In-House vs Outside Consulting Firms

The use of outside consultants as opposed to inhouse programmers for software development falls into the general area of outsourcing. Outsourcing is a term applied to a variety of practices that, in essence, mean that functions that would otherwise be performed by a firm's own employees are performed by entities external to the firm (Quinn, 1991, p. 7). Outsourcing, as a concept, is related to and, in the broadest scope of the term, encompasses both the makeorbuy decision concept and the concept of contractingout services. Outsourcing in information management, as an example, encompasses the makeorbuy decision concept when a decision is made by a firm to either acquire a software program on the market or employ outside consultants to develop such software, as opposed to the inhouse designing of a software program specifically tailored to the firm's need. Alternatively, outsourcing in information management enco

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stem (Boose, 1990, p. 78). The knowledge required for use in expert systems is typically collected heuristics. Heuristics enable humans "to make educated guesses when necessary, to recognize promising approaches to problems, and to deal effectively with incomplete or inconsistent data" (Boose, 1990, pp. 7879). Persuading a human expert to "articulate problem solving knowledge is one of the main problems in building expert systems" (Boose, 1990, p. 79). Recently, the problem of persuading human experts to part with their expertise and experience for use is expert systems has become an easier task (Rasmus, 1991, pp. 281282). In part, the reluctance of experts to participate in the process of expert system development has been overcome through a demonstration that the application of expert system to certain tasks neither debases the human expert nor renders that expert superfluous (Mahler, 1991, pp. 1819). A second persuader has been the demonstration of the usefulness of expert systems in improving database management (Kennedy and Yen, 1990, pp. 5561). A database is a shared collection of interrelated data designed to meet the needs of multiple types of end users. A data base is a non redundant collection of logically
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