2014 IT Outsourcing in Review: Grading Our Predictions

Around this time last year, CIO.com and its outsourcing experts made some wide-ranging predictions for IT services. We said this would be the year that robots began taking over IT service jobs. (Not exactly.) We said that a new hybrid offshoring model would gain favor. (It did.) And we predicted the mass repatriation of work from third parties back onshore or in-house. (That didn't happen.)
We revisited all of our prognostications from last year and found that this year a record number of fi