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= media type="custom" key="6297889"There are many aspects to the business side of things, including outsourcing. Outsourcing, by book definition is an organization passing the provision of a service or the execution of a task previously undertaken in-house to a third party to perform on its behalf. In layman's terms, outsourcing is paying someone to do something for you. It could be outsourcing a job to India, or just across the street. Understanding the concept without examples may be difficult, so here are some real life examples of outsourcing. Outsourcing can be used in many businesses, even some of the big names like Dell. Dell, as you may know, is a huge business that sells computers. An example of outsourcing in Dell would be the company buying some of the computer components. They could produce many of the items needed for a computer, but it would be cheaper for them to buy it off of another company, rather than producing it themselves. If the company that sold Dell the products was within North American, it would be considered inshore outsourcing. This example of outsourcing is done to save money and labor, but others aren't always like that. Another example of outsourcing would be paying someone to do something. Take a company like Apple. They may not want to deal with all the calls that come in about their products. They could decide that they wanted someone else to deal with them. In that situation, they could pay a company in say India to take the calls for them and send them the information they need. Assuming Apple was in the U.S, this example would be called offshore outsourcing because India is international. Outsourcing is effective, yet simple and is used in many businesses around the world, whether small or large. Now that you understand the main idea of what outsourcing is, you can proceed to look at the rest of the project. =