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Author Messner, Wolfgang, author.

Title Intelligent IT offshoring to India : roadmaps for emerging business landscapes / Wolfgang Messner
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 190 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Offshoring : India's Playground -- Considering Offshoring -- Readiness for India -- Normalizing India's Country Risk -- Selecting the Service Provider -- Successfully Running the Offshore Project -- Navigating Cultural Differences
Summary At a time when companies face increasing cost pressures, offshoring IT work to India not only offers the opportunity to reap savings in factor costs, but also to industrialize the IT delivery process. Intelligent IT Offshoring to India is a roadmap approach that enables organizations to discuss and organize the 'India option' in a learned manner. The book It opens with an explanation of offshoring, industrialization, and the role India plays in this context; it considers offshoring as a lifecycle and explores how it can help to achieve a company's business and IT priorities. Providing a framework for assessing the organizational and technical offshore readiness, as well as the risks involved, the book moves on to suggest a practical and lean provider selection process. It concludes by showing how active management of the relationship with the provider together with a stringent construct of measures lead to a successful offshore venture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from title screen (viewed on September 27, 2010)
Subject Contracting out -- India
Management & management techniques -- India.
Working patterns & practices -- India.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Outsourcing.
Business and Management.
Contracting out
India
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010280410
ISBN 9780230291263
0230291260
1349319392
9781349319398