Interest in outsourcing: small companies vs. large companies over time
Over time, interest in outsourcing has grown significantly. Historically, there has been a noticeable difference between large and small company outsourcing incentives. In 2006, 57% of large companies were outsourcing or about to do so. However, only 35% of small companies were looking into it. Each year, more and more respondents told us that they were outsourcing and small companies have been catching up to pace. By 2010, six months after the recession bottomed out, 70% of respondents from both large and small companies indicated that their companies were outsourcing. In the current survey, interest in outsourcing has declined for large and small companies to around 60%. This decline could be associated with the idea that the lessening of the pressures of the recession might have removed the impetus for change.
* Excerpted from "IT Trends: The Time to Innovate is Now" (
) Cutter Benchmark Review, Vol. 11, No. 1; 25 February 2011