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.

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Outsourcing is a great concept
This book gave me a logical and linear process to review the value of outsourcing in my business. I'm a marketing consultant to the accounting industry and my customers are always complaining about a shortage of qualified staff. Knowledgeable accountants are just plain not available to hire at just about any reasonable cost in the past 6 years. I liked the `value chain' process of determining what other functions could be outsourced in a business, not just to India but maybe local vendors as well. We discovered that with a little thought we might be able to move up to 40% of our operation off site this year, and possibly another 20% next year. I'm recommending to my accountant customers that they all consider hiring one to five staff from India and start moving all low value, boring tasks off shore. KC Truby The Lonesome Cowboy