Subcontracting versus outsourcing
28 August 2012
Q: There’s a trend at the moment to call any subcontracted service an outsourcing project. Several organisations I know have been struggling with defining the two, as they’re unsure where the line is between the two. What is the difference?
A: Bob Bannister, senior consultant at Future Purchasing Performance, writes: I recently spoke at an event where the speaker before me opened his slot with a potted history of outsourcing. His first words were something like this: “We used to call it plain and simple subcontracting, now everyone knows it as outsourcing” – a view I would...