From Outsourcing To Global Collaboration: New Ways To Build Competitiveness
- Topics:
- Outsourced Services
- Tags:
- Business Operations,
- Collaboration,
- Enterprise Software,
- Groupware,
- Harvard Business School,
- It Operations,
- Outsourcing,
- Outsourcing & Subcontracting,
- Software
- Source:
- Harvard Business School
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Overview: Many companies have successfully used outsourcing to lower costs. But, unless the company's efforts are unusually good, true competitive advantage is fleeting when competitors begin outsourcing and achieving similar results. To build sustainable competitive advantage, leading companies are now using an advanced form of outsourcing, dubbed global collaboration, to drive new revenue, quicken time]to]market, and increase innovation. Global collaboration impacts their top as well as bottom lines. Effectively adopting this advanced approach requires adjustments to traditional outsourcing strategy and processes. To understand these changes better, the Product Strategy and Architecture practice within Wipro Technologies teamed with Alan MacCormack, Harvard Business School, to study 45 global collaboration projects.
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Format: PDF | Size: 961KB | Date: May 2007 | Pages: 20
