Is outsourcing reaching its limits or simply pausing for breath?

Wisconsin Technology Network
Outsourcing is a management tool that is taking the business world by storm, or so it would seem from reading much of the dedicated coverage of outsourcing topics featured in business and IT publications and websites. Thus it was very surprising to me to come across two recently released studies on outsourcing published by leading consulting firms - Deloitte Consulting and DiamondCluster - that accentuate the negative aspects of this management practice. Both of those studies inject a welcome dose of reality into the hype-saturated subject of outsourcing. They present insightful perspectives on the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing that counterbalance some of the biased treatment of this topic emanating from those media, research and consulting firms with a vested interested in seeing the outsourcing trend grow.Deloitte Consulting’s study, “Calling a Change in the Outsourcing Market” was released at the end of April 2005. It presents data collected from twenty five of the world’s largest and most sophisticated companies and draws valuable insights from their substantial experience with outsourcing - both the good and the bad. more...