Contracting out “non-core” functions of a business to reduce costs.
Increasing coordination costs can be a problem - heavily outsourced firms can end up using all their capacity doing nothing but coordinating subcontractors.1 There's a sort of Resilience vs Efficiency tradeoff to it: As firms outsource more and more, they get things for cheaper but lose the ability to get different things (or even understand what kind of different things they might want).
bert hubert, “How Technology Loses out in Companies, Countries & Continents and What to Do About It” (January 16, 2021), https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/.