Product Description

Outsourcing is a $6 trillion global industry, and one of the most-discussed topics in business today. It also is one of very few business tools available to managers with the power to fundamentally transform their organizations. When implemented on a global scale, outsourcing enables companies to simultaneously reengineer existing operations, create a more flexible and adaptable organizational structure, and tap the best minds in the world to unleash an innovation explosion.

Whether you’re an executive considering outsourcing, work for a company that provides those services, or are concerned about your own career in this new outsourced economy, The Outsourcing Revolution: Why it Makes Sense and How to do it Right will help you better understand what is happening, what is likely to happen in the future, why, and how to take advantage of the opportunities being created. Outsourcing’s best-known expert and pioneer Michael F. Corbett – who has been writing and coaching executives on outsourcing’s best practices for more than a decade and helped craft IBM’s entry into the business – explains how to:

·Determine the value of outsourcing for any business process.
·Analyze the risks, evaluate their potential impact, and use a range of techniques to reduce, eliminate, and manage them.
·Identify, evaluate, and select the right partner or partners.
·Turn contractor relationships into long-term, successful outsourcing relationships.
·Transition people, processes, and technologies to the outsourcing state.
·Identify, develop, and reward outsourcing managers.
·Create new ways of doing business ahead of the competition.

The Outsourcing Revolution: Why it Makes Sense and How to do it Right is written for everyone affected by the new outsourced economy especially executives and managers in organizations of all sizes who want to learn how outsourcing can improve their company’s performance. Corbett has combined his decade-plus experience with outsourcing and globalization into a single, executable, management system.

Experts agree that we are just at the dawn of outsourcing. Over the next decade, as much as 70 percent of a typical executive’s budget will be outsourced, as it already is in manufacturing. This means that before too long, most organizations are going to be far more outsourced than they are in-sourced.

Outsourcing authority Michael F. Corbett believes that the practice helps build better businesses, stronger economies, and a more prosperous way of life for everyone and his book shows how to do it right. .

Learn:
·Key drivers, opportunities and challenges of contemporary outsourcing.
·A set of management principles that can be used to harness the power of outsourcing.
·A framework upon which to build a successful outsourcing program.
·Case studies of how specific companies planned, implemented, and are managing outsourcing.
·Survey results detailing what more than 1,500 companies worldwide are doing regarding outsourcing, why, and what does and doesn’t work.

More than a "how to" book, The Outsourcing Revolution provides a comprehensive framework for decision making and action based on the real-life experiences of executives heading up successful initiatives for their companies today.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #669863 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Released on: 2004-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

About the Author
Michael F. Corbett is head of Michael F. Corbett & Associates, Ltd., a research and training firm dedicated to advancing outsourcing as a powerful management discipline. With more than 20 years of experience, he has trained thousands of executives. He presents at dozens of conferences a year, chairs the Outsourcing World Summit, and authors an ongoing series of reports for Fortune magazine. Corbett is frequently approached by the media to offer his expertise on global outsourcing. In 2004, he has appeared on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CNN’s Lou Dobb’s Tonight and CNBC’s Power Lunch.

Customer Reviews

Industry has Evolved Far Past This Book
I suggest you check out the outsourcing books that have come out since this one was published as outsourcing changes quickly and this one is dated and routine.

Already, better information is obtainable on current outsourcing blogs.

That happens with books though. If they are not re-released frequently and the subject matter is evolving, they fall behind as this book has done.

This book has been on my shelf for about a year and I was dismayed to learn as another reviewer mentioned before me, that the author is a for-profit consulting firm's owner who openly (verified on his site) charges outsourcing vendors to be listed in an "Outsourcing 100" listing an "application fee" of several hundred dollars and he will assure list placement if you pay him $10,000!!!!!

Sadly, its bad form and very unbiased but that is how the world turns.

The styles and intentions of Business-focused authors versus Academic-focused authors are very easy to spot. This is no exception.

Be prepared...You're being pumped to buy consulting, not make your own intelligent solutions.

On the positive side, you'll think about where you might have holes in your outsourcing strategy.

Too much Theory - Not Enough Action
This book is good but I didn't like it as well as others because it doesn't deliver to the average manager or business owner. Too far over my head to really find the advice useful or applicable.

I Confirm and Verify Last Review...This Book Was Disappointment
There are good outsourcing how-to books that came out in 2005...I have two. I also bought Corbett's book through Amazon and gave it to the local library for their community rummage sale as it couldn't be returned for my money back. The info is dated and the advice is too subjective.