In June 1999, Sony hired its first chief information officer, formed an in-house task force and teamed with its retailers to work out how to shorten shipment times.
For the first time in 30 years, the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act encouraged what has come to be known as "insourcing," bringing back in house tasks that have been outsourced.
This answer from 2012 to a Quora question, about what tools Facebookers use to communicate with each other, also details how Facebook uses Groups, email and chat; and how it has built a couple of tools internally — Pixelcloud for sharing and commenting on images (including new design prototypes), an in-house-built task management tool that's compared to Asana — among other external platforms.
At the end of 2013, Mattel did announce the creation of Playground Productions, an in-house studio tasked with creating original films, TV shows, web series, videogames and such.
Animal rescue organizations often can't handle the influx of unwanted chickens, leaving "municipal dog and cat shelters the task of taking in, housing, feeding, caring for, and inevitably killing healthy, adoptable chickens," according to a statement from Farm Sanctuary and five other organizations.
The No. 1 recommendation of the agency's in-house, post-Fukushima task force was to overhaul its "patchwork" of regulations for "beyond-design-basis" events that plants aren't intended to withstand.
As Peter Dreier recounted in 2004, Reagan "appointed a housing task force dominated by politically connected developers, landlords and bankers".
The cost of employing them is transparent, whereas that of doing the task "in-house" can be opaque.
In addition, the infants' manual dexterity was assessed using the fine motor component of The Mullen Scales of Early Learning and an in-house developed Manual Dexterity task.
Many small businesses end up doing a lot of ancillary tasks in-house rather than pay someone else to do them.
For those who perhaps do not want to take on the task in house, Sonia Sodha, head of policy and strategy at the Social Research Unit at Dartington, offers some advice.
