The Present Situation of IT Outsourcing and Countermeasure

Xinyuan Xi, Yingyu Xu, Hiroyushi Todo

China Soft International Technology Service Ltd., Shanghai, China.
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan.
LeLe Mother’s Maternal Store Ltd., Shanghai, China.

DOI: 10.4236/jsea.2013.68052                

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.

Keywords

Outsourcing; IT Management; Countermeasure

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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