Case study week 6 mgmt 598

QUESTION 1: What was the strategic advantage to Microsoft of outsourcing Xbox production to Flextronics?

QUESTION 2:  What were the risks associated with outsourcing to Flextronics?  Did Microsoft mitigate these risks?  Do you think Microsoft would have been better off making the Xbox itself?

QUESTION 3:  How did Flextronics’ industrial park strategy enable the company to respond to national changes in relative factor costs?