Michael Corbett, chairman of IAOP, offered rich, pointed remarks about the current state of global sourcing this morning at the IAOP meeting, touching on the global economic crisis and its impact on outsourcing, Peter Drucker’s prescient views on outsourcing and the recent political debate about working with offshore organizations. Some of his key insights:
Current Economic Crisis:
Corbett stresses the 'one nervous system' concept in linking providers with client partners
The best quote of the day so far: “Is the economic crisis an opportunity to strength the core or allow outsourcing to be swept up under the tyranny of immediacy of getting through the current month or current quarter?”
Client businesses are faced with a fundamental choice on how they look at current and future outsourcing …
