Preface
IT departments are under increasing pressure to meet the many, often conflicting, demands of boards of directors, shareholders, end-users and competitors to name but a few. The need to compete in a global market intensifies this pressure, bringing with it the need for: skilled personnel, regular upgrading or replacement of systems and networks, a proliferation of software licences, and even new premises – in other words, considerable cost.
In response to the need to identify specialist suppliers of IT services capable of responding with agility to fierce global competition with greater economy, many boards of directors have turned to outsourcing the IT function to specialist suppliers.
Statistics show that this trend is growing, but there ...
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