\ I I t University-Based Knowledge Product Outsourcing Model Dave E. Marciall demarcial@su.edu.ph Abstruct Outsourcing is not new in this ever changing world. It refers to the process of subcontracting a process, such as product design or manufacturing, to a third-party company. Today, the IT outsourcing industry has matured. This paper highlights about outsourcing with emphasis on its scope of operation, importance and impact in the business process and industry in general. This paper describes the unique approach in a university- based knowledge product outsourcing. It presents a discussion on the dffirent resources in the operation and management of the university-based knowledge enterprise. The inception stage in the development of the outsourcing model is also described in this paper. The outsourcing process model presented in this paper highlights the following: faculty and staff as the htowledge provider, infrastructure as the outsourcing facility, business s'ector as the knowledge seeker, University-based as the business process, and product cost and income as the sharing of limited practice of profession. This paper further describes the features in the development of an online lwtowledge product outsourcing as a platfurm for an innovative knowledge enterpris e. Keywords : Business Process Outsourcing, Knowledge Product Outsourcing, Project Management, ICT in Education l.INTRODUCTION Outsourcing is not new in this ever changing world. It refers to the process of subcontracting a process, such as product design or manufacturing, to a third-party company (VentureOutsource.com, 2011).It plays significant impact to manufacturing and services (Bardhan and Kroll, 2003). It is simply the farming out of services to a third party. It is often used interchangeably and incorrectly with offshoring. Offshore outsourcin$ is, in fact, a small but important subset of outsourcing. It's where a company outsources services to a third parly in a country other than the one in which the client company is based, primarily to take advantage of lower labor costs. IT outsourcing clearly falls under the domain of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). But often CIOs will be asked to be involved or even oversee non-IT-related business 1 CoU"g" of Computer Studies, Silliman (Iniversity, Dumaguete Ci4t, Phitippines INFORMATIKA Vol. 8, No. 2, NOI/EMBER 2012 219