Boardrooms split over offshore outsourcing

IT directors don’t trust their boardroom counterparts in charge of finance to manage offshore outsourcing contracts, said a survey published today.

That’s quite a coincidence because finance directors don’t trust IT directors either, according to another survey published by the same firm, Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies, in March.

It is perhaps no surprise that HCL found differences of opinion between these two camps in its marketing survey of 300 directors (200 FD, 100 IT). FDs are the old guard. IT directors, the upstarts. IT directors have about the same standing with FDs in blue chip firms as the earliest British ambassadors to India had with the great Moghul emperor Jahangir - they are tolerated.

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