Beating outside pressures
13 September 2012
Defence giant BAE Systems has saved tens of millions of pounds by handing purchasing to an external company, but making the relationship work meant overcoming some major obstacles. Amon Cohen reports
Outsourcing is so much the rage at the moment that some businesses look like they are locked into a gigantic game of rummy: the first one to farm out every corporate function they can think of is the winner. In our newly connected online world, the argument goes, third-party specialists can handle non-core duties better and more cheaply, and seamlessly integrate the...