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The use of Management Support Systems (MSS) and outsourcing are two separate events that are both seeing increased occurrences. This 16 page paper considers the way in which the potential impacts of outsourcing management support systems. The paper starts by considering what is meant by a Management Support System (MSS) and how they are used. The potential advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing are then discussed before being applied to the potential outsourcing of MSS services or functions. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
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File: TS14_TEoutmss.rtf
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of information and the ability to add value to the operations of a company with increase analysis and knowledge creation, it is only with the assumption that managers are prepared
to make the investment (Santhanam and Hartono, 2003). At the same time as the potential value that IT can provide, it is also a potential drain, in the US there
is a phenomenon known as the productivity paradox where the increase in productivity generally associated with the use of IT, measured in a direct and indirect manner has been shown
to be a misplaced perception (Brynjolfsson and Hitt, 1998). The level of increase in productivity has fallen during the implementation of technology (Brynjolfsson and Hitt, 1998).In many cases the implementation
and running of IT services internally can create high initial and ongoing costs. At the same time as the need for the use of IT and the desire to
cut costs there has also been an increase in the practice of outsourcing, introduced as a way of reducing direct and indirect costs. However, there are many implications associated with
outsource, especially when it comes to many of the IT functions. For simple functions there may be fewer potential disadvantages, but as he type of IT functions or service increase
in their complexity and potential sensitivity of the content increases the implications will also become more complex For companies seeking to outsource Management Support Systems (MSS) there is a very
real need to consider the potential impacts of that decision. To consider this we first need to look at what is meant by a management support system and how
it is used by a business and then consider the potential of outsourcing, both he benefits and the potential disadvantages in order to assess its impact on the outsourcing of
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