From outsourcing to global collaboration
Subtitle: new ways to build competitiveness
By: Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, Patrick Kalaher
Contributors: Forbath, Theodore; Brooks, Peter; Kalaher, Patrick; Harvard Business School. Division of Research
Series: Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 07-080; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- 07-080
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Description: Many companies have successfully used outsourcing to lower costs. But, unless the company's efforts are unusually good, true competitive advantage is fleeting when competitors begin outsourcing and achieve similar results. To build sustainable competitive advantage, leading companies are now using an advanced form of outsourcing, called global collaboration, to drive new revenue, quicken time-to-market, and increase innovation. Global collaboration impacts their top as well as bottom lines. But effectively adopting this approach requires adjustments to traditional outsourcing strategy, organization and processes.