Outsourcing Mentor, Blog

Let me clarify: I hate articles promoting outsourcing. Every day from any number of new sources there are business journalists writing about the benefits of outsourcing. For most organisation that is like teaching your grandmother to suck eggs. Everyone knows the potential benefits, everyone knows that India is the largest outsource hub, everyone knows that people shouldn’t focus on cost but most people still do.

Small Business computing

Telecom paper 

What is needed in the business press is a look at the different aspects of outsourcing rather than outsourcing as a whole. There are a multitude of decisions that have to be made during an outsource project. The problem is that most journalists don’t have enough in-depth knowledge to comment on the finer points of outsourcing. As in all sectors of business the key is specialise or die. Journalism is exactly the same. There are some good articles starting to come out but most of these are penned by consultants rather than journalists and tend to have a sales slant to them.

Wral

Reliable Plant

Articles I would like to see would focus on the differences between the way MNCs and SME outsource. Until then we will all have to suffer from the re-hashing of the same old story ad infinitum.

 

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