12 Steps to Beat Your Service-Provider Addiction

eastbayted writes "It starts off simply enough: Your company signs on an outside firm to help you finish an important app dev project on deadline. But then they convince you they can be of service in getting other work done at your company, and you agree. Before you know it, your organization has become far too dependent on this team of outsiders on whom you're wasting a ton of money and perhaps not getting much in the way of a return. InfoWorld has devised a 12-step program 'that can help wean you off unhealthy dependencies on service providers, consultants, and outsourcers — without having to check into the Betty Ford Clinic or make a tearful confession on Oprah.'"

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Re:Like most things, incompetence is to blame.

[Linkiroth]

And hire someone like IBM, and you will never get rid of them. Yeah, and the lawsuits'll never end either.

Only 3 Steps Required

[Anonymous Coward]

Very easy to get rid of consultants, once you realise you have a problem: -

1. Fool the sucker into believing he'll soon be working on even more and perhaps bigger projects;
2. Tell him that before he can work on those, he'll have to fully document his knowledge of company processes so someone else can "maintain" the process;
3. You're fired sucker! :)