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skills and knowledge
.
 
Many organisations would not 
have a sufficiently well-developed IT department to offer IT staff opportunities for career 
development. Talented staff would leave to pursue their careers elsewhere. 
(e) 
New skills and knowledge become available
.
A specialist company can 
share 
staff with 
specific 
expertise 
between several clients. This allows the outsourcing company to take advantage of new 
developments without the need to recruit new people or retrain existing staff, and without the 
cost. 
(f) 
Flexibility
(contract permitting). Resources may be able to be scaled up or down depending on 
demand. For instance, during a major changeover from one system to another the number of IT 
staff needed may be twice as large as it will be once the new system is working satisfactorily. An 
outsourcing organisation is more able to arrange its work on a 
project 
basis, whereby some staff 
will expect to be moved periodically from one project to the next. 
Disadvantages of outsourcing 
Some possible 
drawbacks
are outlined below. 
(a) 
It is arguable that information and its provision is an 
inherent part of the business 
and of 
management. Unlike office cleaning, or catering, an organisation's IT services may be too 
important to be contracted out. Information is at the heart of management.
(b) 
A company may have highly 
confidential information 
and to let outsiders handle it could be seen 
as 
risky 
in commercial and/or legal terms. 
(c) 
If a third party is handling IS/IT services there is no onus on internal management to keep up 
with new developments or to suggest new ideas. Consequently, opportunities to gain