One just *has* to wonder if the outsourcing was mostly a ploy to deal with an out of control culture. You transfer all management to a third party. Let them 'retrain' the troops. Then you bring it back under new management with new marching orders.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Sprint backs out of IBM outsourcing deal Sprint Scraps Major IT Outsourcing Deal With IBM TechWeb via Yahoo! News Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:00 PM PST Sprint is bringing back work and employees it gave to IBM under a $400 million outsourcing pact and redoing its multibillion-dollar call-center deal with the IT services firm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

