Category: Outsourcing

The Business Process: Description of Outsourcing Business process reengineering involves redesigning the business processes and the process is also called business process change management. It also involves the analysis and design of workflows and processes in a firm and it cannot be studied without defining the term business process. A business process is a set…

Outsourcing at a Glance: A Theoretical Framework Table of Contents Outsourcing theory Support of the theory Diagrammatic illustration of the theory A theoretical proposition in the study References Outsourcing theory Outsourcing is the exercise of utilizing external service providers with the job of performing in-house endeavors. This has attracted a rising interest in recent years…

Outsourcing Human Resource Functions Organizations prefer to outsource HR functions to gain a competitive edge and improve efficiency in an era of globalization and heightened competition. Essentially, this is the process where a third party is involved in a business operation as part of the practice. The act has grown in popularity and is now…

Writing Freelancers and Outsource Market Shifts It is increasingly common for freelancers from abroad to take over jobs formerly occupied by individuals in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. In some cases, this situation is called job transfer. A sizable number of countries have become targets of job transfer activity, China and India among them. Job…

Benefits of Outsourcing Catering Services Outsourcing is the purposeful allocation of some business processes or systems and delegating their implementation to a third party. It is logical to define the distinguished business processes as those that the organization implements with the least professionalism. Unlike service and support services, which are of a one-time, episodic, random…

Bharti Airtel Limited: Strategic Outsourcing Bharti Airtel Limited is an Indian multinational telecommunications corporation that was founded in 1995 by Sunil Mittal. At the time of the companys establishment, Mittals starting capital was $900 (Palepu & Bijlani, 2012). The company mainly provides services in the field of mobile communications, broadband and telephone services, and long…

Outsourcing Payroll Function: Benefits and Dangers I was asked to compile evidence on the benefits and dangers of outsourcing the payroll function of Sony Canada Inc. as a part of the budget review this year. Since letting an outside company manage payrolls may be a viable option to improve the efficiency of company management and…

Opportunities in Logistics Outsourcing Expediency of Transition to Logistics Outsourcing in the Manufacturing Industry Today, many enterprises involved in the manufacturing industry transfer the authority to perform their key logistics functions to outsourcing firms. According to Cortinhal, Lopes, and Melo (2015), this trend is due to the fact that such companies are ready to provide…

Global Production, Outsourcing and Logistics: Hot Topic Table of Contents Introduction Global Production Outsourcing Logistics References Introduction This paper is about the recent news article that appeared in Fox Business, titled Mitsubishi Motors announces Production, Sales and Export Figures for January 2008 (dated February 26th, 2008). The news article gives detailed figures for the companys…

Outsourcing Advantages and Disadvantages in the USA Outsourcing can be regarded as one of the byproducts of globalization. Many early movers benefited from this strategy especially when it comes to the production of the products (Carbaugh, 2015). Outsourcing has been associated with a competitive advantage, but it led to significant losses for some firms (Mourdoukoutas,…