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Outsourcing Journey – Titan Way

In late 1999, the top management of Titan Industries Ltd. (Titan), India’s leading watch, clock and jewelry manufacturer, was surprised when several senior executives threatened to resign. The threats reportedly came after a long period of employee unrest in the organization. The reason behind the unrest was the company’s decision to increase the level of outsourcing in its manufacturing activities while limiting production facilities for just assembling purposes.

Titan’s Vice-Chairman and Managing Director Xerxes Desai (Desai) quickly issued a statement stating that the above was not true. However, this was in sharp contrast to his earlier statements in the media. In an interview to a business magazine1, Desai had remarked, “We will manufacture only if we can do it faster and cheaper than anyone else in the world.” Even as the company worked towards explaining its strategies clearly to the employees, analysts could not help remark that Titan was already sourcing a large part of cases and movements, key watch components, from within and outside India…click here to read ahead

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