In a context of a ever-diminishing defence budgets, and with the creation of a professional army, civilian firms have a new role to play in the development of defence activities. Strong partnerships between defence and civilian companies can reduce operating costs and lead to improved equipment availability.
How Can Outsourcing be Made Secure?
For over 20 years all areas of industry have concentrated on their core business. To operate this highly focused strategy they have chosen outsourcing and set up control processes.
What Can or Should be Outsourced?
There are several reasons for the move to outsourcing:
- not to keep in-house that which can be better or more cheaply done outside;
- to concentrate the resources, especially financial ones, of the company on its core business, so as to better conserve and develop its technological strengths;
- to make use of the expertise developed by specialists who know their business and can bring the benefit of their own technological advances.
To Whom can Functions, Often Strategic, be Outsourced?
To outsource a function, which may often be strategic, may represent a risk which must be controlled, notably through the selection of an appropriate partner. The outsourcing process requires strict security rules.
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