Companies use as much as 80% of their IT budgets to maintain the status quo. Investments in innovations that can help a company grow are often delayed because the company is spending too much of its limited IT budget on non-strategic activities, such as data center operations, application development and maintenance, and staffing an IT help desk. Offshore outsourcing changes the budget balance, the savings from which will free up $30B for new investments by 2010.

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