The outsourcing of IS development for Ingleburn Health Clinic

Scientific Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Information Management, grade: 68, Keele University, language: English, abstract: In this essay, we discuss a journal article on the influences, restrictions and the success factors that relate to the aspect of IT outsourcing, and associate the findings to assist the Ingleburn health care center's system development approach. The context of the paper is built upon IS outsourcing decisions and the related feedback gathered from IS managers at public universities in Spain. Although the universities resemble a dissimilar background compared to Ingleburn healthcare center, most of the research outcomes and characteristics can be applied in favor of the system development decision that Ingleburn needs to make. Since the Ingleburn case does not mention about the availability of any technical competencies that can handle the IS development task itself, a fair recommendation would propose that the health care center management should respond to a (customized) questionnaire based on the under mentioned research and arrive to a clear conclusion about their outsourcing options.