The Outsourcing Revolution: Why It Makes Sense and How to Do It Right

Whether you’re an executive considering outsourcing, work for a company that provides those services, or are concerned about your own career in this new outsourced economy, The Outsourcing Revolution: Why it Makes Sense and How to do it Right will help you better understand what is happening, what is likely to happen in the future, why, and how to take advantage of the opportunities being created. Outsourcing’s best-known expert and pioneer Michael F. Corbett – who has been writing and coaching executives on outsourcing’s best practices for more than a decade and helped craft IBM’s entry into the business – explains how to:

В·Determine the value of outsourcing for any business process.
В·Analyze the risks, evaluate their potential impact, and use a range of techniques to reduce, eliminate, and manage them.
В·Identify, evaluate, and select the right partner or partners.
В·Turn contractor relationships into long-term, successful outsourcing relationships.
В·Transition people, processes, and technologies to the outsourcing state.
В·Identify, develop, and reward outsourcing managers.
В·Create new ways of doing business ahead of the competition.

The Outsourcing Revolution: Why it Makes Sense and How to do it Right is written for everyone affected by the new outsourced economy especially executives and managers in organizations of all sizes who want to learn how outsourcing can improve their company’s performance. Corbett has combined his decade-plus experience with outsourcing and globalization into a single, executable, management system.

Experts agree that we are just at the dawn of outsourcing. Over the next decade, as much as 70 percent of a typical executive’s budget will be outsourced, as it already is in manufacturing. This means that before too long, most organizations are going to be far more outsourced than they are in-sourced.

Outsourcing authority Michael F. Corbett believes that the practice helps build better businesses, stronger economies, and a more prosperous way of life for everyone and his book shows how to do it right. .

Learn:
В·Key drivers, opportunities and challenges of contemporary outsourcing.
В·A set of management principles that can be used to harness the power of outsourcing.
В·A framework upon which to build a successful outsourcing program.
В·Case studies of how specific companies planned, implemented, and are managing outsourcing.
·Survey results detailing what more than 1,500 companies worldwide are doing regarding outsourcing, why, and what does and doesn’t work.

More than a 'how to' book, The Outsourcing Revolution provides a comprehensive framework for decision making and action based on the real-life experiences of executives heading up successful initiatives for their companies today.

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