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Tearoff of Nottingham: University to lose chunk of IT dept to outsourcing

Lorribot

If it takes 10 people to do a job it will always take 10 people to do the job and one person to manage them. If you out source you will need one person outside to manage the 11 people and one person inside to manage the relationship with and one person to manage the relationship externally, so to do the work of ten people used to take 11 people now you need 13.

Someone needs to be cheap here and when you do IT cheap it invariably goes wrong.

Outsourcing never works, even contractors are rarely worth it, as they are only there to deliver the contract and really don't get what it will look like in 1 or even 3 years time like those that in for teh long haul.

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