A New Way For Businesses To Operate

By Kelly Smedley

Over the past 20 years, a lively discussion has taken place on the merits-and demerits- of outsourcing. Driven by the desire to reduce costs and focus on core business imperatives, many companies have shifted functions such as manufacturing, software development and customer care to outside vendors operating both domestically and internationally. The emergence of cost-effective technology and telecommunications platforms has greatly facilitated the outsourcing movement, Author and journalist Thomas Friedman brilliantly described this phenomengn in his best-selling book The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, in which he analyzes the growth of global interconnectedness and
commerce.

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