IT Outsourcing Paper

Introduction In today’s technological world of high speed internet the accessibility of computers and servers from anywhere around the world has become easier and be connected to the organization information at any time of the day and from anywhere in the world is easier. For any organization, outsourcing the information technology (IT) to other countries is cheaper than to maintain organization information technology 24/7. This paper discusses the various aspects of outsourcing the IT function from an organization. This paper discusses about the factors that may lead to a outsource IT, factors that might lead the manager not to consider outsourcing, risks associated with outsourcing the IT function, benefits associated with outsourcing, costs involved in outsourcing agreement and dollar impacts that are expected, and finally discusses about the implications to the business organizational structure by outsourcing IT department and personal issues.
Factors that lead to outsourcing
Factors that lead a manager to outsource the information technology (IT) function are the costs associated with having the project in-house and needing to employ people for short time for the accomplishment of the project and managing big team is one of the factor that managers consider to outsource and not worry about managing the project in-house. Instead of doing the projects in-house and managing many people, the managers consider to employ core people for the projects like architects, project managers, projects leads and outsource the time consuming development with many people. Another factor is the technical resource management, with resource moving from one job to another job leaving behind the huge gap in the technical expertise and it takes more time to fill in these gaps. Project timelines are another factor in outsourcing, to complete the project on time with huge technical resource in a short time.
Factors that might not lead to outsourcing
The factors that might not lead

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