Global Sourcing Trends In 2010

Executive Summary of 2010 Outsourcing Trends

Global Economic Problems

Recession and Recovery

In outsourcing terms, the verdict on 2009 was "it could have been so much worse." Cost cutting was the main driver and re-negotiation the main activity. The key questions for the outsourcing world in 2010 are: What sort of recovery in the world economy will we see? Will the recession return after cost-cutting outsourcing deals have already been done? Will the predictions of different shaped recovery curves in the U.S.A., Europe, and Asia cause splits in global outsourcing deals as economies move out of recession at different rates?

Outsourcing is one way for organizations to position themselves to capitalize on the recovery and show that their overall strategy is about value creation, not merely cost containment.