OUTSOURCING NEWS: To outsource or keep it in the house & some recent developments

Car giants NISSAN and RENAULT SA intend to realize their goal of producing a budget car that will be sold at $3,000 by outsourcing its production to India. The launch of the new model is estimated to be with the year 2010.

Meanwhile, a school union is opposing the proposed outsourcing of transportation and food service by saying that it WOULD PROBABLY result in unreliable bus service, empty promises of savings and more than 140 district employees without jobs, according to a union leader.

In another article, the merits of outsourcing vs. keeping it on the house are tackled. For the meantime, the surge in outsourcing continues with SIEMENS IT being awarded a $42 M contract and NOVARTIS awarding the handling of IT infrastructure to British Telecom in a deal worth $500 million.

At this point, the surge of outsourcing seems not to have slowed.