Global Services Outsourcing - Softcover

Ronan Mcivor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107670179 ISBN 13: 9781107670174

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Services outsourcing is an increasingly attractive option for firms seeking to reduce costs and achieve service improvements. Many organisations now choose to transfer responsibility for entire functions such as human resources, finance and information technology services to both local and global vendors. Yet outsourcing such functions is a complex process, one that is driven by factors that transcend cost considerations alone. Issues such as service design, unbundling processes, managing work across different cultures and time zones, and business process redesign have all become important elements of managing services outsourcing arrangements. This book uses tools and techniques from a variety of disciplines to show how to successfully plan, implement and manage services outsourcing arrangements. Based on in-depth analysis of large-scale outsourcing arrangements across a wide range of sectors, this is an excellent resource for both academics and practitioners who wish to understand more about this complex phenomenon.

About this title

Book Description:

Services outsourcing is an increasingly attractive option for firms seeking to reduce costs and achieve service improvements. This book uses tools and techniques from a variety of disciplines to show how to successfully plan, implement and manage services outsourcing arrangements.

About the Author:

Ronan McIvor is Professor of Operations Management at the University of Ulster. He has carried out extensive research in the area of outsourcing and supply chain management. He is the author of a number of books, including The Outsourcing Process: Strategies for Evaluation and Management (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107670179
• ISBN 13: 9781107670174
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298