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2013 年商务英语考试中级阅读题精讲 1 Look at the statements below and the advice to businesses on the opposite page about using other companies to run their IT services. 1、the need to teach skills to employees working on the outsourced process 2、remembering the initial reason for setting up the outsourced project 3、the need to draw up agreements that set out how integration is to be achieved 4、addressing the issue of staff who work on the outsourced process being at a distant site 5、the importance of making someone responsible for the integration process 6、staff  on the outsourced project  familiarising  themselves with various details  of the business 7、problems being associated with an alternative to outsourcing When a business decides to outsource its IT services, it needs to consider the question of integration. Four experts give their views. A.Gianluca Tramcere, Silica Systems An outsourced IT service is never a fully independent entity. It is tied to the home companys previous and continuing systems of working. But despite the added responsibility of managing new ways of working, many businesses ignore the integration process. They fail to establish contracts that define the ways in which the two companies will work alongside one another, and focus solely on the technological aspects of service delivery. B.Kevin Rayner, Domola Businesses need to build integration competency centres dedicated to managing the integration effort. It is critical to have an individual in charge to check that the external and internal business operations work together. Although companies often think of outsourcing as a way of getting rid of people and assets, they need to remember that, at the same time, outsourcing involves gaining people. Because there is a new operation being carried out in a different way outside of the home business, this creates a training element. 精品文库 C.Clayton Locke, Digital Solutions Communication is the key to success, and outsourcing to other regions or countrie