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Hewlett-Packard: Creating a Virtual Supply Chain (B)

2002
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This case is a short (2-page) follow-up to the A-case: IMD-6-0252 and should be used together with it. The case relates the story from July 2001 to July 2002, illustrating the complications encountered in finalizing the outsourcing agreement. It summarizes Derek Gray's personal learning points and reflections on the outsourcing decision. The case invites participants to think about the implementation challenges for the following year and how to measure the success of the outsourcing.

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Outsourcing

Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another. The term outsourcing, which came from the phrase outside resourcing, originated no later than 1981. The concept, which The Economist says has "made its presence felt since the time of the Second World War", often involves the contracting out of a business process (e.

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In the mathematical field of measure theory, an outer measure or exterior measure is a function defined on all subsets of a given set with values in the extended real numbers satisfying some additional technical conditions. The theory of outer measures was first introduced by Constantin Carathéodory to provide an abstract basis for the theory of measurable sets and countably additive measures.

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In mathematics, the concept of a measure is a generalization and formalization of geometrical measures (length, area, volume) and other common notions, such as magnitude, mass, and probability of events. These seemingly distinct concepts have many similarities and can often be treated together in a single mathematical context. Measures are foundational in probability theory, integration theory, and can be generalized to assume negative values, as with electrical charge.

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