Student Name: Institution: Course: Instructor: Date of Submission: Strategic Outsourcing Strategic outsourcing is the process that has been adopted by many companies to get services from service providers other than having in-house departments that carry out these tasks. Companies worldwide have been engaging providers of critical services that they feel it would not be cost-effective to handle them internally. This article by James Quinn and Fredrick Hilmer takes a critical review on the forces that push companies towards outsourcing of the services and how companies can leverage on their competencies available within the organization (Quinn & Hilmer, 1994 p43). The move to strategic outsourcing is necessitated by the need to use all the competencies available in an organization optimally and gain competitive edge in the market. The writers of the article Strategic Outsourcing are concerned with suggesting ways that the management of organizations can uses to ensure that their organizations leverage on the available competencies within the organization while at the same time to get an understanding of which services can be outsourced cost-effe