Study on a Decision Model of IT Outsourcing Prioritization

Abstract

-In today's knowledge-based society, IT outsourcing has been used increasingly in many enterprises as a policy instrument for changing the way publicly funded services are provided. Full IT outsourcing strategy is an extreme one, there are many arguments for it, and selective IT outsourcing strategy often results in greater flexibility and better services. So, identifying IT object prioritization is very important to IT outsourcing. But, now most of researchers paid too much attention the decision of Application Service Provider (ASP) selection. Therefore, this paper proposes a decision model, which uses the fuzzy gray matter-element space theory (FHW) method, to help enterprises prioritizing the IT outsourcing objects. By this decision model, enterprises can make decision about selective IT outsourcing. At last, the paper gives an example as the illustration to show the practicability of the model.