Outsourcers 'making up projects to inflate their fees'

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Survey suggests that contracts also cost more than planned

Outsourcing companies make up projects purely for the purpose of inflating their fees. That is one of the conclusions of a recent survey of IT professionals, in which two-thirds of respondents s...

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