BusinessWeek Hails IBM's Offshoring Efforts

theodp writes "While Robert X. Cringely calls IBM the poster child for bad management, BusinessWeek praises IBM's recent hiring of 90,000 people in low-cost countries. Key to the success of assigning jobs to the lowest-cost workers — 'the right talent in the right place' as BW puts it — is software like Big Blue's patent-pending Electronic Marketplace for Identifying, Assessing, Reserving and Engaging Knowledge-Workers for an Assignment Using Trade-Off Analysis."