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title: "A Sinner’s Guide to Offshoring - Analyst Corner - CIO"
url: https://campbell-online.com/blog/2007/02/02/a-sinners-guide-to-offshoring-analyst-corner-cio/
description: "Very interesting and amusing article in CIO, in which the author manages to characterize six classic errors in offshoring as five of the Seven Deadly Sins (including my."
published: 2007-02-02
updated: 2007-02-02
---

# A Sinner’s Guide to Offshoring - Analyst Corner - CIO

Published 2007-02-02

February 2, 2007 · [Outsourcing](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/outsourcing/) · [IT service management](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/it-service-management/) · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/)

[Very interesting and amusing article in CIO](http://www2.cio.com/analyst/report4411.html), in which the author manages to characterize six classic errors in offshoring as five of the Seven Deadly Sins (including my personal favorite, Gluttony) and one standard-issue Tragic Flaw (*hubris*):

> Compass analyses indicate that both captive and outsourced offshore projects are often poorly planned, shoddily implemented and ineffectively managed. As a result, cost savings from these initiatives fall far short of their potential. In many cases, the failures result not from a lack of capabilities, experience or resources, but from human foibles such as arrogance, laziness or greed. In other words, good old-fashioned sin is to blame.

[“A Sinner’s Guide to Offshoring”](http://www2.cio.com/analyst/report4411.html)

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