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Governance: An Essential Component for Successful Outsourcing

This quick, one-time registration gives you access to members-only site benefits. As the global economy becomes more competitive, companies of all sizes are considering outsourcing their non-core functions to service providers that specialize in these functions. Successful outsourcing allows a company to focus on becoming more competitive in the performance of its core capabilities and to delegate other aspects of its operations to one or more service providers who can reduce costs and improve performance in these non-core functions. However, improvements and cost reductions typically require transforming the way in which the outsourced functions are performed, and the impact of such transformation is one of the greatest challenges facing the parties to an outsourcing transaction. Veterans of numerous outsourcing transactions recognize that the very changes that are
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This quick, one-time registration gives you access to members-only site benefits. As the global economy becomes more competitive, companies of all sizes are considering outsourcing their non-core...

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