Host: The Japan Society for Management Information
Even though I had worked in IT for almost five years, I consistently had trouble coordinating work with offshore resources in India. Deliveries were late, and what was delivered was often quite different from what had been originally agreed. My being Indian seemed to have no positive effect either. And when I spoke to a senior friend he explained it as - “Even though the people we co-ordinate with offshore are manager level, the skills required to be a manager are different." I found this interesting and decided to see what exactly it was that made a good offshore manager.
