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How Outsourcing to China Rescued INVISTA

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

INVISTA, which owns brands like Lycra, had promised the industry an online fabric library. The CEO had sent letters to thousands of companies announcing the system would go live by October 4. In June it discovered its supplier was failing. It hired Freeborders, whose teams in the US, Europe, and China delivered the library three weeks early.

Is Your Information Secure? Outsourced IT Still Requires In-Sourced Risk Assessment

Bruce Leshine, Jorden Burt LLP

Outsourcing your IT doesn’t relieve you of security obligations. Try telling the CEO that it’s alright that you lost customer information because we have an IT outsourcing contract. Just don’t tell him about the supplier’s limitation of liability provision. Attorney Bruce Leshine shares legal ideas to protect your data in an outsourced environment.

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