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It Outsourcing

It Outsourcing and Core is Capabilities: Challenges and Lessons at Dupont

Leslie P. Willcocks A professor in the Information Systems Department at the London School of Economics, U.K., recently moving from Warwick University. He is associate fellow at Templeton College, Oxford, and visiting professor at Erasmus and Melbourne Universities. He has published widely on IT strategy, management, and sourcing issues.
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David Feeny Fellow and director of the Oxford Institute of Information Management at Templeton College, University of Oxford. He was a senior executive at IBM for 25 years.
Pages 49-56 | Published online: 21 Dec 2006

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