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Co-sourcing is the corporate practice of combining internal capabilities with specialized knowhow from an external supplier.
Recognizing that it could never properly develop the specialized internet security capability needed to protect its enterprise systems, Big Red entered into a co-sourcing agreement with Digital Port Authority.
In contrast to outsourcing, which is wholly delegating some of a company’s internal activities to an external contractor, co-sourcing involves bringing the contractor into the company to collaborate in one or more specific areas or functions with the company’s own professionals on an ongoing basis. The company hiring the co-sourcing partner maintains control over the co-sourced area or function and will better understand the situation than it would were the entire area or function outsourced. Moreover, the internal staff collaborating with the co-sourcing contractor is going to acquire knowhow from the co-sourcing supplier that it would never learn from an outsourcing partner.
Co-sourcing je podniková praxe kombinování interních schopností se specializovaným know-how externího dodavatele.
Společnost Big Red uznala, že by nikdy nedokázala vyvinout specializovanou schopnost internetového zabezpečení nutnou pro ochranu svých podnikových systémů, a uzavřela smlouvu o co-sourcingu s Digital Port Authority.
Na rozdíl od outsourcingu, který představuje úplné delegování interních aktivit společnosti na externího dodavatele, co-sourcing zahrnuje přivedení dodavatele do společnosti, aby spolupracoval na jedné nebo více konkrétních oblastech nebo funkcí společně s vlastními profesionály společnosti na dlouhodobé bázi. Společnost, která si najímá co-sourcingového partnera, si udržuje kontrolu nad co-sourcovanou oblastí nebo funkcí, a bude chápat situaci lépe, než kdyby celou oblast nebo funkci outsourcovala. Navíc interní personál, který spolupracuje s co-sourcingovým dodavatelem, získá know-how od dodavatele co-sourcingu, který by se od outsourcingového partnera nikdy nenaučila.
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