anonymous Mac Tech
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I was reading a chapter of my text for a Grad school class I'm taking focusing on globalization. It was covering Thomas L. Friedmans 10 factors of flatening concerning the effects of globalization.
Anyhow, One of the flateners named in-sourcing described as "the deligation of a company's core operations to a subcontractor that specializes in that operation." One example they named was UPS employees doing laptop repairs for Toshiba and a team of certified UPS technicians doing on-site computer repair and maintenance. A quick google search didn't bring up much of anything except this artile http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/07/01/374848/index.htm
The article is kind of outdated (July 2004). Just wondering if you guys have heard of them or seen them in action? I know Apple has to laptop mail in depots located in Memphis, TN and Houston, TX but these are Apple depots not UPS.
Anyhow, One of the flateners named in-sourcing described as "the deligation of a company's core operations to a subcontractor that specializes in that operation." One example they named was UPS employees doing laptop repairs for Toshiba and a team of certified UPS technicians doing on-site computer repair and maintenance. A quick google search didn't bring up much of anything except this artile http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/07/01/374848/index.htm
The article is kind of outdated (July 2004). Just wondering if you guys have heard of them or seen them in action? I know Apple has to laptop mail in depots located in Memphis, TN and Houston, TX but these are Apple depots not UPS.
Does that make me the Master of Pizza Techs? lol......
