Outsourcing

Water Cooler
#1

Real talk.

I’ve been tasked with the responsibility of creating a cost benefit of outsourcing one of our back office departments. While I have a ton of primary research to conduct and numbers to crunch, are there any studies or results of other companies spinning off a part of their back office function and outsourcing it?

I trust you all understand why I can’t be more specific, heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if a fellow AFer may lose his/her job if this function was outsourced.

#2

But so many of the IT folks from certain regions of the world on here may gain jobs, so you’re probably studying a net benefit to AF.

#3

Don’t outsource me CvM I’m just tryna feel mink.

#4

Given the demographics of AF you’d likely be giving someone a job.

#5

Not sure if these will be helpful or not.

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/outsourcing-business-processes-for-innovation/

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/223552724_Risks_and_benefits_of_business_process_outsourcing_A_study_of_transaction_services_in_the_German_banking_industry

#6

^ Respect. It’s a start so I don’t need to reinvent the wheel.