2018年BEC中级阅读资料及解析(2)

Look at the statements below and the advice to businesses on the opposite page about using other companies to run their IT services.

1、the need to teach skills to employees working on the outsourced process

2、remembering the initial reason for setting up the outsourced project

3、the need to draw up agreements that set out how integration is to be achieved

4、addressing the issue of staff who work on the outsourced process being at a distant site

5、the importance of making someone responsible for the integration process

6、staff on the outsourced project familiarising themselves with various details of the business

7、problems being associated with an alternative to outsourcing

When a business decides to outsource its IT services, it needs to consider the question of integration. Four experts give their views.

A.Gianluca Tramcere, Silica Systems

An outsourced IT service is never a fully independent entity. It is tied to the home company’s previous and continuing systems of working. But despite the added responsibility of managing new ways of working, many businesses ignore the integration process. They fail to establish contracts that define the ways in which the two companies will work alongside one another, and focus solely on the technological aspects of service delivery.