As the end of the year approaches, the predictions of what's to come
in the next 12 months abound. Of course, those predictions are usually
quickly forgotten and no one rushes to issue a scorecard for how they
fared -- but that's not the case at CIO.com. This year, we're revisiting
the 11 outsourcing trends we forecast for 2011 to find out which of them actually came to pass.
If we were a baseball team, we did great as just less than half of them
were right on target. However, this is the IT outsourcing game where
service-level expectations hover around 99.99 percent. And some of those
predictions were strikeouts: Egypt takes center stage? A major merger
between a big Indian and U.S. provider? Swings and misses.
