Brainstorm ways to save money by changing business processes, either by limiting outsourcing, by actually increasing outsourcing or by reducing certain aspects of operations to save the business money over the long term.
Such commercial presence enables them to bid for teleradiology contracts that are being outsourced by some EU governments as their European subsidiaries are not subject to outsourcing restrictions on patient data.
Outsourcing by American firms boosts their profits.
This is basically a means of outsourcing by importing cheap labor.
Likewise, more manufacturing is being outsourced by multinationals to specialist equipment makers.
The production processes outsourced by big companies in factories or call-centres are by rich-world standards unskilled.
For a long time, however, this inconvenient reality could be largely "outsourced" by the most powerful countries.
That is the central thesis of "Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing" by Tim Shorrock Simonn & Schuster, $27).
Most of our work is outsourced by the government to large interpreting agencies, which have undercut each other and then outsourced the work to specialists.
Making it useful, however, requires specialist knowledge and computer-modelling skills.A few specialist firms dominate this activity, long since outsourced by drug makers.
