The most successful IT outsourcing decisions create truly innovative execution strategies that deliver meaningful business results. The outsourcing decision, however, frequently comes down to a cost-driven ROI calculation: how much will all this innovation cost us, and how long will it take to recover those costs? This is the wrong mindset and often the primary reason why IT outsourcing is generally underperforming.

Surveys from various industries have shown dramatic failure rates as high at 70 percent. Complaints come from both the clients and the service providers they turn to for the outsourcing. In one survey, more than 50 percent of buyers reported lower-than-expected economic outcomes. But service providers also complained about economic outcomes; specifically, about significant margin compression between 5 and 50 percent.

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