Working for a smaller consultancy that often has to work alongside (or under the astute guidance of) larger consultancies such as Accenture, CGEY, PWC etc...my impression is that outsourcing has become a very convenient vehicle for the big guys to offset the massive costs associated with their often over-rated "value-added" consultancy at the front-end of a project, by offering less than value-added development/battery programming at lower rates later in the life-cycle.
It also provides them a neat, lost cost entry into product-specific consultancy so they can purport to be capable in products X, Y and Z where in reality they have little real depth of knowledge.
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Sleepy Hollow in the panoramic views probably IS the British probe!
Working for a smaller consultancy that often has to work alongside (or under the astute guidance of) larger consultancies such as Accenture, CGEY, PWC etc...my impression is that outsourcing has become a very convenient vehicle for the big guys to offset the massive costs associated with their often over-rated "value-added" consultancy at the front-end of a project, by offering less than value-added development/battery programming at lower rates later in the life-cycle. It also provides them a neat, lost cost entry into product-specific consultancy so they can purport to be capable in products X, Y and Z where in reality they have little real depth of knowledge.