The Outsourcing Handbook: How to Implement a Successful Outsourcing Process

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Kogan Page, 2006 - 222 pages
Outsourcing is now increasingly used as a competitive weapon in today's global economy. The Outsourcing Handbook is a step-by-step guide to the whole outsourcing process. It looks at key factors in the success of a project as well as problem areas and potential pitfalls. It provides an objective, repeatable process that allows organizations to maximize returns on outsourcing investments. Unlike most outsourcing books, The Outsourcing Handbook takes a process-oriented, actionable, and structured approach to understanding the intricacies of constructing, managing, and even terminating an outsourcing engagement.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Ten common traps of outsourcing
20
How to manage outsourcing engagements successfully
30
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About the author (2006)

Mark J Power is President of ROS Incorporated, an outsourcing education, process and consultancy company based in Chicago, Illinois. For over 15 years he has designed, implemented and managed multimillion-dollar manufacturing, IT and BPO outsourcing initiatives around the globe. Mark is a pioneer in the outsourcing education field as the designer and instructor of the Outsourcing Certificate and Outsourcing Boot Camp university accredited education series. Mark's multimedia-based Strategic Outsourcing Framework education series has been sold in 12 countries around the globe. Kevin DeSouza is on the faculty of the Information School at the University of Washington. He was previously Director of the Institute for Engaged Business Research, a think tank of the Engaged Enterprise, a strategy consulting firm with expertise in the areas of knowledge management, crisis management, strategic deployment of information systems, and government and competitive intelligence assignments.Kevin DeSouza is the author of Managing Knowledge with Artificial Intelligence, and co-author of Managing Information in Complex Organisations and Engaged Knowledge Management. He is also the editor of New Frontiers of Knowledge Management. Kevin currently serves as a Senior Strategic Adviser to the Engaged Enterprise. Carlo Bonifazi is co-founder and Vice-President of ROS Incorporated. Carlo has 20 years' experience in diverse technology-related fields and has lead numerous global outsourcing product development and IT initiatives including CTI application development, network infrastructure, telecommunications, security, CRM and ERP implementations.

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