IT outsourcing: Ten reasons for ruling it out

In a chill economic climate, organisations are saving money wherever they can — and that can mean thinking what once would have been unthinkable and outsourcing the IT department.

The theory may make sense: an outsourcer will be responsive to your every IT need and you won’t be paying staff to sit around and wait for problems. But with the outsourced approach come issues you may not have anticipated. Here are 10 of them.