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Publisher : Caps Research
ISBN 13 : 9780945968627
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (686 download)
Download or read book Outsourcing Strategically for Sustainable Competitive Advantage written by and published by Caps Research. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronan McIvor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139444583
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)
Download or read book The Outsourcing Process written by Ronan McIvor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsourcing has become an increasingly important issue for many organisations. This book provides a framework for an up-to-date understanding of the outsourcing process and the key issues associated with it. It integrates a number of contemporary topics including benchmarking, buyer-supplier relationships, organisational behaviour, competitor analysis, and technology influences. The analysis draws upon both empirical research and real case studies. The author starts by providing guidelines as to when outsourcing is appropriate and what its implications will be, before moving on to explain how outsourcing is implemented. The benefits of both successful outsourcing and the risks and consequences of outsourcing failure are outlined. The book is ideal for use by postgraduate students studying the area of outsourcing. It would also benefit industry managers who are considering outsourcing or who already have outsourcing programmes in place.
Author : Mo Elnadi
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640766385
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Global Strategic Management - Outsourcing in Domestic Electronics Industry written by Mo Elnadi and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 78/100, The University of Surrey (Business School), course: MBA - Global Strategic Management - Microsoft global outsourcing strategy, language: English, abstract: In today's global market, competition has become a race to acquire skills and competencies as well as a battle for market position especially in the domestic electronics industry where companies increasingly compete on responsiveness and flexibility, placing a premium on first-mover advantages.(Bryce et al., 1998) According to Slack, strategic decisions and tactics aimed at maintaining profitability and growth are derived from a firm's capabilities, resources and processes. (Slack et al., 2009b). Improving those performance drivers leads to competitive advantages that are significant in winning and maintaining customers, while gaining more business to the firm. (Slack et al., 2009a). Porter believes that a firm can outperform its rivals if it can establish a difference that it can preserve. This could be through delivering greater value to its customers or creating value at a lower cost, or both. Such differentiation arises from the choice of strategic objectives and how activities are performed better than rivals across the value chain. (Porter, 1996a) Each company decides on which performance building blocks (Figure 1) they wish to excel at to deliver a unique mix of value, and how to configure their value chain for best fit (Neely, 2008). This is done either through focusing on core competencies inside the firm itself, or leveraging external capabilities through outsourcing and partnerships. The goal of this paper is to discuss the main strategic reasons behind outsourcing, its importance to the domestic electronics industry and whether it can provide a sustainable competitive advantage to that sector. Furthermore, this paper will highlight the rationale behind outsourcing dec
Author : Walter L. Wallace
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0133889823
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Delivering Customer Value Through Procurement and Strategic Sourcing written by Walter L. Wallace and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Companies of all sizes are seeking to transform their procurement and supplier relationship management processes: activities that have a tremendous upside potential for improved supply chain effectiveness and efficiency. Now, two leading consultants and researchers offer a comprehensive approach to creating customer value through strategic sourcing and procurement. Unlike texts focused primarily on day-to-day operations and tactics, Delivering Customer Value through Procurement and Strategic Sourcing focuses on helping senior executives and managers gain sustainable competitive advantage from their supply chains."--Publisher's website.
Author : Maurice F. Greaver
Publisher : Amacom Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814404348
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Strategic Outsourcing written by Maurice F. Greaver and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsourcing is a strategic decision. This guide e×plores outsourcing involving fundamental questions about a company's future, core competencies, costs, performance, and competitive advantage. It shows how to use outsourcing as a strategic tool to create a focused, robust organization.
Author : Mário Franco
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1839684690
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Outsourcing and Offshoring written by Mário Franco and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsourcing and offshoring are typically viewed as phenomena allowing competitive advantages for organizations, but some studies have not included the risks, benefits, and challenges of these types of strategies. As such, this book fills this gap by combining several studies from different perspectives. The chapters follow several approaches and applications that researchers explore in different contexts. This book adds to the body of knowledge in outsourcing and offshoring areas and shows how these strategies can stimulate organizations’ development in various countries and regions worldwide.
Author : Rick L. Click
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471700975
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Business Process Outsourcing written by Rick L. Click and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is becoming the new revolutionas company's of all sizes are seeking to take advantage of thissource of competitive advantage. This book provides a step-by-step approach to understanding theapplication of Business Process Outsourcing, assessing the BPOopportunity in the company, and then managing the transition toBPO. It serves as a guide to implementing BPO and as a referencesource to solving the variety of issues that may arise during a BPOinitiative. Each chapter features a case study, insight from apractitioner, focus on how BPO affects people, and ethicalconsiderations. * Discusses both the how and why of business process outsourcingwith a straightforward "how to" approach. * Provides managers with the tools to analyse the BPO opportunitiesfor their own firms, as well as techniques and strategies formanaging a BPO initiative. * Empowers businesses of all sizes to take advantage of thisall-encompassing business revolution.
Author : Robert H. Lowson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134519028
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Strategic Operations Management written by Robert H. Lowson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text combines four themes: strategy, services, innovation and management of relationships, both in the supply chain and with other players. Mini case studies are used to supplement the text.
Author : Ian Chaston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136325697
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Strategy for Sustainable Competitive Advantage written by Ian Chaston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the adverse outcomes of the recent global recession and the public deficit crisis in the USA and Europe, Western companies can expect flattening or declining sales in their domestic markets. They will also face growing competition as Chinese firms seek to block the activities of foreign companies in their domestic market and expand their own operations in overseas markets. Survival and growth for Western companies is unlikely to come from sustaining current business practices based upon utilization of conventional approaches to strategic management; success will depend on exploiting new knowledge to stay ahead of competition. This book examines the strategic issues associated with the entrepreneurial utilization of new knowledge to create innovative products and services, accompanied by the development of leading edge, highly productive internal organizational processes. Through the use of appropriate theories and illustrative case examples, the text is designed to assist managers in Western organizations and business school students understand how to counter the increasing threats that are posed by the globalization of companies from emerging countries such as the BRIC nations.
Author : Roxane Gervais
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351933310
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Global Outsourcing Strategies written by Roxane Gervais and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most significant techniques to which companies and organizations have turned to improve service delivery and reduce costs has been outsourcing. Over the last 10 years, almost any process has been successfully outsourced. But during that period there have been failures too; projects that never realised their objectives or that had unforeseen impact on business. Global Outsourcing Strategies is a state-of-the-art guide to the best lessons to be learned for successfully implementing and outsourcing projects, or for revisiting existing operations. The 22 chapters explore some of the new areas for outsourcing, after traditional targets such as IT and finance. Information is provided on the different facets of the outsourcing process, such as contract negotiation, the risks involved in outsourcing, the need for service level agreements, the critical requirements needed to build and sustain outsourcing relationships, and ethical supply chain issues. There are also sections exploring the impact of outsourcing on organizational structures; the long term effects; legal issues; management control and inter-firm relationships; as well as case studies from both the public and private sector on the practical side of outsourcing. The book will appeal to practitioners and researchers alike. This is a must-have guide for any organization approaching outsourcing as a global (or local) strategy and for those organizations now reviewing or developing their outsourcing partnerships.
Author : Torben Pedersen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447149084
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)
Download or read book The Offshoring Challenge written by Torben Pedersen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuous search for efficiency gains and the goal of attaining a sustainable competitive advantage have steadily increased the volume of goods and services procured globally from third party vendors. In this context, named as “the next wave of globalization”, the offshoring phenomenon has stimulated research and political debates. With the rise of services offshoring, international value chain disaggregation for services has reached a formerly unknown scale. Also, it is increasingly complex transactions, requiring a higher degree of qualification, which are becoming subject to offshoring as well. The Offshoring Challenge: Strategic Design and Innovation for Tomorrow’s Organization features selected chapters by an international research community on the topic of offshoring. All potential business models from offshore outsourcing to third party providers are covered, from cooperative arrangements to internal organizational set-ups including captive offshore centers. Contributions have significant insights regarding: the increasing offshoring of knowledge-intensive services; the offshoring process; business models incorporating offshoring; the hidden costs of offshoring; and the administration of offshoring activities within firms The book is aimed at a broad audience of scholars, students and practitioners in the fields of strategy, international business and operations management.
Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799824497
Total Pages : 2100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Foreign Direct Investments: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 2100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization, accelerated by information technologies, has increased the speed of business transactions and has reduced the distances between international businesses. This growth has transformed the realm of foreign investment in countries around the world, calling for a methodological approach to planning feasible capital investment proposals in general and foreign direct investment projects. Foreign Direct Investments: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that explores the importance of global stocks to economic structures and explores the effects that these holdings have on the financial status of nations. It also provides a systems approach to investment projects in a globalized and open society. Highlighting a range of topics such as foreign direct investors, risk analysis, and sourcing strategies, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for business managers, executives, international companies, entrepreneurs, researchers, academicians, graduate students, policymakers, investors, and project managers.
Author : Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
Publisher : AA Global Sourcing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 144661400X
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Outsourcing: The Competitive Advantages written by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA and published by AA Global Sourcing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a number of core strategic questions which firms need to answer when entering into an outsourcing arrangement. The most significant is to what extent a firm should be prepared to outsource areas of potential competitive advantage. If one takes the view that outsourcing is driven by a desire to reduce costs, by buying into a consistent set of scalable processes which are shared across a number of organisations, then it follows that none of these areas should (or could) be sources of unique competitive advantage.
Author : Gad J Selig
Publisher : Van Haren
ISBN 13 : 9087535805
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (875 download)
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.
Author : Dr. Raghu Korrapati
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9385975897
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (859 download)
Download or read book 108 Best Practices to Build Sustainable Strategic Outsourcing Partnerships written by Dr. Raghu Korrapati and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: मैं बैठा उसी के पास में हूँ। फिर क्यूं उसकी तलाश में हूँ।। सबको मिल कर आता है वो। मैं भी उसके ख़ास में हूँ।। इसी संकलन से
Author : William J. Baumol
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195083903
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Convergence of Productivity written by William J. Baumol and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original articles looks at the convergence hypothesis, which asserts that since the Second World War, industrial countries were growing increasingly homogeneous in terms of productivity, technology, and per capita incomes. The book examines patterns displayed by individual industries within countries as well as the aggregate economies, influences that underlie the process of convergence, and the role that convergence has played and promises to play in the future. Contributors include: Moses Abramovitz, Alice M. Amsden, Magnus Blomstrom, David Dollar, Takashi Hikino, Gregory Ingram, William Lazonick, Frank Lichtenberg, Robert E. Lipsey, Angus Maddison, Gavin Wright, and Mario Zejan.
Author : Robert J. Trent
Publisher : J. Ross Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781932159677
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Strategic Supply Management written by Robert J. Trent and published by J. Ross Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Trent presents a framework for achieving sustainable competitive advantages in price and cost, quality, cycle time, technology, flexibility, and customer responsiveness through progressive strategy supply management leadership.
