Strategic Outsourcing: A Structured Approach to Outsourcing Decisions and Initiatives
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at
5:54 am
Strategic Outsourcing: A Structured Approach to Outsourcing Decisions and Initiatives
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Filed under: outsourcing
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Maurice Greaver has written a comprehensive and practical guide for any senior executive considering or currently undertaking an outsourcing initiative within their organization. The book clearly outlines and defines the issues to be considered when making outsourcing decisions along with the pitfalls to be avoided. Maurice Greaver has done this by developing a well defined process along with case studies, examples, and graphics to illustrate his process. These also make the book far more interesting to read than most other outsourcing books on the market. This book is a must read for every organization’s senior management team or for anyone interested in contemporary business issues and solutions.
Rating: 5 / 5
Our firm regularly benchmarks the outsourcing done by major corporations, and the most notable thing about this is that most companies do not have a well-thought-through process for outsourcing. This book provides a solution for that problem. To decide if you should outsource, you need to know how you measure up compared to the alternatives of eliminating the activity, simplifying it, improving it, and automating it. A major advantage of outsourcing that is demonstrated in our research is that it allows you to focus on doing fewer, more important things better (creating 2,000 percent solutions — getting 20 times the results with the same resources or 20 times faster results). Even if you adopt this process, you will want to exceed it in the future, so be sure you anticipate where the future best practice will be in outsourcing and what the ideal best practice is. Then be sure you exceed the future best practice and approach the ideal best practice. Do buy, read, enjoy, and apply the lessons of this excellent book to overcome your stalls about how to do outsourcing successfully.
Rating: 5 / 5
I was pleasantly surprised by STRATEGIC OUTCOURCING which deals not only with what to outsource but how to make the outsourcing decision using key two questions: Is this a core or strategic area? and What do I save and gain by outsourcing this activity? Peter Drucker believes that the reason to outsource is to free up critical management time to work on important things. If you happen to save some money in the process, that is an added benefit, but not the outsourcing driver. STRATEGIC OUTSOURCING also deals with the people and transitional issues, and how to manage the business and the employees once the activity is outsourced. If you have not outsourced anything except payroll and tax before, you must read this book. Another process that you must pursue primarily because of the time saved for management is described in THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION, by Mitchell, Coles and Metz. They describe a unique approach to achieve your goals in 1/20th the time by identifying and eliminating the stalls to progress and focusing on the best possible ways to reach your objective. Outsourcing may be one of them! I highly recommend both books.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book provides such a straight forward roadmap for outsourcing projects/decisions that I wish I had more projects to evaluate/manage. The roadmap provided is usable on the strategic decision or on the implementation of an outsourcing decision. I found it easy to read but also I found it an easy reference as a project unfolds.
Rating: 5 / 5