Intelligent IT Offshoring to India: Roadmaps for Emerging Business Landscapes

ISBN-13: 9780230246263 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 210 str.

Wolfgang Messner

Opis

At a time when companies face increasing cost pressures, offshoring IT work to India not only offers the opportunity to reap factor cost savings, but also to industrialize the IT delivery process. Intelligent IT-Offshoring to India is a roadmap approach which enables organizations to discuss and organize the 'India option' in a learned manner. The book 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, which is centered around successfully running the offshore project by managing the relationship with the provider. This requires adopting a stringent construct of measures to improve the offshore link.

Spis treści

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 Conclusion

O autorze

Wolfgang Messner is a Principal with Capgemini. He is responsible for offshore delivery and focuses his advisory work on offshore
transformation. He has been on expatriate assignments to India for Capgemini as well as for Deutsche Bank, and was also a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. His four books, most recently Working with India (2009) and Rightshore! (2008; coeditors Anja Hendel and Frank Thun), and many journal publications deal with the business impact of information technologies and intercultural collaboration. He holds a doctorate from the University of Kassel (Germany), an MBA from the University of Wales (UK), and an advanced degree in computing science after studies at the Technical University Munich (Germany) and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK).