I discovered this nice blog the other day, Enterprise Architecture Management Rants by Alan Inglis. I saw his comment on outsourcing, based on this Deloitte report and wanted to add my comment on this subject.
Here are some of the points raised by the report.

70% cited cost savings as a key driver for outsourcing, but 38% […]

In an earlier post on Agile Enterprises, I covered this briefly.This post intends to fully take up the subject .
Here are some of the major engineering issues that arise parallel/outsourced development scenario.
Concurrent Engineering
We want to be able to develop solution parts, capabilities in parallel. In case of a distributed development environment, this becomes rather […]