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Published: Friday 22 April 2005
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John Sullivan
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Ireland
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CEO
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Actually, i was expecting a good historical example.
Look what happened with the Roman Empire. Originally they used their own legions to defend their northern frontier at the Rhine. But eventually they started outsourcing it to the local Barbarians.
A hundred years later, the same barbarians rose up, and overran Rome, and destroyed the empire.
Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.
I’ve been involved in many outsourcing projects. ...
Paul Beauchamp
Sun was a genus. The fact that they still teach ph...
Joe Whitehead
I've seen many examples of outsourcing over the ye...
Anonymous
Outsourcing the hen-house to the foxes…
I stare...
Anonymous
Actually, i was expecting a good historical exampl...
John Sullivan
I believe there arre two 'ancient reasons' why out...
Michael Grogan
This article is totally waste. There are no exampl...
Manju
Sun Tzu was actually a genius. Unless you know som...
Robert Clark
Some of the trouble comes when an organisation tha...
John Groom
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