Document Type : Research Paper
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This research is done in order to evaluate and manage IT/IS outsourcing risks. Awareness about outsourcing, as a supportive source of organization strategies, is increasing and it is not only seen as a factor to reduce organization costs anymore. For this reason, organizations inclination to use IT Outsourcing, in order to pass useful feedback to the environment, is tremendously increasing. In this research we used expected loss perspective for evaluating risks of IT activities in Ab-Niru Company.
Research's results determined that some systems, which are closed to the core competency activities in the company, have highest amount of outsourcing risk and some systems which are not so close to the core competency activities in the company, have lowest amount of outsourcing risk.
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