India is outsourcing outsourcing.
This is especially useful to companies who outsource a service to a third party.
However, it is also useful for anybody involved in outsourcing who is seeking to develop a global understanding of the main processes and roles upstream and downstream in the chain.
Unless you're a self-starting smarty who worked out a few years back that plumbers and electricians could never be outsourced, the more useful a job the more likely it seems to be one that gets cut first.
Cocontest is useful also for companies as a new outsourcing channel for low cost projects.
But an example of the less useful, says Mr Sutherland, is the proliferation of the words "outsourcing" and "offshoring".
Outsourcing is one of the main dynamics keeping their wages down, and the Harvard experiment is a useful case study of how institutions can use their clout to force a remedy.
Whatever one thinks about Edward Snowden and his revelations about government snooping, the case has been a useful reminder of the extent to which the government has outsourced intelligence work to the private sector and the risks in doing so.
It is potentially useful in some special situations where electronic checks and contracts are outsourced.
While Google and Facebook continue to accumulate and monetise information about their users post-by-post and click-by-click, newspapers, having "outsourced" their content, get to know next to nothing useful (or saleable) about their readers.
