Three waves of outsourcing led to increased intellectual property creation. The first wave involved labor-intensive businesses seeking to reduce costs. The second wave focused on establishing quality assurance processes. The third and most recent wave was the rise of knowledge process outsourcing and businesses recognizing that uniqueness could lead to intellectual property creation through outsourcing.

1. Three Waves of Outsourcing Leading to IP Creation

2. A labour intensive business created cost. 1 Labour Intensive Cost involvement

3. Such Labour intensive businesses needed to ensure quality in the next level of commerce. To ensure the best quality processes were laid down. 2 Quality Assuarance Processes in an Organisation

4. Further to lower the costs processes were outsourced and hence ‘KPO’. The knowledge based era where uniqueness was the ubiquity IP creation was brought into light. 3 KPO IP Creation

5. 1 Three waves Note: Please don’t steal this since it does not have a Patent  Labour Intesive Cost Involvement IP Creation Processes in an Organisation Quality Assuarance KPO 2 3