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Excerpt from "Outsourcing" As a Mechanism of Information Technology Governance: A Test of Alternative Diffusion Models The hype around outsourcing was brought to a greater height when ibm announced an unusual agreement under which it will build and operate a data center for Eastman Kodak cos. According to this agreement, ibm will take over the work done by four Kodak centers, and 300 Kodak workers will become ibm employees. Furthermore, to cut costs as much as 50% by turning the operation over to ibm. Almost overnight, the hidden weapon of outsourcing became the hot talk of the information systems (is) community, and in a survey of top IS executives consider outsourcing emerged as one of the top ten issues for success (or survival) in the 199056. It also seems that in 1990 and beyond, the key question facing the IS department is not only whether to outsource, but also what to outsource7. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.