Analyzing IT Outsourcing Decisions: Size, Interdependency and Risk

Wendy Currie and Leslie Willcocks

Chapter 8 in The Practice of Outsourcing, 2009, pp 187-212 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter we bring together a number of threads running through previous chapters, and focus on distinguishing between four types of IT sourcing decision: total outsourcing; multiple supplier sourcing; joint venture/ project sourcing; and insourcing. To illustrate each type, detailed case histories are used where we analyze the reasons why specific IT sourcing decisions were adopted, and provide comment on the outcomes. Here we consider total outsourcing at the London Stock Exchange; multiple supplier sourcing at ICI pic; joint venture/project sourcing at CRESTCo Ltd; and insourcing at Royal Bank of Scotland.

Keywords: Joint Venture; Telecom Network; Harvard Business Review; Multiple Supplier; Settlement System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230240841_8

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