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  title info:
    title: Strategic Outsourcing
    sub title: The Alchemy to Business Transformation in a Globally Converged World
  name:
    name part: Vagadia, Bharat.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 228 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides a road-map to successful implementation of strategic outsourcing programmes, providing down-to-earth approaches to outsourcing decision making and programme management, based on a grass-roots understanding. A practitioner-focused book for business leaders and managers providing a holistic view of strategic outsourcing, covering the three essential pillars of success: risks, rewards and relationships. The author shows how business leaders can transform organisational business models, structures and mind-sets, taking the reader on a journey through the book's fifteen chapters, helping the reader truly grasp: the drivers for change as a result of globalisation and convergence and their impact on organisational strategies; how outsourcing can transform the various processes and functions of an organisation; the impact outsourcing is having on various industry vertical sectors; the eight foundations of successful strategic outsourcing programmes, which when combined with strategic decision-making knowledge, guarantees that organisations embarking on the strategic outsourcing journey, derive the transformational benefits they seek.
  table of contents: Role of Strategic Sourcing in a Changing World -- Globalisation and Convergence -- Social and Philosophical Considerations of Outsourcing -- From Tactical to Strategic Outsourcing -- Outsourcing Within Industry Verticals -- Strategic Outsourcing -- Sourcing Models -- Strategic Outsourcing Decision Governance -- Insights from Academic Research on Outsourcing -- Minimising Risk Through the Contract -- Minimising Risk Through Relationships -- Offshoring Leaders, Laggards and Hopefuls -- Managing Cultural Differences -- Implementing Successful Strategic Outsourcing Programmes.
  note: by Bharat Vagadia.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Production management
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
  subject:
    topic: Markets
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Business Strategy/Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Emerging Markets/Globalization
  subject:
    topic: Operations Management
  classification: HD28-70
  classification: 658.4092
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Management for Professionals
  identifier: 9783642222092
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22209-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 111025
    record change date: 20151204151824.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-22209-2