9/15/09--Outsourcing in North Dakota

I've never thought of North Dakota as a mecca of outsourcing. The idea of global being "not mine" is a new way of looking at outsourcing for me. I actually hadn't put much thought into outsourcing prior to the class assignment. To me, outsourcing meant having part of the work of an organization outsourced to India or China. The idea of it being a source of competitive advantage had never occurred to me.

I still have a hard time thinking of global meaning just "not me". If the work is still being done in the U.S., it doesn't seem 'global' to me. The term global has an international connotation for me. But it's something to think about.