Outsourcing Megadeals Not the Rage They Once Were
When Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that it would sign a $1.2 billion IT services contract with The Nielsen Company on Oct. 18, the outsourcing world was atwitter with talk of what this-presumably the first major Indian megadeal-says ... [... more]
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Shell Signs $4 Billion, Multi-Supplier Outsourcing Deal
Royal Dutch Shell has signed a five year, $4.0 billion outsourcing deal with three global IT and telecommunications suppliers. Shell announced it has contracted T-Systems, AT & T; and EDS under a master service agreement (MSA), for "significant . [... more]
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ABC: An Introduction to Outsourcing
Should I outsource everything to one vendor? Or should I use a best-of-breed approach? How important is ongoing relationship management to outsourcing success? What if outsourcing doesn't work out? Can I just bring the work back in? There are as ... [... more]
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Security Secrets of Outsourcing
I would say that it's a landscape that is becoming more defined and is gaining awareness overall. Companies have learned that they need to be security-aware with outsourcing. And, ultimately, one of the most important lessons is that you can't ... [... more]
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The Evolution of Outsourcing
If CIOs were to believe everything they hear from vendors, they would think that outsourcing had taken over the world and there were no in-house IT departments left. While this patently is not the case, it is true to say that the market is ... [... more]
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U.S. Appetite for Outsourcing Deals Slowing Down
The total contract value of outsourcing contracts signed in the third quarter of 2007 was down 16 percent, with the actual value of the contracts signed shrinking as well, according to outsourcing adviser TPI. At the heart of the decline: the ... [... more]
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Communication: The Holy Grail of Outsourcing
It is striking how most everyone will insist that communication is a key activity to successful outsourcing. So why the heck can it be so darn hard to make people within an organization understand what is going on? And why is it so hard to have ... [... more]
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Outsourcing Information Security (Computer Security Series)
 A Must Read!: This book provides a great overview of the issues surrounding the decision to outsource information security and also gets into specific issues and recommendations chapter by chapter. Outsourcing Information Security is written clearly and [... more]
$85.00
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CMMI(R) for Outsourcing: Guidelines for Software, ...
perhaps not too different from (regular) CMMI: CMMI is a heavyweight process for software development, as well you should know, if you are at all considering this book. The twist here, compared to earlier books that focus exclusively on CMMI, is what [... more]
$54.99
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Global Information Technology Outsourcing: In Search of ...
Must reading for anyone interested in IT outsourcing: I have read, or have tried to read, books on the subject of IT outsourcing, to better understand the issues. This book is the single best book on the subject I have ever purchased. It is well [... more]
$105.00
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Global Outsourcing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 ...
A Software Assist to Communications.: This book is indeed about global outsourcing, but it deals with the outsourcing of software not athletic shoes or kitchen ware. Specifically, as you might guess from the title, it concentrates on the use of Microsoft' [... more]
$49.95
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The Insider's Guide to Outsourcing Risks and Rewards
An excellent, objective, been-there done-that book on outsourcing: There's a lot published on the subject of computing outsourcing. A lot of it is hype - hand-wringing scenarios about how good or bad it's going to be. A lot of it is academic - material [... more]
$88.95
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