In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many U.S. companies expanded IT outsourcing as a core strategy. In a widely cited review of outsourcing failures, Jérôme Barthélemy pointed to an Economist Intelligence Unit report estimating that 34 percent of firms outsourced all or part of their information technology in 1997, with the share projected to reach 58 percent by 2010. A growing share of this work moved offshore to destinations such as India and China, where vendors often priced services well below onshore rates.