Managing Your Outsourced IT Services Provider: How to Unleash the Full Potential

Description: Managing Your Outsourced IT Services Provider by Venkatesh Upadrista Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Managing Your Outsourced IT Services Provider teaches executives and managers of organizations how to unleash the full potential of their outsourced IT services workforce and IT-enabled business processes safely and profitably. Publisher Description Managing Your Outsourced IT Services Provider teaches executives and managers of organizations how to unleash the full potential of their outsourced IT services workforce and IT-enabled business processes safely and profitably. Drawing on two decades of experience managing client relationships for global IT services companies, Venkatesh Upadrista guides outsourcing organizations around the hazards of geographic distance, linguistic miscommunication, organizational mismatch, and functional disparity between receiver requirements and provider capabilities.The first half of the book describes what an outsourcing organization needs to know about the IT services providers industry in general to deal intelligently with specific providers: namely, the industrys organizational types, strategic drivers, competitive labor market constraints, and tactics for hitting P&L targets. The second half of the book teaches outsourcers how to evaluate prospective providers, craft service level agreements, formalize best practices, and manage the full gamut of receiver"provider relationships to optimize outcome in terms of cost, timeliness, and quality of services received.The descriptions and prescriptions in Managing Your Outsourced IT Services Provider apply equally to onshore and offshore outsourcing, but examples and case studies focus on offshoring. In addition, Upadrista analyzes the advantages, disadvantages, and special considerations and caveats of single provider outsourcing and captive centers. Author Biography Venkatesh Upadrista is a global client executive at CapgeminiFinancial Services in Amsterdam. He was formerly a global solutions manager atTata Consultancy Services, a client partner at Wipro Services, a CIO partner atMcKinsey & Co., and a manager at Cognizant Technology Solutions. He is theauthor of Managing Offshore DevelopmentProjects and Distributed Agile: TheProven Agile Software Development Approach and Toolkit for GeographicallyDispersed Teams. Upadrista took his degree in mathematics and computerscience from Andhra University. Details ISBN 148420803X ISBN-13 9781484208038 Title Managing Your Outsourced IT Services Provider Author Venkatesh Upadrista Format Paperback Year 2014 Pages 152 Edition 1st Publisher APress GE_Item_ID:140576973; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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