
Crain's Detroit Business, June, 2004
Byline: Andrew Dietderich While some view offshore outsourcing as a way to save money and others as the whipping boy for the destruction of American jobs, Peter Karmanos Jr. looks at it another way: an incentive to get better. So says the chairman and CEO of Michigan's largest tech company, Detroit-based Compuware Corp.
(Nasdaq: CPWR). By not shipping jobs overseas, he said, Compuware employees have no choice but to develop better products, provide better service and, in the process, slug it out every day with companies offering the much-hyped offshore outsourcing, the process of sending work to countries like India, where talent levels are high and pay is low. "I'm not interested in supplemental staffing. I'm not interested in being the cheapest...
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