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Mike is the CIO of a medium-sized industrial firm. His firm outsourced the provision of IT services to a major multinational outsourcing firm. The outsourcing arrangement has now been in place for seven years, and therefore his own internal IS team and the outsourced providers have had ample time to learn how to work with each other.