📗 Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This Essay seeks to make the case for the Business Process Outsourcing Strategy (BPO) as the new dawn in the business world underpinned by cost minimization. The essay examines the history of Business Process Outsourcing, the drivers of this strategy, the decision making process, the critical success factors and the BPO benefits and risks that Managers are likely to encounter in embracing BPO as strategy that gives the business the much needed impetus against competitors and mitigation mechanisms of these risks.