IT Outsourcers & Consultants: IT Outsourcing may seen like the most obvious form of ITSP but it is actually a rather uncommon approach. I lump together the ideas of IT Outsourcing and consulting because, in general, they are actually the same thing but simply handled at two different scales. The behaviours are essentially the same between them. In contrast with MSPs, we could also think of this group as Unmanaged Service Providers. IT Outsourcers do not develop heavily defined service packages but instead rely on flexibility and a behaviour much more akin to that of an internal IT department. IT Outsourcers literally act like an external IT department or portion thereof. An IT Outsourcer will typically have a technological specialty or a range of specialties but many are also very generalized and will handle nearly any technological need.