MACMILLAN Technology and Offshore Outsourcing Strategies

Product Description Outsourcing has become one of the most important trends used in managing the enterprise during the last ten years and is now transforming the corporation. At the same time, it is one of the most talked about and hotly debated topics of our times. This book analyses these trends with leading outsourcing practitioners providing a strategic look at how the modern corporation can succeed through outsourcing, the pitfalls and hidden costs of offshoring, what to include in an outsourcing contract, and what outsourcing will look like in the future. About the Author GRAHAM BECK PA Consulting Group, UK DAN BHIDE Founder and CEO, Outsourcing Consulting and Management Corporation, USA JONATHAN CHEVALLIER BPO Market Development Director, Xansa, UK MIKE CHIASSON Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada SARA CULLEN Managing Director, Sara Cullen and Associates, Australia DARREN DALCHER Professor, Middlesex University, UK PAUL DAVIES Managing Director, Onshore Offshore Ltd, UK ASHOK C. DEVATA India AL DEXTER Professor Emeritus, Saunder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada DAVID FEENY Fellow in Information Management, Oxford University, UK MIKE FRIEND Research Manager, IDC, UK JEFF KAPLAN Founder & Managing Director, THINKstrategies, USA MARK KOBAYASHI-HILLARY Independent Outsourcing Consultant, UK RACHNA KUMAR Professor, United States International College of Business, USA MARY LACITY Professor of Information Systems, University of Missouri-St Louis, USA PAUL MORRISON Managing Consultant, ALS Consulting, UK HILARY ROBERTSON Xansa, UK THEOPHANIS STRATOPOULOS Assistant Professor of MIS at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, WSBE - University of New Hampshire, USA LESLIE WILLCOCKS Professor of Information Management and E-business, Warwick Business School, UK DAVID WOTHERSPOON Partner, Vancouver office, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Canada