Essays about: "Outsourcing Practices"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 36 essays containing the words Outsourcing Practices.

  1. 16. Integrated versioning and collaboration process management of automotive production lines based on an artifact-centric collaboration environment

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation

    Author : Olena Kutsenko; [2013]
    Keywords : collaboration; artifact-centric concept; process artifacts; versioning;

    Abstract : While collaborative engineering in outsourcing projects presents potential benefits to the partners, it involves some risks and reasonable concerns. First, a poor mechanism of data exchange and data communication can lead to loss of effectiveness and efficiency of the project. READ MORE

  3. 17. A Multiple Case Study on Contradictions and Pre-conditions for Outsourcing Agile Software Development Projects

    University essay from Företagsekonomi; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Maksim Buslovic; Samson Deribe; [2012]
    Keywords : Agility; Agile Method; Contradictions; Pre-conditions; Outsourcing;

    Abstract : Title: A Multiple Case Study on Contradictions and Pre-conditions for Outsourcing Agile Software Development ProjectsAuthor: Maksim Buslovič & Samson DeribeSupervisor: Jonas SöderlundDate: May 30th, 2012Background: In today’s turbulent business environment organizational success depends on its ability to embrace change and adapt quickly. The ability to satisfy customer is core to profitability; thus being agile is a prominent factor, because customer expectations are never static. READ MORE

  4. 18. Managing Production in a Foreign Environment: An exemplifying study of the managerial practices adopted in FDIs, and their encounter with the customs prevailing in the local institutional environment

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Ingrid af Sandeberg Andén; Amanda Gustavsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Production; Outsourcing; Managerial Practices; Local Institutional Environment; Adaptation;

    Abstract : At the same time as the prevailing outsourcing trend implies loss of control over operations, companies are increasingly held responsible for demeanours throughout their supply chain due to the rising focus on CSR. Vietnam is one of the fastest growing countries in the world and an attractive location for production. READ MORE

  5. 19. Coordination in Global Software Development : Challenges, associated threats, and mitigating practices

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation

    Author : Mod Nath Acharya; Nazam Aslam; [2012]
    Keywords : Global Software Development; Coordination; Collaboration; Systematic Literature Review; Distributed Software Development; Global Software Engineering; Mitigation Strategies; Practices; Empirical study; Offshore; Outsource; Distributed development; Dispersed development.;

    Abstract : Global Software Development (GSD) is an emerging trend in today's software world in which teams are geographically dispersed, either in close proximity or globally. GSD provides certain advantages to development companies like low development cost, access to cheap and skilled labour etc. READ MORE

  6. 20. Outsourcing Innovation: Factors influencing firms’ decision to outsource IT development to consulting organizations

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Ricardo Ortigoza Monroy; [2012]
    Keywords : IT Development Outsourcing Types; IT Consulting Organizations; Outsourcing Disadvantages; Drivers of Outsourcing; Benefits of Outsourcing; Outsourcing Innovation; Outsourcing Decision; Specialist Resource Consulting Services; Development Projects; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : THESIS PURPOSE: The present thesis aims to describe and generate new insights about the factors that foster or inhibit the decision to outsource IT development services in addition to the factors considered to decide the extent and form of an outsourcing initiative in Sweden. Furthermore, this study aims to determine the differences in outsourcing practices across various proposed company categories. READ MORE