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Currency of developers - new ideas

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•	Unclear strategic objectives and priorities.•	Fluctuating commitment and resources.•	Unclear organizational structure and responsibilities.•	Limited overseas presence or contacts.•	Finding promising targets.•	Properly evaluating technical and commercial merits of identified targets.•	Coordinating needed cross-functional team efforts.•	Negotiating mutually satisfactory agreements.•	Overcoming the "not-invented-here" (NIH) attitude of staff or the risk-averse culture of management.•	Managing divergent expectations and differing cultures after the agreement has been consummated.•	Successfully integrating the newly-sourced technology into the mainstream of the corporation.

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•	Unclear strategic objectives and priorities.•	Fluctuating commitment and resources.•	Unclear organizational structure and responsibilities.•	Limited overseas presence or contacts.•	Finding promising targets.•	Properly evaluating technical and commercial merits of identified targets.•	Coordinating needed cross-functional team efforts.•	Negotiating mutually satisfactory agreements.•	Overcoming the "not-invented-here" (NIH) attitude of staff or the risk-averse culture of management.•	Managing divergent expectations and differing cultures after the agreement has been consummated.•	Successfully integrating the newly-sourced technology into the mainstream of the corporation.

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Allows the organisation to focus more on their main business process

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Off the shelf usually has Quicc implementation as the solution is usually complete and ready to be installed

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forums providing support as well as the company

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Can be extremely customisable and easily adaptable

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Can make it tailored to your business

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Can be expensive depending on the size if the project - could lead to it not being affordable if it was through a small business

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No need to deal with external companies and employees, only have to deal with your own employees

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Developers time / attention may be split between many projects

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Your team need to have enough knowledge to be able to create everything the software needs to do

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There's a lot out there and so you may be able to find one that suits your business needs

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onus on them if it goes wrong (and you are still in support window)

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can be expensive depending on the knowledge of the company and what they can offer

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could get stuck in a cycle causing development costs to increase as well as the quality to decrease

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Staffing and Strategic planning is kept in house and kept in line with internal business processes and IT governance (if such things exist internally !)

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Staffing and Strategic planning is kept in house and kept in line with internal business processes and IT governance (if such things exist internally !)

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Developers need to spend time learning someone else's propitiatory code

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too many cooks?

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Gives the opportunity to highlight and correct any issues with the system

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cooky spooks

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Staff will need to be trained to use the new features and system

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Might distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

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Can invalidate support from the original developers company

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fixes or last minute customisation can be rolled out quickly

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like half the work is already done

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might not do exactly what you need it to, buying software could be seen as more of a quick fix solution rather than the company actually putting time/effort/money into getting exactly
what they need

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Could struggle to find one for the right price

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external companies may be very keen to sell their product and all but lie to you about its functionality until you have paid for it and suddenly it wont work in the way you expected

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There is a possibility for privacy/ confidentiality risk – business data and customer privacy could potentially be at stake.

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Loss of control when outsourcing software.