IT outsourcing: How offshoring can kill innovation

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IT service providers are touting the benefits of outsourcing's increasingly higher-value and more complex IT work to lower-cost locales. And IT customers still hyper-focused on cost cutting in today's economic doldrums are more than willing to consider the pitch. But Harvard Business School professors David Pisano and Willy Shih argue that 'moving up the value chain' with offshoring can irreversibly damage a company's -- and a country's -- competitiveness and ability to innovate.

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