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Five ways to reduce risk in outsourcing

What local governments can learn from a global outsourcing study

by WARD J
Published in January 2011 - Page 27

The US federal government reportedly spends $550 billion annually on outsourced products and services. While municipal governments certainly don’t have budgets to the same scale, they do function similarly, and outsourcing is a way of life. In fact, the municipality of Maywood, California (in Los Angeles County) recently voted to contract out virtually every public service it offered, firing all city employees, except for a handful of elected officials. Today, it has the rather dubious

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