TITLE:
The Present Situation of IT Outsourcing and Countermeasure
AUTHORS:
Xinyuan Xi, Yingyu Xu, Hiroyushi Todo
KEYWORDS:
Outsourcing; IT Management; Countermeasure
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.6 No.8,
July
26,
2013
ABSTRACT: With the market competition
intensifies, enterprises focusing on core business has become the most
important rules of survival. Therefore, more and more enterprises adopt
outsourcing as critical business initiatives due to its effectively reduce costs, enhancing the core competitiveness of
enterprises and other characteristics. Duroc, a famous American management
scholars had predicted: “In ten to fifteen years within any business background to support not
only to do the work of creating turnover should be outsourced.” Do what you do best (your core
competency) and outsource the rest. It has become an irreversible trend. In this paper, we will introduce the
business value of IT outsourcing, discuss IT outsourcing industry’s strengths and weaknesses, finally we
will provide corresponding countermeasures based on the discussion.