A telecommunications company chose to offshore to an Asian provider for collaboration, which was good at coding but not as good at the telecom business. As a result, they wasted time trying to develop business applications. The vendor’s role is to minimize the risks and possible negative sides, but in this case, they only created more problems. The provided IT services were so poor that the company made a decision to send this process back to the in-house team. Consequently, the client received nothing but financial problems and a stressful legal battle with the offshore partner. Define offshoring example.

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