Book on Offshore Outsourcing

Did you ever want to know how succesful Outsourcing projects are executed? Learn from an offshoring expert.

Outsourcing and Offshore IT sourcing offers many advantages, but executing offshoring is complicated. Since the number of books on this topic is limited, Mohan Babu K, a technologist at Infosys Techlologies Ltd. has drawn his observations and research in the recently published book "Offshoring IT Services: A framework for managing outsourced projects." (Publisher: McGrawHill, India) It contains more than 270 pages and is one of the most informative and detailed publications available on the subject. The book includes practical insight, strategic guidelines, interviews with experts, and case studies.

The book examines some of the emerging trends and practices of managing  offshored projects and explores practical ideas. It also bridges the gap between offshoring strategies and execution of globally distributed IT projects by introducing an Offshoring Management Framework [OMF], a vendor-neutral way of approaching offshoring strategies for execution and management. The Framework is intended to be adopted by IT executives and managers at 'both ends' of the offshoring spectrum: at outsourcing organizations and at service delivery firms, onsite and offshore. The thrust is on enabling managers to be comfortable in managing global delivery projects. The book also addresses the challenges of managing onsite and offshore teams, the time and distance challenges of outsourced projects.

This book explains the intricacies involved in the practice of offshoring and covers a comprehensive range of important offshoring issues: from cost advantages and strategy, to execution of projects and programs and aspects of cultural differences and communication. The book concludes with an analysis of some of the key aspects pertaining to external landscape and Offshoring Management including the Technology Landscape, Knowledge Management, Globalization and the Economic Environment.

The book is written for CTOs, CIOs, consultants, IT executives and managers. The book is also intended to be a primer on Offshoring and Outsourcing for students of technology and management

Recent review of the book in Express Computers: http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20060403/technologylife03.shtml

More about the book: http://www.offshoringmanagement.com/theBook.htm About the author: http://www.garamchai.com/mohan Received on Thu Aug 31 2006 - 14:43:37 CDT