Product Description

A top Fortune 500 consultant helps you to implement and manage a successful outsourcing initiative

Many leading companies have incorporated outsourcing as a strategic part of their management strategy. The Manager’s Step-by-Step Guide to Outsourcing delivers an in-depth guide to navigating the complex world of outsourcing and effectively planning and implementing their outsourcing strategy. This guide shows how to select areas of business for outsourcing, choose an outsourcing partner, build a winning team, create an effective transition plan, deal with concerns of employees, and avoid common pitfalls.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #208209 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-01
• Released on: 2006-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

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From the Back Cover

Many of today's leading companies are incorporating outsourcing as a strategic part of their management philosophy--and it's happening at speeds and levels unforeseen just a few years ago. If your business is looking to cut costs, increase efficiency, and, above all, stay ahead of your competition, then outsourcing could be the answer you've been looking for!

The Manager's Step-by-Step Guide to Outsourcing delivers an in-depth, easy-to-follow blueprint for effectively planning and implementing a successful outsourcing strategy in any size company, in any industry. Top Fortune 500 consultant Linda Dominguez dispels the myths about outsourcing and provides the necessary skills and tools managers need to:

• Select areas of your business to be outsourced
• Choose the right outsourcing partner and build a winning team
• Create an effective transition plan--regardless of time constraints
• Deal with concerns of employees and stockholders
• Work through language and cultural barriers
• Avoid the pitfalls other companies have experienced

About the Author

Linda R. Dominguez is the founder and principal of Executive Coaching and Resource Network, where she consults with the Fortune 500 on performance management and strategy. Her clients range from senior executive individuals to a diverse blend of corporations and organizations, including US Bank, Oracle, Cisco Systems, Intuit, The Scotts Company, Bell Sports, and Dow Jones. Dominguez is a regular speaker who also contributes to various print media, such as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Training Magazine, and Mobility Magazine.

Customer Reviews

An excellent book on the outsourcing process and its management!
Linda Dominguez's book is not just another book describing the outsourcing process. Besides that there is a whole chapter devoted to exit management which is a very sensitive and essential part of the outsourcing management process.

The book deals with outsourcing in an international context and therefore a chapter has also been devoted to the management of cultural and language barriers which is rarely covered to such an extent in a book.

The only downside of the book is that there aren't many illustrations to explain or indicate what is being said throughout the chapters. Moreover, some of the outsourcing team names are different. However, that doesn't pose too much a problem.

I would highly recommend this book to any outsourcing professional and IT professionals interested in effective IT outsourcing not only in its 'local' sense but also in its 'global' meaning.