When in Doubt, Farm Out: Outsourcing Lets Small Businesses Focus on Their Core Competencies

Topics:
Business Process Outsourcing,
Strategic Management Tools
Tags:
Business Operations,
Core Competency,
It Operations,
Outsourcing,
Outsourcing & Subcontracting,
Small Business,
Thomson Corp.
Source:
Thomson Gale

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Overview: The outsourcing trend began in the early '90s, when large corporations started contracting work to third parties as a cost-saving measure to concentrate resources on their core businesses. Today, small businesses nationwide are jumping on the bandwagon. The total outsourcing market has tripled since 1996 to an estimated $400 billion annually, according to The Outsourcing Institute.

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Format: HTML | Date: Aug 2003

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