project LEAN
project LEAN
Date: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:11 AM
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According the American Electronics Association the news couldn't be better
for engineers and computer programmers. Wages are up, unemployment is down,
jobs are plentiful, and opportunities abound as high-tech industries just
can't find enough qualified and educated workers. For those of want to read
more good news from the AeA you can buy their entire AeA report for only
$250! The report is free for newspaper journalists which is probably one of
the reasons you see it quoted everywhere.
Here are some highlights of the good news for the few of you that can't
afford to buy the AeA report:
* The high-tech industry added nearly 150,000 net jobs for a total of 5.8
million jobs in the U.S.
* This growth is faster than the 87,400 jobs added in 2005, and these two
years of growth represent an increase of 4%.
* The average tech industry wage is 86% more than the average U.S. private
sector wage.
* 2.5% unemployment rate for computer scientists and the below 2%
unemployment rate for engineers in 2006
* Companies of all sizes continue to have problems recruiting highly
qualified and educated individuals to work for them, whether those
individuals are foreign or domestic.
Before you go off and celebrate this positive news by buying expensive
cars, big screen TVs, and other luxury items, perhaps you should know about
IBM's project LEAN. Rumors have it that by the end of 2007, IBM intends to
ax more than 100,000 U.S. employees. Personally I think the 100,000 number
is just a rumor that is being used to pump up stock prices but I found two
factoids that definitely aren't rumors:
Factoid #1: IBM's Global Services has just fired over 1,000 U.S. employees.
Factoid #2: IBM's Global Services just announced the opening up a new
facility in Chennai, India that will eventually employ up to 3,000
employees.
It's rather obvious what's going on -- IBM is replacing Americans in the
USA with Indians in India. It's not clear how many IBMers will lose their
jobs by the end of 2007 but the number is likely to be very large.
IBM isn't the only one firing high-tech workers either. Intel announced
that they will terminate 1,000 employees in New Mexico. So far nobody in
the mainstream media has mentioned the obvious hypocrisy of both of these
companies as they routinely engage in shortage shouting and lobbying for
H-1B. Guess who are members of the AeA -- IBM and Intel! Both of these
companies are complain that that they can't find enough qualified American
workers while at the same time they are firing the ones they have.
Go to this page to see just one example how the AeA, IBM, and Intel work
together to lobby for more H-1Bs.
http://www.aeanet.org/GovernmentAffairs/JVicwKFtguljmYfLMIUyBJQxepDdTU.pdf
Materials Included
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_002027.html
Lean and Mean: 150,000 U.S. layoffs for IBM?
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/BUSINESS01/705010335
IBM confirms local layoffs
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070502/BUSINESS/705020301/1003&theme=
IBM layoffs include 7 Essex Jct. jobs
http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?leftnm=8&subLeft=2&chklogin=N&autono=282966&tab=r
IBM to open 4th facility in Chennai
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/61122.html
Intel's New Mexico work force to shrink
http://www.ere.net/inside-recruiting/news/layoffs-span-ibm-intel-180606.asp
Who's Hiring, Who's Firing, Layoffs Span IBM, Intel
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=15541
AeA Announces Job Growth Despite Decline In U.S. Competitiveness
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_002027.html
May 4, 2007
Lean and Mean: 150,000 U.S. layoffs for IBM?
Will IBM Global Services really layoff 100,000+ U.S. workers?
Read comments in the Pulpit Poll Opinion Cloud
Last year I wrote a series of columns on management problems at IBM Global
Services, explaining how the executive ranks from CEO Sam Palmisano on down
were losing touch with reality, bidding contracts too low to make a profit
then mismanaging them in an attempt to make a profit anyway, often to the
detriment of IBM customers. Those columns and the reaction they created
within the ranks at IBM showed just how bad things had become.
Well they just got worse.
This is according to my many friends at Big Blue, who believe they are
about to undergo the biggest restructuring of IBM since the Gerstner days,
only this time for all the wrong reasons.
The IBM project I am writing about is called LEAN and the first
manifestation of LEAN was this week's 1,300 layoffs at Global Services,
which generated almost no press. Thirteen hundred layoffs from a company
with more than 350,000 workers is nothing, so the yawning press reaction is
not unexpected. But this week's "job action," as they refer to it inside
IBM management, was as much as anything a rehearsal for what I understand
are another 100,000+ layoffs to follow, each dribbled out until some
reporter (that would be me) notices the growing trend, then dumped en masse
when the jig is up, but no later than the end of this year.
LEAN began last week with a 10-city planning meeting for Global Services,
which wasn't, by the way, to decide who gets the boot: those decisions were
apparently made weeks ago, though senior managers have been under orders to
keep the news from their affected employees.
If you work at IBM Global Services, ask your boss outright if you are on
the list to be fired. It puts the boss in a bind, sure, but might lead to a
sort of "Alice's Restaurant" effect in which hypocrisy is confronted and
exposed.
LEAN is about offshoring and outsourcing at a rate never seen before at
IBM. For two years Big Blue has been ramping up its operations in India and
China with what I have been told is the ultimate goal of laying off at
least one American worker for every overseas hire. The BIG PLAN is to
continue until at least half of Global Services, or about 150,000 workers,
have been cut from the U.S. division. Last week's LEAN meetings were quite
specifically to find and identify common and repetitive work now being done
that could be automated or moved offshore, and to find work Global Services
is doing that it should not be doing at all. This latter part is with the
idea that once extraneous work is eliminated, it will be easier to move the
rest offshore.
All this is supposed to happen by the end of 2007, by the way, at which
point IBM will also freeze its U.S. pension plan.
The point of this has nothing to do with the work itself and everything to
do with the price of IBM shares. Remove at least 100,000 heads, eliminate
the long-term drag of a defined-benefit pension plan, and the price of IBM
shares will soar. This is exactly the kind of story Wall Street loves to
hear. Palmisano and his lieutenants will retire rich. And not long after
that IBM's business will crash for reasons I explain below.
I am told there is a broad expectation at all levels of IBM familiar with
the LEAN plan that it will cause huge problems for the company. Even the
executives who support this campaign most strongly expect it to go down
poorly with employees and customers, alike. But in the end they don't care,
which shows that only the reaction of Wall Street matters anymore.
So we can expect round after round of layoffs, muted a bit -- as they were
back in the Gerstner days -- by some of those same people being hired back
as consultants at 75 percent of their former pay (50 percent of their
former cost to the company since they won't be getting benefits). Throw in
some overtime and it won't look bad on paper for the people, but it is also
very temporary.
Taking a pure business school approach to this news, it probably doesn't
look so bad for IBM. What's wrong with a multinational corporation moving
work to its own overseas divisions? Squint hard enough and it can even look
like good management. Global Services IS overweight and inefficient.
Something has to be done and the company has already considered (and
apparently rejected) a range of options, right up to putting Global
Services on the auction block.
The problem with LEAN is that offshoring on this scale creates huge
communications and logistical problems, doesn't generally improve customer
relations, and won't save money for years without the parallel gutting of
the pension plan.
And it is just plain mean.
This is a policy based on perception. Streamlining and downsizing look good
to customers unless it is their project that is being chopped, because
implicit in LEAN is that Global Services will be eliminating not just
employees but customers, too -- customers whose contracts were underbid and
whose projects may never be profitable for IBM. Maybe such axing of
customers is necessary, probably it is inevitable, but it hardly has a ring
of corporate honesty. Customers to be dropped haven't yet been notified,
either.
It is especially disconcerting for an action of this scale to take place at
a time when many companies (including IBM) are complaining about a shortage
of technical workers to justify a proposed expansion of H1B and other guest
worker visa programs. What's wrong with all those U.S. IBM engineers that
they can't fill the local technical labor demand? They can't be ALL bad:
after all, they were hired by IBM in the first place and retained for
years.
What is unstated in this H1B aspect of the story is not that technical
workers are unavailable but that CHEAP technical workers are unavailable.
Lopping off half the technical staff, as Global Services is apparently
about to do, will eliminate much of the company's traditional wisdom and
corporate memory in an act that some people might label as age
discrimination.
The worst part of all is that nobody at IBM I have talked to thinks this
can or will help the business. It will probably just speed up the death
spiral.
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http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/BUSINESS01/705010335
IBM confirms local layoffs By Craig Wolf
Poughkeepsie Journal
May 1, 2007
IBM Corp. confirmed this afternoon that 56 people working at the two sites
in Dutchess County were told today that their jobs are gone.
Spokesman Jeff Couture in Burlington, Vt., said the job cuts affected 45
people at the Poughkeepsie site and 11 at East Fishkill. Others across the
country are also involved, but he said he didn't have those numbers, other
than seven at Burlington.
But Lee Conrad, national organizer for the employee group, the
Alliance@IBM, a union group, said members had sent in paperwork issued by
IBM internally showing a major downsizing nationally.
Conrad said 1,315 people lost their jobs today.
"Job cuts are happening today around the country in IBM, primarily in
Global Services Integrated Technology Delivery," Conrad said.
The numbers given by IBM do not necessarily include contractors, so the
total job loss may be larger.
Conrad said other sites involved include Southbury, Conn.; Boulder, Colo.;
Lexington, Ky., and a number of remote employees who work from homes around
the country.
Mark Loughridge, chief financial officer of IBM, told brokerage analysts
April 17 that more downsizing would occur in this quarter, as has been
common in IBM practice. He said the cuts would come mainly in Global
Services, IBM's largest sector.
Reach Craig Wolf at cwolf@poughkeepsiejournal.com or 845-437-4815
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IBM layoffs include 7 Essex Jct. jobs
By Leslie Wright
Free Press Staff Writer
May 2, 2007
IBM cut seven jobs at its Essex Junction facility on Tuesday.
The move was part of a larger action that included more than 1,000 jobs
across the country. Company spokesman Jeff Couture characterized the cuts
in Essex Junction as part of periodic restructuring.
"I would call this part of the normal, ongoing balancing of resources that
happens at a company the size of IBM," Couture said.
A union representative called the cuts part of an ongoing shift of jobs
overseas.
Across the country, 1,315 workers were cut, according to Lee Conrad,
national coordinator for the Alliance at IBM union. IBM did not release a
number.
In addition to Essex Junction, 45 jobs were cut at IBM's Poughkeepsie,
N.Y., facility and 11 jobs were cut at IBM's East Fishkill, N.Y., plant,
Couture said. IBM employs 5,800 people in Essex Junction.
All workers were part of the company's Integrated Technology Delivery
organization, which is part of the Global Services division and provides
services and support to IBM's outsourcing business operations such as data
centers, Couture said.
Conrad said the move, which was expected, comes as IBM continues to shift
work overseas.
"IBM has been very clear they will be eliminating jobs in the United States
and shifting jobs to India and China and other low-cost countries," Conrad
said.
The Alliance at IBM is part of the Communications Workers of America and
has 6,000 members and associate members, Conrad said. Associate members do
not pay dues.
Workers in Essex were notified that their jobs would end in 30 days and
will receive a severance package that includes pay based on their length of
employment at IBM, and assistance with finding jobs and training, Couture
said.
IBM has 355,766 employees worldwide, and serves customers in 170 countries.
In the U.S. the company has 130,000 employees, Conrad said. IBM revenues in
2006 were $91.4 billion.
Contact Leslie Wright at 802-660-1841 or
lwright@bfp.burlingtonfreepress.com
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http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?leftnm=8&subLeft=2&chklogin=N&autono=282966&tab=r
IBM to open 4th facility in Chennai
Ravi Menon / Chennai May 01, 2007
International Business Machines (IBM) is set to open its next major
facility in Chennai. The approximately 3.75-lakh square feet centre,
currently under construction at the DLF IT park at Manapakkam in Chennai,
will be IBMs fourth facility in Chennai and is expected to be
operational by the end of June this year.
The facility, which will function as IBMs global services delivery
centre, will provide application development and delivery services for the
Armonk, New York-headquartered technology giants domestic and
international clients out of Chennai.
Industry sources added that IBMs employee headcount at the new centre
could well touch 1,700 to 2,000 employees by the middle of calendar 2009.
IBM has been keen to scale up its existing application delivery
capabilities out of Chennai through a fourth centre. The new application
delivery facility will have the capacity to house 3,000 employees. IBM as
well as long-term business partner TCS are presently undertaking fitout
activity at the DLF IT Park premises where their new leased facilities will
come up.
IBM has been planning a ramp-up in Chennai for its application development
and services delivery division, also called Global Delivery GBS, with its
announcement late last year that the new facility would be ready in the
beginning of 2007.
The companys increased thrust on services delivery out of India is in
keeping with IBM boss Sam Palmisanos avowed goal of moving more and more
away from its traditional commoditised hardware businesses into the
higher-margins application and services-centric business model over the
coming years.
The mega DLF IT park is planned over an area of 6 million square feet
spread over 41 acres, and all its eleven blocks are expected to be fully
operational for different company units by August this year. Security
solutions company Symantec had opened its research and development centre
at the park earlier this month.
IBM is currently in the process of conducting its Re-inventing
Education program with the Corporation of Chennai, to impart
professional development and training for teachers working in Corporation
schools within the city limits.
The company now has operations in 15 Indian cities, including Bangalore,
Chennai, New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, and a workforce of over 53,000
people.
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http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/61122.html
Intel's New Mexico work force to shrink
By THE NEW MEXICAN
May 2, 2007
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) _ Intel Corp. plans to cut more than 1,000 jobs at
its Rio Rancho plant's Fab 11 unit as the company stops producing an older
silicon wafer technology.
By the end of August, the plant will stop making 200-millimeter wafers that
have become obsolete, and affected employees either will be offered
severance packages or can search for other jobs within Intel, spokesman
Jami Grindatto said Tuesday.
The exact number of job cuts is unknown, he said. They will affect all
types of positions, from engineers to technicians.
The plant, which has operated in Rio Rancho for 27 years, currently employs
about 4,700 people.
The Rio Rancho plant's semiconductor fabrication facility, Fab 11X, will
focus on manufacturing 300-millimeter wafers that are in higher demand. Fab
11X began production in October 2002 and was Intel's first 300-millimeter
high-volume, fully automated manufacturing facility.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company announced in February that it was
investing $1 billion to $1.5 billion in the Rio Rancho site to retool Fab
11X to produce a next-generation 45 nanometer process.
Grindatto said market demand for products played a role in the job cuts,
but a more automated process also means fewer workers.
"We're able to produce more per employee," he said. "It's about how
innovative we are and how productive we can be."
Rio Rancho Mayor Kevin Jackson called Intel's announcement "unfortunate
news," but he said the city is slated to get more high tech, avionics and
film industry jobs in the future.
Noreen Scott, president of the Rio Rancho Economic Development Corp., said
other companies in the area, such as Eclipse Aviation, could absorb some of
the workers. She said the cuts are the largest she's seen since she began
working in the community in 1994.
Intel must downsize to remain competitive, Gov. Bill Richardson said
Tuesday.
He said New Mexico is in good shape to absorb workers displaced from Intel
because the manufacturing sector, particularly in the Albuquerque area, is
robust.
Grindatto said the company has kept workers informed as it moved toward
ending production at Fab 11 so they could plan for the job cuts.
Intel allows a two-month paid period for searching for another job, and
employees receive severance packages based on how long they have been with
the company.
Grindatto said some of the targeted employees have worked for the company
for 25 years, while others have just a year at the plant.
Intel announced a massive restructuring in September and said it would
eliminate 10,500 jobs systemwide _ about 10 percent of its work force _
through layoffs, attrition and the sale of underperforming business groups.
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http://www.ere.net/inside-recruiting/news/layoffs-span-ibm-intel-180606.asp
5/2/2007
Who's Hiring, Who's Firing, 1:06 p.m. PT
Layoffs Span IBM, Intel
It was a blue Tuesday for workers at both IBM and Intel, as they learned
they will face layoffs in the next few months.
IBM plans to eliminate about 1,300 positions, though an IBM spokesperson
declined confirmation of this number.
The Alliance at IBM, a union organization affiliated with the Communication
Workers of America, says it is trying to organize affected workers.
Lee Conrad, national coordinator of Alliance at IBM, explains that more job
cuts are coming.
"Maybe tomorrow, probably May through June. Our sources are telling us
8,000 to 10,000 workers, and probably Global Services will be the biggest
hit. What's driving this is offshoring," says Conrad.
He explains that his organization is working to expose the truth about
these layoffs to help to "get this out so there is transparency in job
cuts. What it means for the industry is you have a whole segment of IBM
workers whose morale is being trashed."
He adds, "Jobs are being offshored. We know there are good employees, but
if IBM can't treat them properly, then maybe someone else should."
According to Conrad, the workers can either find a similar job within IBM
or receive a severance package.
The Alliance at IBM say the cuts will include workers in Raleigh, North
Carolina, and at the New York headquarters, though other locations, such as
Poughkeepsie, New York, and Boulder, Colorado, may be affected.
"The 1,315 cuts are nationwide. We have received from employees the
'resource action' package. Every person selected for termination receives
this by law. It's the OWBPA, or the Older Worker Benefit Protection Act,"
says Conrad.
"It lists why the jobs are being eliminated, then breaks it down into
different segments of the unit, with occupational title, age of person
selected, and number of people within that. There are no names associated,
just ages and job titles. No one knows who's going until someone spills the
beans," he says.
Conrad says the internal memo lists the following specific work units
affected: Server Systems Operations; Technology Integration & Management;
Global Infrastructure & Resource Management; Americas Delivery Engagement
Support; Security, Asset and Risk Management Americas; Global Network
Services Delivery; Industrial Sector Delivery; Financial Services Sector
Delivery; Distribution Sector Delivery; Communications Sector Delivery; and
IBM Global Account Delivery.
Intel Shrinks in New Mexico
In other tech layoff news, starting this August, 1,000 or more workers will
be laid off from Intel's Rio Rancho, New Mexico plant. That facility
manufactures computer chips, and currently employs about 5,000 people.
An Intel spokesperson says affected employees will be offered severance
packages or can search for other jobs within Intel.
Most of the cuts will be at the "Fab 11" plant, affecting engineers and
technicians who make computer components using 200-millimeter silicon
wafers. Intel has said it plans to end production of this technology.
According to the company, the severance package includes time for service
worked or a two-month paid job-search period for jobs elsewhere within the
company.
Late last year, CEO Paul Otellini publicly stated his plans to shrink the
workforce from 102,000 to 92,000 and to make the company leaner.
In April, Intel announced its Q1 results, indicating that it had reached
its goal -- one quarter ahead of schedule -- of reducing the workforce to
approximately 92,000 people.
Elaine Rigoli
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http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=15541
AeA Announces Job Growth Despite Decline In U.S. Competitiveness
Sam Davis
ED Online ID #15541
May 7, 2007
Within a few days of each other, AeA (formerly the American Electronics
Association) released two reports -- one with good news and the other with
bad news. The good news is that the United States high-tech industry
followed 2005s turnaround with continued growth in 2006. The bad news is
that despite this growth, the U.S. is losing its ability to compete
globally.
The AeAs tenth anniversary Cyberstates report details job growth trends
in high-tech employment, wages, and other key economic factors. Cyberstates
2007: A Complete State-by-State Overview of the High-Technology Industry
covers all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico -- or 52
"cyberstates." And according to the report, the high-tech industry added
nearly 150,000 net jobs for a total of 5.8 million jobs in the U.S. This
growth is faster than the 87,400 jobs added in 2005, and these two years of
growth represent an increase of 4%.
The Cyberstates report is based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
data, which is collected from all businesses in the U.S. as required by law
for the state unemployment insurance program. The data on national
employment, unemployment, and venture capital investments are for 2006. The
national and state wage, payroll, and establishment data are for 2005, as
well as state rankings and state employment data, as a result of a
nine-month lag in the reporting of the data from BLS.
The average tech industry wage is 86% more than the average U.S. private
sector wage. In fact, the average high-tech wage is at least 50% more than
the average private sector wage in 48 cyberstates, and this differential is
over 90% in 10 cyberstates.
"While we are encouraged by the pickup in tech employment, we are committed
to the long-term health of the industry, the economy, and our nation," said
AEAs president and CEO, William T. Archey. "We have some serious
challenges ahead. Companies of all sizes continue to have problems
recruiting highly qualified and educated individuals to work for them,
whether those individuals are foreign or domestic. This was reflected in
the 2.5% unemployment rate for computer scientists and the below 2%
unemployment rate for engineers in 2006."
The AeA attributes this problem to two factors. First, not enough American
students are enrolling in and graduating from math, science, and
engineering programs. Second, the U.S. high-skilled visa system is broken.
Within two days of the start of taking applications this April, the U.S.
government received 133,000 applications for 65,000 H-1B visas, which are
reserved for high-skilled individuals, for jobs starting this October.
The high-tech manufacturing industry added 5100 net jobs in 2006. Software
services and engineering and tech services employment were up in 2006 for
the third year in a row, increasing by 88,500 jobs and 66,300 jobs,
respectively. Only the communications services industry continues to
struggle, losing 13,300 net jobs in 2006.
On a state-by-state basis, Cyberstates 2007 shows that tech employment
gains occurred in 40 cyberstates in 2005, the most recent data available.
The last year that so many states saw this much tech job growth was in
2000. While it is no surprise that California led the nation in net job
creation, Florida saw the second largest gain, adding 10,900 tech jobs in
2005. This is the second year in a row that Florida was among the top five
states by tech employment creation.
An examination of the 10 leading cyberstates by employment reveals that
Florida was also the fastest growing state by rate of growth (+4.1%),
followed by Virginia (+3.0%). Also, Virginia surpassed Colorado to lead the
nation with the highest concentration of tech industry workers as a
percentage of the private sector workforce (8.9%). Until now, Colorado had
owned this distinction ever since AeA began publishing the Cyberstates
report.
The report also found that after dropping slightly in 2005, venture capital
investment in the technology industry rose by $285 million to $12.7 billion
in 2006. High tech accounts for half of all venture capital investments in
the nation. R&D expenditures by high-tech companies jumped by 22% in 2004,
the most recent data available, totaling $70.6 billion, which is a
record-breaking amount of R&D.
But what about the bad news? One of the organizations Competitive Series
of reports claims the U.S. is losing its competitive edge on the global
stage. "As our case studies show, countries around the world are moving
beyond economic reforms to invest in the factors that spawn innovation and
propel nations to become global competitors," the report says. "While this
is a net plus for the world, it is only a net plus for the United States if
we maintain our competitiveness. But we are not. For example, South Korea
has passed the United States in engineering bachelors degrees awarded. And
we have slipped from 11th to 16th internationally in broadband diffusion."
Going further, "Thousands of technology jobs continue to go unfilled
because not enough Americans possess the requisite skills. And on top of
this, the United States continues to close our workforce safety valve:
highly skilled and educated foreign nationals. These best and brightest do
not come here and take American jobs; they create literally thousands of
jobs by developing intellectual property, spawning innovation, and founding
companies."
If the U.S. is truly losing its competitive edge in technology, which is
probably true, why is there job growth? Is the growth at the low end of
technology jobs? Is the growth production-oriented rather than R&D? Are the
added jobs being taken by foreign nationals with H-1B visas? It would be
interesting to ask the AeA why there may be a contradiction between the two
reports. Or is it necessary to define which jobs are growing? Want more
information?
This tenth edition of Cyberstates provides a comprehensive review of the
high-tech industry nationally and state by state in terms of high-tech
employment, wages, payroll, and establishments. Cyberstates also offers
data on venture capital investments and R&D expenditures. A national and
state-by-state analysis of the technology industry and international trade
will appear in a forthcoming AeA report entitled Trade in the Cyberstates
2007: A State-by-State Overview of High-Tech Trade in the United States.
AeA members can purchase the report for $125; non-members for $250. Visit
www.aeanet.org/cyberstates to purchase the report, or call 408-987-4200.
The AeAs Competitiveness Series is an array of concise, four-page
reports that combine rigorous data with careful analysis to provide readers
the information they need to assess an issue. To date, AeA has published 13
installments of the series and is continuing to add to this collection.
Reports currently in preparation address issues such as e-health,
international trade, and the rise of China. All reports can be downloaded
for free at www.aeanet.org/cs.
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