Smarter Outsourcing: An executive guide to understanding, planning and exploiting successful outsourcing relationships

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Introduction: Why you need to do this

Our long-term strategy is to outsource as much as we can, so our IT organization can concentrate on the things that will help us win in the marketplace.

—Scott McNealy, Chairman and CEO, Sun Microsystems

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