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Transformational Outsourcing
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This is an MIT Sloan Management Review article. Executives began outsourcing substantial portions of their operations more than a decade ago to offload activities they declared to be noncore to cut costs and improve strategic focus. Today, however, companies are looking outside for help for more fundamental reasons--to facilitate rapid organizational change, to launch new strategies, and to reshape company boundaries. In doing so, they are engaging in transformational outsourcing: partnering with another company to achieve a rapid, substantial, and sustainable improvement in enterprise-level performance. On the basis of research on 20 companies that have attempted the practice, the author identifies four broad organizational categories that can benefit from transformational outsourcing. Start-ups such as TiVo, for example, need partners to scale up rapidly. "Crouching tigers" such as Family Christian Stores are being stymied by a deficiency in some key capability from meeting their strategic aspirations. "Fallen angels"--such as BP in the mid-1990s--settle into the wrong performance trajectory and need strong action to change their tack. And organizations on the edge of survival--as Britain's National Savings and Investments was several years ago--need transformational outsourcing to become "born again."