Download or read book Strategic Sourcing of Information Systems written by Leslie P. Willcocks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-02-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent trends of outsourcing IT strategies are indicating that as well as providing some advantages there are also disadvantages. This guide provides an insight into ways forward by describing the experiences of real companies.
Download or read book Global Sourcing of Information Technology and Business Processes written by Ilan Oshri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 14 carefully reviewed and selected papers from the 4th Workshop on Global Sourcing, held in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 22-25, 2010. They have been gleaned from a vast empirical base brought together by leading researchers of outsourcing and off shoring. This volume is intended for use by students, academics and practitioners interested in the outsourcing and off shoring of information technology and business processes. It offers a review of the key topics in outsourcing and off shoring, populated with practical frameworks that serve as a tool kit to students and managers. The sourcing models available to client firms are discussed in great depth. Vendor capabilities as well as client capabilities are studied and links are offered to the various sourcing models. Issues pertaining to knowledge and expertise are also discussed. Last but not least, the book examines current and future trends in outsourcing and off shoring, paying particular attention to the role that CIOs will play in shaping their sourcing strategies.
Download or read book Strategic Sourcing Management written by Olivier Bruel and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12-03 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Sourcing Management examines procurement and supply management in detail, covering the three dimensions of competitiveness, effectiveness and efficiency. Written by Olivier Bruel, Professor Emeritus HEC Paris, and a team of contributing experts from academia, consulting and industry, the book is organised into four parts: strategic decisions; operational management of procurement and related supply chain; management of human resources and dedicated information systems; management of performance and change. This book has been written with a comprehensive global and coherent approach but the chapters are self-standing, enabling the reader to dip into different sections according to need. Strategic Sourcing Management considers both tactical and strategic perspectives that link with a corporate strategy and it includes dedicated chapters on how to set up a Strategic Sourcing function. The text is enriched with clear graphics and solid examples of best practice. Strategic Sourcing Management is a robust text based on both research and experience, so an essential reference for practitioners and academics working in or studying procurement and supply management. It is suitable for anyone involved in procurement and supply management at a senior level but also for general management enabling them to understand the mechanisms of value creation through Strategic Sourcing.
Download or read book The Strategic Management of Information Systems written by Joe Peppard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensively updated revision of a book regarded by many as one the leading and authoritative titles for practitioners, academics and students in the domain of information systems and technology (IS/IT) strategy. Presents a structured framework with tools, techniques and ways of thinking which provide a practical approach to building a digital strategy, expressed primarily in the language of business and management. Brings together the implications of the significant advances in IT and the most useful current thinking, research, and experiences concerning the business impact and strategic opportunities created by IS/IT. Peppard and Ward discuss the key questions that managers have to grapple with of where, when and how to invest in IS/IT, which is why a IS/IT (or digital) strategy is required.
Download or read book Spend Analysis written by Kirit Pandit and published by J. Ross Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spend analysis is a key component of strategic supply management. This book provides in-depth guidance on what spend analysis really is, what it specifically involves, and how to use it to help your organization achieve its full potential.
Download or read book Information Technology Outsourcing Transactions written by John K. Halvey and published by . This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book walks readers through an outsourcing transaction step-by-step: analyzing the benefits, selecting vendor, structuring the deal, managing the relationship. Provides managers with an organized methodical approach to the often intimidating prospect of relinquising absolute control of every aspect of a company's business.
Download or read book E Business Strategy Sourcing and Governance written by Gottschalk, Petter and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is based on the premise that it is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a modern business or public organization without at least some knowledge of the planning, use, control and benefits of information technology"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Managing and Using Information Systems written by Keri E. Pearlson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing & Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach provides a solid knowledgebase of basic concepts to help readers become informed, competent participants in Information Systems (IS) decisions. Written for MBA students and general business managers alike, the text explains the fundamental principles and practices required to use and manage information, and illustrates how information systems can create, or obstruct, opportunities within various organizations. This revised and updated seventh edition discusses the business and design processes relevant to IS, and presents a basic framework to connect business strategy, IS strategy, and organizational strategy. Readers are guided through each essential aspect of information Systems, including information architecture and infrastructure, IT security, the business of Information Technology, IS sourcing, project management, business analytics, and relevant IS governance and ethical issues. Detailed chapters contain mini cases, full-length case studies, discussion topics, review questions, supplemental reading links, and a set of managerial concerns related to the topic.
Download or read book Information Systems Outsourcing written by Rudy Hirschheim and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights research that contributes to a better understanding of emerging challenges in information systems (IS) outsourcing. Important topics covered include: how to digitally innovate through IS outsourcing; how to govern outsourced digitalization projects; how to cope with complex multi-vendor and micro-services arrangements; how to manage data sourcing and data partnerships, including issues of cybersecurity; and how to cope with the increasing demands of internationalization and new sourcing models, such as crowdsourcing, cloud sourcing and robotic process automation. These issues are approached from the client’s perspective, vendor’s perspective, or both. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to all researchers and students in the fields of Information Systems, Management, and Organization, as well as corporate executives and professionals seeking a more profound analysis of the underlying factors and mechanisms of outsourcing.
Download or read book Information Systems Outsourcing written by Rudy Hirschheim and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-13 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four years have been passed away since the first edition of this book has been published. While certain key issues on IS sourcing like determinants and application service provision have become more mature from an academic and industry perspective, additional topics have arisen on the horizon. In particular, offshoring and business process outsourcing have led to numerous insightful publications which offer a valuable and indispensable holistic sourcing persp- tive. Thus, the second edition of our outsourcing book deals with enduring themes, new perspectives, and global challenges. In addition to classical themes like Sourcing Determinants (Part I), Relationship Aspects (Part II), and Experiences (Part III), we felt it worthwhile to add three new parts. They cover information systems outsourcing from a Vendor and Individual Perspective (Part IV), Application Service Providing (Part V) as well as Offshoring and Global Outsoucing (Part VI). Again we have thoughtfully tried to arrange a compilation of contemporary outsourcing research as a primer and a platform for scientific discourse. In contrast to the first edition, this book is not the outcome of an International Conference, but rather an update of important and relevant perspectives. Since the Third International Conference on Outsourcing of Information Services will take place 2007 in Heidelberg, Germany, it may be considered as an epilogue for further interactions and discussions.
Download or read book Information Technology Strategy and Management Best Practices written by Chew, Eng K. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-01-31 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the principles and methodologies for crafting and executing a successful business-aligned IT strategy to provide businesses with value delivery.
Download or read book Strategic Issues in Information Technology Sourcing written by N. Venkatraman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Sourcing written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO reported in 2012 that the government is not fully leveraging its buying power for high-spending areas such as IT services, which accounted for more than $30 billion in fiscal year 2013. Leading commercial companies use strategic sourcing-a process that moves them away from numerous individual purchases to an aggregate approach-to better manage the services they acquire and achieve savings of 4 to 15 percent annually. GAO was asked to review strategic sourcing of IT services. This report addresses the extent to which selected agencies (1) manage IT services through strategic sourcing approaches, and (2) have insight into labor rates for similar IT services. GAO reviewed DOD (including the three military departments), DHS, and NASA, which collectively accounted for 53 percent of reported federal fiscal year 2013 IT services obligations. GAO analyzed agency policies, procurement and contracting data, and interviewed agency and contractor officials. GAO identified a high-spend IT service category and obtained labor rate information from a nongeneralizable sample of 30 contract actions awarded to two of the largest contractors common to these agencies.
Download or read book Information Systems Development written by Chris Barry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts, approaches and techniques of systems development emerge constantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from research as well as from practice. This conference will discuss issues pertaining to information systems development (ISD) in the inter-networked digital economy. Participants will include researchers, both experienced and novice, from industry and academia, as well as students and practitioners. Themes will include methods and approaches for ISD; ISD education; philosophical, ethical, and sociological aspects of ISD; as well as specialized tracks such as: distributed software development, ISD and knowledge management, ISD and electronic business / electronic government, ISD in public sector organizations, IOS.
Download or read book Implementing Strategic Sourcing written by Gad J Selig and published by Van Haren. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative, comprehensive, yet practical guide provides readers with a complete tool-kit of how to approach global sourcing successfully. Based on real world experiences on implementing and sustaining global sourcing the book provides readers with key guidance on: Foundations of Strategic Sourcing Management, risk, governance and legal considerations Organizational change, innovation and relationship management Transition planning and the end-game Successful principles for new business development from a service provider perspective Future trends, summary and lessons learned Ultimately this guide will take readers from ‘principles’ to ‘how to’s’ including: How to develop, implement, manage and govern an effective global sourcing strategy and plan How to put in place policies and processes that can be monitored to provide a balanced approach to sourcing How to build a strategic top-down framework coupled with an operational roadmap How to incorporate bottom-up implementation principles and practices that work How to ensure a coordinated, cost-effective and value-delivery plan and operating environment for strategic and tactical sourcing. In addition, it addresses the following areas in a comprehensive, yet easy to use and practical manner: Integrates strategic and operational concepts and practices Covers both clients and providers Supports the practice of global sourcing by leveraging and integrating professional rigor for best practices Provides practical knowledge, techniques, checklists and methodologies that can be used in any environment globally Includes many examples of current and emerging best practices Is broad and comprehensive, yet drills down to specific ‘how to’ details in all chapters Provides a global view of sourcing It comes highly recommended.
Download or read book Information Systems and Outsourcing written by M. Lacity and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at nearly 20 years of theoretical and practical research on IT outsourcing. The book explores how good IT outsourcing theories shape practice and how effective IT outsourcing practices inform theory. It highlights the importance of examining theories borrowed from economics, strategy, and sociology to study IT outsourcing.
Download or read book Strategic Issues in Information Technology written by N. Venkatraman and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Strategic Issues in Information Technology: Sourcing: Patterns, Perspectives, and Prescriptions The conventional wisdom in the information systems (IS) profession and the general business community appears to view information technology (IT) as an important component of corporate strategies. Extensive writings in professional journals and trade periodicals have consistently suggested that aligning IT strategy with business strategy is an important lever for success in the competitive marketplace. To move beyond casual observations, we at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology conducted a research study to examine the state of corporate IT strategy, with a particular focus on It outsourcing that is a current topic of considerable importance. During Fall 1991, we wrote to the CEOs of the Fortune 500 industrial and service corporations with an invitation to participate in our Study on Information Technology Strategy. We requested each of them to provide us with names of the senior manager with the overall responsibility for IT (CIO) as well as those heading three specific IT domains: application development, data center, and telecommunications/network. Subsequently, 209 corporations took part in our study (see Appendix for a complete list). The surveys were administered to the appropriate executives during Spring-Summer 1992. On November 19, 1992, we invited the CIO or a senior representative from each of the participating corporations to a symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This forum was co-organized by the Center for Information Systems Research, MIT and the Systems Research Center, Boston University. The responses of the participants during this meeting were generally enthusiastic. In fact, our understanding of the research issues was enriched through the various face-to-face conversations with the participants at the symposium. This report is a summary of the research conducted on It sourcing strategy at Sloan over the last year. It integrates the results drawn from our surveys of Fortune 500 corporations with other studies we conducted using secondary data sources. Further, it incorporates some of the insightful observations provided by speakers and audience during the symposium. The report is divided into three major sections - patterns, perspectives, and prescriptions. In the first section, we highlight the key patterns of changes relevant to IT strategy that we observed during the study. Using these patterns as a backdrop, in section two, we delineate several central perspectives on IT outsourcing. These perspectives highlight the major considerations that should guide outsourcing decisions and actions. The third section develops a set of prescriptions for viewing IT outsourcing as an important component of IT strategy. We conclude with our view of IT governance as a broader way of considering IT outsourcing decisions. This, we believe, would constitute the logic for managing the IT function in the 1990s and beyond. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
