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Outsourcing: Board supervision is vital close to the core

By Stephen Pritchard

Published: July 8 2008 16:33 | Last updated: July 8 2008 16:33

In the past two decades, outsourcing IT has transformed the landscape of many enterprises and public-sector organisations. In some industries, outsourcing is now the norm.

As author and commentator Nicholas Carr predicts in his recent book, The Big Switch, buying rather than building IT services could become the norm for most organisations as a result of outsourcing, software as a service and utility computing.

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