Public sector outsourcing – get ready for round two

So, it’s finally happened. The public sector has been told, in no uncertain terms, that outsourcing, real no nonsense outsourcing, will be necessary in 2010 and beyond. After both the Tories and Gordon Brown’s ailing government both openly admitted that public sector spending cuts are necessary, those on the economic front-line are starting to work [...]

Offshoring’s sooty secret?

I picked up on an interesting news story this week that opens up a whole can of worms for the sourcing industry and the process of globalisation as a whole. The concept of ‘embedded’ greenhouse gas emissions has been covered numerous times before, but not by someone so close to the incumbent government. This week, [...]