Executive Update

Business Process Outsourcing Risks: A Multitude of Flavors

Posted October 14, 2006 | Leadership | Leadership |

Theoretically speaking, there is nothing in business that cannot be outsourced. This extreme view sees an infinite, irreversible trend of more and more business activities being outsourced, from as early as when power supply was outsourced to specialist power plants, which most companies of the world now take for granted. In the context of IT, the ever-increasing scope of outsourcing remains controversial. The focal point of this controversy lies within business process outsourcing (BPO).

About The Author
Yuwei Shi
Dr. Yuwei Shi is cofounder of Scholarly Exchange, Inc., an online scholarly publishing services company based in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA, and is an advising partner at Indachin, a venture capital and advisory firm headquartered in Hong Kong. He is Associate Professor of strategic management at the Fisher Graduate School of International Business at the Monterey Institute, an affiliate of Middlebury College. He has worked in the areas of… Read More
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