General Motors Chief Information Officer Randy Mott is “re-balancing” information technology where most IT work is done by GM employees instead of outsourced.
General Motors will hire 1,000 computer programmers to staff a new Information Technology office near Atlanta, Georgia. The automaker says it needs software developers, project managers, database experts, business analysts and other IT professionals for the third of four centers in the United States as it is bringing its systems in house after several decades of outsourcing.
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GM already has hired more than 700 IT specialists to work at the Innovation Centers in Austin, Texas, and Warren, Michigan. The Atlanta Innovation Center will be located in Roswell, a northern suburb of Atlanta.
GM Chief Information Officer Randy Mott is leading a “re-balancing” of information technology at GM under which the majority of IT work will be done by GM employees instead of being outsourced.
“We look to design and deliver IT that drives down the cost of ongoing operations while continuously increasing the level and speed at which innovative products and services are available to GM customers,” Mott claimed.
The location of the fourth GM IT site will be announced later.
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