The key term is "Managed Services". Some company (can be an old, well known one) approaches a high-management person or persons with an incredible deal to reduce costs by using his company to "manage the IT services" for their company. By reduced costs, they mean contracted employees (usually offshore) that have a tenancy to move quickly to other companies, especially if they become proficient. This leaves the "bottom of the barrel" to manage the companies assets. I have seen some of the bigger outages by these companies caused by these contractors needing to "look busy", and therefore making changes that end up causing large outages that the previous (American) workers would know about, because they setup the environment in the first place.
In pursuit of "looking busy", they spend a lot of time invoking vendors for everything that they see when monitoring and don't understand (which is a lot). I've also seen nepotism in the ranks too (All in the family), regardless of ability...
Yup, a dream come true for Obama & company. Destroy the most amazing country in the world with a pen and a phone...
Or was it Clinton: "Stroke of the pen, law of the land!"
"The key term is "Managed Services". Some company (can be an old, well known one) approaches a high-management person or persons with an incredible deal to reduce costs by using his company to "manage the IT services" for their company. "
I agree. This is outsourcing in a nutshell. This concept is rarely the right approach yet is has become the norm in corp America.
Think about it in simple terms. "Managed Services", "Outsourcing" is always sold on the basis of cost. Now think about this. Pretend your home is a corporation. Is it cheaper for you to mow the lawn yourself or to "outsource" it to someone else? Which is likely to produce the high quality outcome?