Question 1: What types of value chain activities should a company consider for outsourcing?
Question 2: What are the risks to outsourcing too much of the value chain?
Question 3:From a strategic viewpoint, what types of the value chain activities should a company never outsource?
Class
The discussions will be graded for the following two criteria:
1. Frequency—Number and regularity of your discussion comments. Students are expected to log into the course and post (respond) in the discussion topics on a minimum of three separate days per week in each graded discussion, beginning no later than Wednesday.
2. Quality—Content of your contributions. Examples of quality posts include:
- providing additional information to the discussion
- elaborating on previous comments from others
- presenting explanations of concepts or methods to help fellow students
- presenting reasons for or against a topic in a persuasive fashion
- sharing your own personal experiences that relate to the topic
- providing a URL and explanation for an area you researched on the Internet
Full credit is awarded when both high quality and required frequency is met.
Dr. E
