A weblog that catalogs what's shaping the thinking at the DSB Policy Institute.

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

When a lot of DSBPI subscribers were in school, they were told to be Computer Science majors. That "learning computahs" was the path to the pot of gold at the end of the whatever. That English, Philosophy, Psychology - the soft subjects - promised little.

It is clear, now, however that in a globalizing economy, those with technical, "hard" skills are the first to be offshored and outsourced out of a job, while those with "soft" managerial, sales and communication skills are increasingly needed to manage the outsourcing.

Someone can program J2EE in China for $1500 a year, but that person doesn't have the skills to sell his software application to the CIO of Wells Fargo.

Yet.

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