IT Outsourcing

IT Outsourcing:

IT Outsourcing is the practice of turning over responsibility of some to all of an organization's information system applications and operations to an outside firm. It has both an advantage and disadvantage on which the effect I guess will always be dependent on every organization.

In every organization the management is always concerned with its system effeciency and effectiveness. If IT outsourcing can maximize their flexibility and control to meet the needs of their business unit then they have to adopt the policy of outsourcing which means that they create a separate organization out of their IS department. In some cases an organiztion employing such will dissolve some or all of its IS units and may even fire all of its information systems employees to overcome operating problems they face in its IS units.

To outsource or not to outsource is really a tough decisions to be made by decison makers. So how should a manager approach IT sourcing decision? The authors gave ten quide questions that can be used and must be answered by decision makers in order to arrive with a sound decision.