15.967 Special Seminar in International Management - Offshoring
Analysis of Strategic, Economic, Technical, and
Organizational Aspects
E-mail outsourcing-staff@mit.edu with questions
Issues to consder:
How do US firms capture value from outsourcing?
What are the issues firms need to consider when deciding to offshore?
What are the different offshore models and how do they compare?
Readings for Class 1:
(required) Global Outsourcing of Professional Services
          General overview of issues to be covered in the class
Toward the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory
          Introduces paradigm for global delivery model with concurrent engagement on tasks from global teams
(required) McKinsey Global Institute: Offshoring: Is it a Win-Win Game?
          Report to understand forces behind offshoring and discover true impact to U.S.
U.S. Office of Technology Policy: Policy Strategy for Offshoring
          U.S. strategy for maintaining competitiveness with increasing offshoring
Summary of Legislative Bills to Curb Offshoring
          List of bills, mostly to ban offshoring of state contracts
(required) Sand Hill Group: The Roadmap to Offshore Success
          Insights and trends discovered from in-depth interviews of 51 software executives
Real World Offshore Development Practices
          Three page operational tips from a practicioner
Washington Alliance of Technology Workers
          One of the major unions of IT workers, with info on efforts to curb outsourcing
Speakers for Class 1:
Bob Suh, Accenture
          
Information about Accenture's Global Sourcing / Strategic Delivery Model
V. Srinivasan, ICICI-InfoTech
          
Google search for Srinivasan ICICI InfoTech
Satwant Khasla, ICICI-OneSource
          
Google search for ICICI OneSource
Dr. Sanjay Saini, MassGeneral Hospital
          
News articles detailing MGH offshoring of radiology work:
                    NYTimes: Who's Reading Your X-Ray?
                    Diagnostic Imaging: Globalization comes to radiology
                    Business Line
                    India New England News
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