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Outsourcing 'can cost competitive advantage'
By CLAIRE MCENTEE, The Dominion Post
Technology firms should be wary of outsourcing manufacturing overseas en masse, says the author of an annual IT industry report.
Firms looking to cut costs could lose something more valuable.
"If you divest manufacturing out of your value proposition and don't have that close integration between manufacturing and design and development ... you potentially abdicate a competitive advantage," says Technology Investment Network director Greg Shanahan.