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 2:

  • (required) Offshoring and Beyond, McKinsey Quarterly
  • (required) The Rise of India, BusinessWeek
  • (required) What Goes Around, The New York Times
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 2:

  • SD Shibulal
      Co-founder of Infosys and Director, Head - World-wide Customer Delivery. Shibulal has served as a Director from 1984 to 1991 and since 1997. He has served as Head Manufacturing, Distribution and Year 2000 Business Unit and Head Internet and Intranet Business Unit of Infosys since 1997.
      Please refer to the case studies and financial data at InfoSys.com to familiarize yourself with the company.
      Please see this link: http://www.infosys.com/engineering/default.asp
  • Joe Saliba
      President, U.S. and business process services. Founded in 1976, CGI is the largest Canadian independent information technology (IT) services firm and the fifth largest in North America, based on its headcount of 20,000 professionals.
  • Prof. Lester Thurow

    SloanSpace and Participation:

      By midnight on the evening before each class session, you are required to post one insightful comment or question pertaining to that week's required reading. To facilitate this, we have created a sloanspace to handle 15.967 SSIM: Outsourcing and Offshoring Spring 2004.

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