Welcome to Sourcing Secrets.

This site is about one thing: Learning how to make Information Technology work for your business to take it to the next level, or the next ten levels.  Whatever industry your are in today, you are probably already familiar with the love-hate relationship of business and IT. In fact, enterprise IT which used to be the domain of CEOs, CIOs and large corporations in the 70's spilled over to the small and medium businesses by the 80's and '90s, has become a fixture of tiny businesses and even start ups today thanks to a phenomenon called technology / IT outsourcing services.  

“IT outsourcing” has many definitions but it really is an evolving concept. It meant various things from having a hired intern over the summer, experienced freelancers (and elancers) and "staff augmentation" contractors brought into internal IT departments ("insourced") as contingent workers. It eventually came to mean signing multi-year deals worth tens of millions of dollars with a single technology service provider, usually half a world away, the value range being between "out tasking" and "managed services". Now more than ever, it tends to imply you may be “renting” software (and hardware) like a utility that streams into your laptop’s browser from – you guessed it – "The Cloud”. The enterprise IT outsourcing paradigm has transformed itself while changing the way business is done. And just when it seemd to have levelled out, it appears poised for an encore. In fact IT outsourcing on more than one level is a journey rather than a destination, and we hope to savour all these sights and sounds on our way.

If you are an entrepreneur, or a strategist thinking of outsourcing IT, a business manager trying to optimize outsourced IT or an industry affiliate who wants to share your story of success or failure with outsourced IT, this place is for you. This is intended to be a watering hole for peer-to-peer learning with some insider insights from real life engagements over a decade thrown in by "yours truly".

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