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CUTTER IT JOURNAL VOL. 22 NO. 8
CUTTER IT JOURNAL VOL. 22 NO. 8
CUTTER IT JOURNAL VOL. 22 NO.
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Struggling with the age-old challenge of too much demand and not enough time and resources to do it all? We all know what the solution is: focus on those things that yield the greatest value for your organization. Fortunately, two major methodologies -- portfolio management and lean -- have emerged over the past decade that can help you find and maintain that focus. But what if you could take these two proven approaches and bring them together? Would it work?
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Managers need to keep pace with rapid developments in global offshoring opportunities outside Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC). This Executive Report by Leslie Willcocks, Catherine Griffiths, and Julia Kotlarsky describes these developments and provides a 20-factor framework for assessing the location attractiveness of the emerging 120-plus countries offering offshore services.
From not enough resources to more demanding customers to the rapid pace of change, IT faces increasing challenges. And in the midst of all this, the business depends on us even more to find new ways to leverage technology to increase business competitiveness. IT must also deal with a variety of problems, such as legacy system costs, backlog of demand, and "solutions" that are often more hype than reality.
In a global offshore outsourcing market that saw some US $55 billion in revenue in 2008, Brazil, Russia, India, and China are commonly seen as the "BRIC" inheritors of globalization, offering both offshore IT and back-office services as well as huge potential markets (with their vast populations and developing economies). However, as of mid-2009, there are more than 120 other active offshore locations. All are looking for new business, and many are making strategic investments in developing scale and capability.
This Executive Report by Dr. Sara Cullen is the third in a four-part series on the outsourcing lifecycle. The series is based on a detailed understanding of the outsourcing experiences of 107 organizations. This report picks up where Part II left off and takes you through the final building block of the Architect Phase (Design) and the two building blocks of the Engage Phase (Select and Negotiate), the first two of four phases in the outsourcing lifecycle. These building blocks will have a crucial effect on how successful your outsourcing initiative will be.