Usually, most people will relate "in-house" to "under the same corporate umbrella" so, everything can be compromised ...
Under the same umbrella, your customer can be your boss or those people who are having higher access to your boss directly. It will have direct "impact" on your career. It is quite hard for you to say "no!" There is "almost" no way for you to reject unreasonable request and yet you can't run away from being "blamed" if your project is not delivering what is "expected" by the stakeholders. It is even worse when the cause of the failure is not directly under your control ...
In-house usually implies that you have the "obligation" to be "competent" enough to be kept "in-house". It is often that when you are "in-house" resource the expectation on you is even greater compared to external resources. Transparency (how your work is watched) is also very high.
It is also interesting to note that "in-house" give others theperspective of "sunk cost resources" therefore most of the jobs are considered "inclusive" within the "salary" package you are getting.
So, are you one of the in-house resources?
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This issue actually relates closely to top management sponshorship. It is quite difficult to push from bottom. Because, usually these top management people won't listen to "old dogs" (it is even worse if these old dogs are not having high rank in position); so, the best way for getting a push is to get an external consultant that can talk and influence these "stubborn" top management.
But to get external consultant in, you got another problem -- "why you need to spend on consultant? Are you saying we are not able to lead the company?" Then another war is started ...
So, the best way is ... find another place better to work :-(
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