Beyond the information systems outsourcing bandwagon the insourcing response

Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Total outsourcing is the practice of turning over the entire IS department to a vendor for up to ten years. The authors' 1993 study, Information Systems Outsourcing: Myths, Metaphors and Realities (Wiley), dispelled many myths about total outsourcing. The present study investigates the hypothesis that internal IS departments should be able to implement efficient managerial tactics without outsourcing. It presents six case studies of organizations that undertook an outsourcing evaluation, gathered external vendor bids, but selected the internal IS department's bid. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.   Publisher Summary 2 Ever since Eastman Kodak announced that it was outsourcing its information systems (IS) function in 1988 to IBM, DEC and Businessland, large companies have found it acceptable or even fashionable to transfer their IS assets, leases and staff the third-party vendors. In view of the changes in the sourcing, the key question now is not "should we outsource IS?", but rather "where and how can we take advantage of the rapidly developing market of IS services providers?". This book seeks to provide answers to this question.