Outsourcing: Introduction

Posted September 30, 1999 | |

Over the past decade, the concept of outsourcing has not only become popular, it has become a "mega-business." As Michael Mah points out in the first article of this issue, outsourcing is expected to generate over US $150 billion in revenues by 2003.

About The Author
Ed Yourdon
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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