Glossary
Opportunity costA key concept in economics, an opportunity cost is the cost related to the second best choice available to someone who has chosen from several mutually exclusive options. Thus it is a measure of what has been foregone by a particular course of action and expresses the basic relationship between scarcity and choice. Opportunity costs are not restricted to monetary or financial costs: the real cost of output foregone, lost time, pleasure or any other benefit that provides utility should also be considered an opportunity cost. |
OutsourcingOutsourcing is the contracting out by an organisation of a business function, typically previously carried out inside the organisation. |