Tom Brennan wrote: > The word "resource" hadn't been used for a person yet, and managers ran > projects themselves and knew who was best for each particular task. What a > strange world it was.
True. I see outsourcing as: 'Let other companies do my work which is NOT my core business or which is cheaper to let others do it'. So, cleaning of buildings, gardening, sewer unblocking, guards, catering, etc. are usually outsourced here in sunny South Africa. I know of a bank, which has folded many years later, which outsourced all its IT to an outside company. ALL of it, mainframe, network, PC, printing, staff managing those equipment, etc. were transferred to that company. [1] That despite their IT is part of *core business*. Go figure. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - I know it, because I found out that grimy slimy truth during job hunting in 1990 around... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
