Developments in Practice XXVII: Delivery IT Functions: A Decision Framework
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Developments in Practice XXVII: Delivery IT Functions: A Decision Framework
Despite a steadily growing industry of third party providers, IT organizations to date have ventured rather cautiously into this new area of IT function delivery. This paper attempts to explain why this is so by examining the decision behavior and practices of a number of leading edge organizations. From this analysis, four key decision criteria were identified: flexibility, control, knowledge ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Communications of the Association for Information Systems
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1529-3181
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.01935