Operational Risk and Resilience

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avoiding being swamped with extra administration during

a period of growth; and

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minimizing need to accelerate a learning curve in a new

business area, or conversely, to cut the need for investment

and to avoid placing the quality and efficiency of an exist-

ing outsourcing service at risk.

Probably the most significant driver of outsourcing is the

relatively new tendency for companies to focus on core

competencies. More organizations are thinking ahead and

enquiring how they can acquire core competencies, at

what price, in what time-scale, in order to compete success-

fully in the future. Many have established chief resource

officers to oversee change and ...