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The Outsourcing Handbook
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The Outsourcing Handbook

How to Implement a Successful Outsourcing Process

Mark J. Power, Kevin C. Desouza and Carlo Bonifazi
Kogan Page, 2006

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This concise handbook offers a well-organized, comprehensive overview of the basics of outsourcing. Authors Mark J. Power, Kevin C. Desouza and Carlo Bonifazi identify the most common pitfalls in outsourcing, and offer a thorough life cycle approach to initiating, managing and terminating outsourcing engagements. Their style is pedantic in spots, but they never promised an exciting read, just a dependably solid and useful one. getAbstract finds that their brief list of outsourcing best practices deserves to be clipped and posted prominently in the office of any manager responsible for outsourcing programs, and other ongoing projects as well.

Take-Aways

  • Outsource to achieve value and strategic position as well as cost savings.
  • Take responsibility for defining your own needs. No outsider can possibly understand them as well as you do.
  • When shopping for vendors, use several criteria – not just one.

About the Authors

Mark J. Power is president and Carlo Bonifazi is vice president of an outsourcing education, process and consulting company in Chicago. Strategy consultant Kevin C. Desouza is on the faculty at the University of Washington. The authors have many years of senior executive experience in outsourcing.

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