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Offshore sourcing of IT work is increasingly occupying the attention of IT managers in US-based firms. The term “offshore sourcing” includes both offshore outsourcing to a third-party provider as well as offshore insourcing to an internal group within a global corporation. Note the experiences of three major global US corporations, General Electric (GE), Intel, and Ford:

• GE may be the largest American customer of offshore IT work. GE now has some 7,000 software professionals offshore, responsible for a wide variety of IT functions. In 2000, GE performed $280 million of IT work in India, increasing to $400 million in 2001. While most of GE’s offshore work is performed in India, the firm also has two offshore development centers in Mexico and recently opened a center in China.