India is outsourcing outsourcing.
C'ville Central's proudest day will be when these organizations utilize the skills of local entrepreneurs by contracting jobs through C'ville Central rather than outsourcing to out-of-town or even local but larger companies.
Managing outsourcing requires an understanding of outsourcing strategy, the benefits and risks of outsourcing, the evaluation process, and the methods to managing outsourcing providers.
Until recently, Appalachian towns such as Clintwood were an outsourcing destination, not a victim.
Deepak Parekh, chairman of HDFC, says that prices in Gurgaon, a satellite town outside Delhi that has attracted many outsourcing companies, are now falling, having doubled in the past year.
Right now only about 15% of American municipal water systems are privatized, but more and more towns want out of the capital-intensive business and are considering outsourcing to private companies.
"Instead of outsourcing, we're insourcing," says Moose Koons, the sales manager at Peach Street Distillers, a small outfit based in the tiny town of Palisade, near Utah, that made its name with a peach brandy using overripe local fruit that farmers would otherwise have thrown out.
In provincial towns, villages and suburbs around the continent, people whose jobs and livelihoods have been disrupted by immigration, outsourcing and automation no longer fit into the same social democratic "big tent" as urban professionals, ethnic minority voters, students and public-sector workers.
These towns' struggles also show some of the difficulties that many communities will encounter if, as experts predict, outsourcing continues to grow.
