Smart strategic outsourcing:

During past decade, the recent economic crisis has resulted in an overall reduction of manpower and the loss of key technologists. Many companies offshored their technical tasks to reduce the manpower cost. Equipment companies are being forced to come up with innovative ways to cut the costs and speed up the time for new tool development. In such a critical situation smart outsourcing is an important way to reduce the risk of technology loss. If a company outsource the core competency jobs they will suffer from new competitors after a few years, because the outsourcing companies can enter to the market as a new brand with all transferred technologies.

Determining the kind of company that you want to form a strategic alliance with it, you have to take care of the type of tasks you are assigning for that company. For example if you are outsourcing manufacturing part of a part to different companies, it might not be necessary to give all detail of the drawing and analysis to them. The only thing that they need to know is to how make that specific part of you part. 

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Offshoring and Outsourcing Controversy

Offshoring of technical and research service jobs arose a new debate field in the US. Many of the high-payment, professional and technical positions, has recently been offshored. However, minimum cost is obtained by these offshoring programs but offshoring these technical fields may have potentially serious consequences for America's long-term national competitiveness. The business strategy of offshoring firm research and development (R&D) activities of critically important industries may result in lack of knowledge in the US in the long term. Offshoring high tech tasks like high tech manufacturing processes or researches may weaken the inside companies and may result in dependency on other countries in some technological areas for the US in a long term perspective. Consequently, during designing an offshoring or outsourcing program many technological aspects should be considered and they should be designed based on long term strategic planes for the firm and the country.

Disater Plan Terminology

In a disaster plan the standardization play an important role. Standardizing software, hardware, and procedure is required to maximize the efficiency of a disaster plan. The importance of standardization can be discussed as follows:

• Standards can keep disasters from happening.  Having the same standards for different planets can help to locate an issue more faster and a uniform platform can help to have a better troubleshooting process.
• Standards ensure that during a disaster the recovery plan will execute perfectly: Instructions in a standard ensure that during recovery and emergency condition the operator can do all tasks perfectly. For instance in standard of recovery plan it is pointed out that where is backup file, how it should be ran. In this way the recovery would be implemented with minimum risk of error.

However, having the same (compatible) wireless devices, besides a safe copy of all important documents is required in a disaster pal, we should not forget the importance of data security. Having all important data in a backup device should be implemented in a way to satisfies the security criteria too. One may encrypted all the data in the backup version to keep them secure.