Abstract Time and Money are the two critical determinants in any business decision, especially decisions that affect outsourcing. It is easy to trade off and choose time against time or money against money- but what about decision that help the timing of a product or hurt its cost, or decisions that balance cost now vs. cost later? What, exactly, is the value of time, time locked in project delay, time frozen in inventory turns?
To make the value of time visible, this paper describes a quantitative methodology to make the "time vs. money" tradeoffs for the decisions associated with outsourcing the "system board" of an OEM product.