Why is this a crisis point?
Ask a CEO about the decision to lease a vehicle or buy a vehicle, and you will get one of two answers:
If he is accounting savvy as well as business savvy, he will give you the cost breakdown, including maintinance, financing, and depriciation expenses.
If not, he will tell you that he had Accounting run the numbers.
Now ask him about IT.
If he is tech savvy, he will talk to you about internal and external customers, infrastructure and depriciation costs, and in-house expectations and costs as compared to consultants or outsourcing.
If he isn't tech savvy, he will tell you he had accounting run the numbers.
What is REALLY going to hit a crisis point, is the expectation that internal IT departments are going to "Take on an advisary role", if the day to day operations are outsourced.
If there is not an entry-level position within the corporate IT department, them just HOW are there supposed to be any people trained in the details and execution of IT that would form the basis for providing advice!
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