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Examine four reasons that may make an organisation outsource some of its non-core information technology activities or services.

      

Examine four reasons that may make an organisation outsource some of its non-core information technology activities or services.

  

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gregory
Outsourcing
This refers to the process of contracting computer center operations, telecommunications
networks, or applications development to external vendors.
Reasons for outsourcing:
1.Cost Effective
Outsourcing if well initiated and managed could be more cost effective than maintaining an
organization‘s computer center or information systems staff.
2.Outsourcing enables a company with fluctuating needs for computer processing to pay for
only what it uses rather than build its own computer center, which would be underutilized
when there is no peak load.
3.Outsourcing enables an organization to free up scarce and costly talent for activities with
higher payback.
4.Outsourcing frees an organization‘s information systems staff of the task of keeping up with
technological change or innovative practices. This thus eliminates associated training costs.
5.Outsourcing enables an organization with minimal/no human resources (IS staff) to perform
systems development since it contracts the process of development to external vendors.
6.Outsourcing may mean getting quality, since the vendors outsourced to are usually specified
in their field and thus they have the necessary expertise required to produce quality systems.
gregorymasila answered the question on November 20, 2017 at 16:02


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