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There's very little appetite for building expertise in house. If it can be outsourced to one of the big four, it will be.
by jasiek 10y ago
There's very little appetite for building expertise in house. If it can be outsourced to one of the big four, it will be.
- dandermotj 10y agoBig four employee outsourced to big bank. The lack of in-house knowledge is always troubling. Also screen scraping data and automating processes by having a program take control of the mouse/keyboard and click/type is a big seller to banks.
- ethbro 10y agoMy favorite lack of in-house knowledge is the mysterious but commonly used system acronym. You'd think "What does this stand for?" would be a question someone could always readily answer.
- jasiek 10y agoThe effect of this strategy is similar to what happens in government - you have IT directors, who actually know very little about IT, but know they have $X to spend to solve problem Y. There is a number of companies who will gladly state they will solve problem Y for approximately $X. It creates this weird, self-reinforcing relationship.