IDG Contributor Network: Has outsourcing lost its strategic relevance?

For more than 20 years, outsourcing and global delivery were at or near the top of the CIO to-do list. Strategically, outsourcing IT services allowed an enterprise to gain the essential capabilities it needed to endure the dramatic shifts of the last two decades – remediating billions of lines of code to support Y2K, creating first-generation websites, supporting the growth of the dotcom boom, optimizing the supply chain through massive ERP efforts and riding the giant digital transformati