NCC Members have free access to this Guideline on the Principia website.

What is offshoring?
In its widest sense 'offshoring' generally means undertaking work using labour that is normally based in a remote location. In practice this creates a wide range of scenarios that have characterised the growth and evolution of the IT offshore industry over the past 25 years. The various offshoring models can be summarised as follows:

• Onsite Contract Workers
• Pure Offshore Projects
• Onsite/Offshore Project
• Onsite/Nearshore/Offshore
• Offshore Development Centre (ODC)