It took me some time to understand how would our university outsource the information system functions since most of my reference about outsourcing is business related, where money and time is of the essence. Since the object to be in/outsource is an information system I think i would side with insourcing.

Why insourcing? well.. uhhmmm.. there are some reasons. One would be that having our IS insourced, we know better the issues concerning it. Therefore will have better control over its development and functions. If we outsource our IS my concern would be who would we send if the outsourcer needs human resource? our own professors? It would be a loss to the university.

The thing that could tempt to outsource is the benefit of shared knowledge and skills. Access to intellectual property and wider experience and knowledge would really enchance the skills of our faculty. Also having access to operational best practice that would be too difficult or time consuming to develop in-house.

In insourcing we could make a comitee or a team who will be incharge of developing and maintaining our IS, with addtional pay of course. There's and ethical issue that i've found that says; why pay people outside of the company when we can pay our own personnel that are capable of doing the same task?