Outsourcing a Firm’s Application Development Group

Thomas L. Saaty () and Luis G. Vargas ()
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Thomas L. Saaty: College of Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh
Luis G. Vargas: College of Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh

Chapter Chapter 4 in Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process, 2013, pp 93-117 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Outsourcing Information Technology (IT) functions is a growing trend in businesses looking for ways to reduce cost and hasten time-to-market of customer-facing and internal applications. The strategy of outsourcing functions, tasks, and activities to another company has existed for decades. During periods of recession, U.S. corporations cut costs by moving jobs that are of a repetitive nature to lower-cost regions, typically “offshore” or in non-U.S. countries. For example, manufacturing companies have been leveraging offshore resources since the 1950s, while the off-shoring of IT started about 10–15 years ago with the movement of legacy system maintenance tasks to Ireland and Canada.

Keywords: Business Process; Pension Benefit; Operational Node; Resource Node; Financial Node (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7279-7_4

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