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IT outsourcing evolution---: past, present, and future

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Jae-Nam Lee,

Minh Q. Huynh,

Ron Chi-Wai Kwok,

Shih-Ming PiAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 46, Issue 5

Pages 84 - 89

https://doi.org/10.1145/769800.769807

Published: 01 May 2003 Publication History

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To achieve complex solutions in the rapidly changing world of e-commerce, it is impossible to go it alone. This explains the latest trend in IT outsourcing---global and partner-based alliances. But where do we go from here?

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