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Today, the picture is very different. Socitm policy advocates ‘smart sourcing’ as critical for successful ICT delivery – more aligned with common sense than past Whitehall policies. This is particularly important today, with cloud models offering more flexibility in scale and cost than traditional ICT outsourcing. Original: https://blog.socitm.net/2018/07/06/outsourcing-the-socitm-view/
There should be a situation where outsourcing in the public sector can be managed appropriately and used to complement in-house service delivery and policy-making. The problem is that such a balance demands in-house skills – and we outsourced all of them! Original: https://government.diginomica.com/2018/06/26/outsourcing_liddington_government/#.WzuS0AW5WUQ.twitter
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