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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