IT Challenge

摘要

Tim Buckley is a bit of a contrarian. While firms like JPMorgan Chase & Co. enter into multi-billion-dol-ar IT-outsourcing agreements to shed staff and cut osts, and others look to outsource application development offshore, Buckley, chief information officer of the Vanguard Group, is taking a different tact. He's keeping work in-house, because it is "essential that the crew is pulling in the same direction." "When we have had outsourcing arrangements in the past, such as running the data center or the LAN, we found that we can do it here far more efficiently than any outsourcing arrangement."