We’re big fans of outsourcing but some of the ideas in this briefing prepared by Booz Allen Hamilton for the Army are extreme versions of the concept. The point of this briefing, first published by “Wired’s Danger Room” is that you can leverage technology without having to invest in huge infrastructure. This means that our adversaries can become niche competitors relatively easily.
If sort of thing is your cup of tea, then check out the article we published about a year ago on Disruptive Technologies.