This week's edition of Business Week has a cover story on outsourcing. As part of the extended story they have a sidebar called the Modular Corporation where they use IDC estimates to look at the size of the outsourcing spend in 2005. Some interesting numbers:
- Logistics and Procurement $179 billion
- Manufacturing (electronics only) $170 billion
- IT $90 billion
- Customer Service $41 billion
- Engineering $ 27 billion
- Finance & Accounting $14 billion
- Human Resources $13 billion
- Analytics $12 billion
...and growing.
