Crowdsourcing never revolutionized IT projects like some thought, but it’s still a viable strategy in certain cases, Patrick Gray argues in a TechRepublic article. Labor arbitrage, the act of moving labor to lower-cost locations, was a cornerstone of IT cost reductions through much of the last decade. However, the administrative and support structures of outsourcing don’t lend themselves to short-duration projects with an ever-changing pool of resources.