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    IT Outsourcing

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    In fifteen pages this paper discusses causes, effects, and the reasons behind major corporations' outsourcing of information technology. Fifteen sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    expertise and knowledge on staff to oversee what the outsourcing supplier is doing (Beebe and Meyers, 1998). Outsourcing was not officially recognized as a business strategy to streamline corporations  and increase net profits until the very late 1980s (Beebe and Meyers, 1998). That does not mean this was the first time companies had contracted with other companies to perform  some of the regular functions. That has probably been going on as long as businesses have existed. Small companies have historically contracted with other agencies to do their payrolls or  their entire financial record-keeping. And, companies have relied on other agencies or consultants to find employees for many decades. In other words, any number of support services have been contracted  out for a very long time. Outsourcing as a strategy to cut costs and improve productivity, however, is said to have become into its won in the late 1980s.  Beebe and Meyers report on the stages and phases of outsourcing (1998). These writers say that organizations began by outsourcing those functions that were necessary to run a business but  in which the company had no particular expertise or internal staff to perform those functions (Beebe and Meyers, 1998). "Managers contracted with emerging service companies to deliver accounting, human  resources, data processing, internal mail distribution, security, plant maintenance, and the like as a matter of "good housekeeping" (Alexander & Young, 1996, p. 116). The strategy of outsourcing then progressed  when companies believed they could save money by having other agencies perform specific functions rather than keeping a department staffed with experts in that specific part of the business (Beebe  and Meyers, 1998). Some managers seem to think that if they outsource the IT functions, they will not have to have any IT personnel on the payroll (Beebeand Meyers, 1998). 

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