In this non-core business activities are outsourced.
Sanitation and house-keeping functions are non-core for most organisations. For municipalities and sanitation service providers these activities comprise the core of their business activity.
In other words, depending upon what business a company is in, there will be some activities that are central while others are secondary as the organisations venture to experiment with. Outsourcing, they may initially, outsource only the non-core activities. Betlatu on, as they become comfortable, with managing interdepedencies, they may start getting even core activities done by outsiders.
