BrandPost: IT Outsourcing is back – And IT’s more critical than ever

By the time IT outsourcing was declared dead a decade ago, the term had become almost a dirty word in IT circles.

The practice briefly flourished in the 1980s and 1990s as organizations sought to cut their computing costs by shifting large swaths of their infrastructure and personnel costs to firms that ran everything for them more cheaply. The idea was that IT was as much a commodity as water or electric power, a philosophy summed up by Nicholas Carr in his dour 2003 essay, IT Doesn’t Matter.

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