Do you understand the difference between outsourcing and offshoring?

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Everybody outsources. If you eat food that you didn’t grow yourself, you outsourced. Seriously, people need to get an understanding of what the word means. Take your clothes to the dry cleaners, it’s outsourcing. Need some legal work done? You hire the law firm down the street to do it instead of becoming a lawyer yourself, it’s outsourcing. If you’re talking about a business doing outsourcing, same idea. Does your web design firm use a hosting company to host the website? Woops, you’ve outsourced that! When you have a pizza party, do you make your own dough? No? You got it, you outsourced. Outsourcing isn’t the same thing as “offshoring”, okay?

June 9, 2005 by admin

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4 Responses to “Do you understand the difference between outsourcing and offshoring?”

prabhjot on June 15th, 2005 4:56 am

I read your blog on outsourcing. I have found it quite informative, interested and also helpful in sharing knowledge resources.
j.webb on July 13th, 2005 5:54 am

its not nearly the same. that wrong, the monies you pay for your outsourced pizza gets digested in americas belly not so fo those offshore deals that monies leaves our countrry only to return later as foriegners investment capital. j.webb.
kewl cop on July 27th, 2005 7:51 am

excellent examples used to drive home your point.. kudos!!!!
morris on October 19th, 2009 4:06 am

those are perfect examples you have given there? But I Need to understand offshoring with examples