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- Holistic practitioner focused recommendations underpinned by academic rigour
- Contains detailed outsourcing decision making and off-shoring templates
- Details the eight principles to successful outsourcing programmes
- Each chapter includes an abstract at the beginning and a take-away at the end of the chapter, which serve as useful reference checklists for practitioners
- Detailed visual illustrations used throughout the book to help readers understand and digest key concepts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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London, United Kingdom
Bharat Vagadia
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Strategic Outsourcing
Book Subtitle: The Alchemy to Business Transformation in a Globally Converged World
Authors: Bharat Vagadia
Series Title: Management for Professionals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22209-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-22208-5Published: 27 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-27102-1Published: 30 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-22209-2Published: 27 October 2011
Series ISSN: 2192-8096
Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 228
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Management, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Operations Management