Focused issue on operations research and outsourcing

摘要

New strategic paradigms evolve to change businesses practices. The most popular strategy in business today is outsourcing. All forms of public and private sector businesses, governments, medical and educational institutions are increasingly outsourcing due to the perceived advantages this strategy offers. Businesses around the world are committed to outsourcing strategies despite high outsourcing failure rates reported in the literature. There is, therefore, a need to increase the success rate of outsourcing. The decision to outsource business activities, the planning process, the implementation of an outsourcing project, the measurement of the project's performance, and continuous monitoring and decision processes all might be improved by the application of operations research methodologies.