Project outsourcing refers to a company handed over one or a few links of its operations to other companies, ie "Do your best to do it, do other people to others." Project outsourcing as a business management concept is generally accepted by companies such as developed countries such as the United States in the 1980s. Project outsourcing is rapidly developed as an industry. It has changed the business management method of the company, which no longer only reduces cost needs, and become an integral part of the company's pursuit of excellence. The famous American writer, Dartmouth School Management Professor James Quin is that the project outsourcing is one of the important forces to promote the transformation of enterprises and industrial structures in this century.
The world project outsourcing market has developed rapidly in the late 1930s and has doubled in the last 3 years of the 20th century. Kobe introduced that the 2001 global project outsourcing expenditure reached 3.78 trillion US dollars, accounting for 14% of the total amount of business activities in the world. The global project outsourcing market is currently growing at a rate of about 20% per year. He expects that 2003 will reach 51 trillion US dollars.
Project Outsourcing can be divided into field project outsourcing, near domain project outsourcing and offshore project outsourcing. It is estimated that the outsourcing expenditure of the offshore project accounts for half of the total expenditure of the project outsourcing.
According to country distinguish, in a global project outsourcing expenditure of $ 3.78 trillion, the United States accounted for about 2/3. According to the company, the project outsourcing expenditure of large enterprises accounts for about 2/3 of all project outsourcing expenses. According to the industrial zone, half of the global project outsourcing expenses flowers in the field of manufacturing, construction, logistics services, human resources development. The project outsourcing expenditure spended by the information technology industry accounts for 10% of the total expenditure of the project.
Bobit predicts, in the next two years, project outsourcing expenses will grow up quickly in Europe, and its project outsourcing expenditure accounts for the proportion of global spending will increase from 16% in 2001 to 23%, and the share of the United States will 68% drops to 62%, and Asia will maintain existing 7% share.
In the US's 26 million companies, the company adopted project outsourcing approximately 2/3. According to a recent survey of the US project outsourcing research institution, the President of US Enterprises in the project outsourcing approach believes that whether it is economic boom or period of recession, project outsourcing methods have become an important management means for the survival and development of relations enterprises. During the economic recession, the use of project outsourcing methods can reduce operational costs, enhance the speed and flexibility of enterprises to adapt market changes; economic rising period, can save opportunities, centralized the core business to enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises, expand the scale of business, Open a new market. In the past two years, the US project outsourcing market has experienced the network bubble, the economic recession, and the "9.11" incident not only did not shrink, but it has got a relatively large development.
The main causes of US enterprises adopt project outsourcing methods can be generally summarized as three categories of strategic, strategic nature and renovation. The outsourcing of strategic projects mainly considers short-term and mine benefits, using this way to reduce and control operational costs, reduce investment in non-core business, and use these funds to develop core business. In addition, enterprises can be made by project outsourcing, increase cash flow. The outsourcing of strategic projects considers the long-term interests of the enterprise. This is mainly to improve corporate business, out of the trivial business activities, strengthen core business; obtain world-class capabilities, through the outsourcing of projects to world-leading companies, new technologies, new skills and new tools; dispersion Operating risk, etc.
The so-called renovation project is a business that fundamentally changes or transforms the enterprise through project outsourcing. Using project outsourcing methods can realize corporate business transformation; respond to continuously shortened product life cycles; re-definition from suppliers and collaborative partners; avoid competitors; reduce the goals of entering new markets.
Since the first project outsourcing global annual meeting since the 1898, Kobe has been a strong interest in promoting China's project outsourcing market. Recently, Kobe has jointly launched an annual meeting of China and the United States International Projects.
