Federal agencies’ mission scope is evolving and expanding on a daily basis, while their budgets remain stagnant, regulations keep them perennially understaffed, and new technologies necessitate unique ...

Alexandra Twin has 15+ years of experience as an editor and writer, covering financial news for public and private companies. Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in ...

Michele Hanson-O’Reggio calls it the “lone ranger” mind-set: the tendency of small-business owners to assume they can and should handle all business functions in-house rather than pay to outsource ...

A trend I’ve been noticing in the last several years is small business owners increasingly choosing to hire independent contractors. We’ve long seen businesses pay outside lawyers or accountants ...

Usually, when we say the "stars have aligned" in some way, it implies that something positive has happened – but this week we saw a rather unpleasant alignment of stars, with two of the industry's ...

In recent years, the concept of "outsourcing" has become a confusing term. Is turning over data center operations to Amazon Web Services a form of outsourcing? Of course, though it doesn't fit the ...

The Public Accounts Committee has said that government contracts still focus too much on the bottom line, rather than value. Outsourcing challenges remain. MPs on the influential Public Accounts ...

Hospitals have long embraced the practice of outsourcing some services to specialized companies. Much of this outsourcing is for nonclinical tasks such as laundry, information technology and ...