- Why is Google operating its own cafeterias with full-time chefs and cooks for its all employees, instead of outsourcing to external caterers?
- Why is it more difficult to control an external vendor than to control your own employees?
- Why is there a “non-disclosure agreement” in any contract?
- Any examples of “conflicts of interests” and “information asymmetry” between a client and a vendor (except the examples that were discussed in class)?
- What kind of “homework” or research would be needed in selecting an IT outsourcing vendor?
7 Responses to Day 9 – Strategic IT Outsourcing (I) – online discussion questions