one form or another for as
long as anyone can remember, the term was given new momentum in the late
1980s when it started to be recognised as a business strategy and given
further impetus in the early 1990s as
companies were encouraged to focus on core competences. In more recent times, for many companies “outsourcing” gradually became “off-shoring”.
Newsletter
Issue 6: June 2012
What goes around...
It is difficult to imagine anyone in business who has not come across the term “outsourcing”. Though it has been part of the business world in
Faster, Higher, Stronger
As I wiled away a few idle moments on a train journey
last week, I was reading about the preparations for the London Olympic
Games and I started to think about similarities between business and
athletics. I started to think which event best epitomises the essential attribute needed to succeed in business but quickly realised that successful businesses require more than one ingredient so I started to compile the events that
I would include in a Business Pentathlon. We don’t have space in this short article to go through all the deliberations but here are the events that made the final five. >> click for more ...
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With the Olympics approaching quickly, it gets you thinking about similarities between top sport and business. In our second article we indulge in looking forward to this event and comparing what we do with athletics. >> click for more ... Your complete This newsletter is best viewed in Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.
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