This is an extremely cynical comment. First, hard-line profit/cost center thinking is falling out of fashion at top MBA schools like Harvard and has been for years. But also, a reasonable MBA would be able to recognize when the tech team is actually creating value vs. when they are dead weight that could be outsourced. And, it's really myopic (and the kind of thing that people make fun of engineers for) to believe that tech is the only ones adding value. Value (perceived, communicated) is potentially created all up and down the chain.
Oh, I just meant value as it applies to the person who actually ends up using whatever the business is making. Of course perceived and communicated value is most important to a business. After all, if you could somehow convince people to just dump money on you without doing anything for them at all, you'd be the best business of all.
Either they're dead weights or they're not. How does outsourcing change the equation? Certainly not by reducing cost -- not if you want to outsource to non-dead-weight development group.
Seriously? Take a bunch of do-nothing office drones, can them all and get a maintenance contract with some consultant in eastern Europe. What's hard to understand about that?
