insourcing
Insourcing is the corporate ritual of discarding the convenience of external vendors and heroically burdening in-house teams with every problem under the guise of “ownership.” Aspirational efficiency invariably collides with the harsh reality of budget and staff shortages. When it succeeds, every achievement is lauded as in-house genius; when it fails, it is quietly rebranded as a “scope change” miracle. The internal squad is hailed as saviors only to absorb all unpredictable risks. Ultimately, nobody wants to own the fallout, leaving the project to languish in a forgotten corner of the company.