Contributing Factors to Trends ERP Outsourcing Trend No. 1 All Spending Is Under Scrutiny, Including Big-Ticket Items Such as ERP Software Can What Were Once Considered Assets, but Are Now Liabilities, Become Assets Again? Upgrading — With Its Capital Spending Implications — Is Understandably Unattractive ERP Outsourcing Trend No. 2 Major Root Causes (and Effects) of Suboptimized Management of ERP Applications Focus on Sweating the Existing Assets Current Approaches to Optimize Performance via In-House Management and Outsourcing ERP Outsourcing Trend No. 3 Operating Principles for 21st Century Outsourced ERP Management Application and Infrastructure Approaches Should — Ideally — Be Synchronized Competitive Advantage in Outsourcing Comes From Balancing Skills for the Old and the New World |
