Oh come on. Where will the paranoia stop? You really think someone
would do that? You must not believe in Santa either! :-)
I don't know of an outsourcing arrangement that ever really worked.
It may work for a while, then comes the problems, the divorce, and
back in house it comes. We should change the name to yo-yo sourcing.
Doug
At 12:32 PM 1/31/2006, you wrote:
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.
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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.
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