Question

Describe what activities and functions are appropriate to outsource in order to gain or strengthen competitive advantage.

Answer 1

Outsourcing

This is a process in which any organization or company gives its small tasks to be carried out by other companies in order to lower down the workload on its employees and focus on its core functions which help them to achieve its organizational goals and increase its competitiveness in the market.

Now let us discuss some activities and functions which are appropriate to outsource in order to gain or strengthen competitive advantages

• Creating a website for the organization is a work that requires a team of professional web designers and any organization which is not into it can easily transfer this work to any outsourcing organization which has already an efficient team of web designers.
• Hiring professionals for the organization is a very important and time consuming task which can lead to time consumption of the organization to complete any particular project in any given time frame so in that manner organization can outsource this responsibility to the other company to hire professionals for them and help them create an efficient and professional team still focusing on their core job.
• The organization can also outsource the task of collecting details and review from their customers in order to create an appropriate process or just to make necessary changes in their product or services which can be more accurate to satisfy the consumer needs.