Essays about: "risk of offshore outsourcing"

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  1. 1. What is the Real Cost of Purchasing? - A comparison between purchasing offshore and purchasing nearshore

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Industriell Produktion

    Author : Johannes Gustafsson; Maria Alström; [2017]
    Keywords : cost management; nearshore; offshore; purchasing management; risk management; production; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The product price given when producing offshore is not the entire truth and more companies decide to move their offshore production nearshore (Stentoft et. al, 2016). To measure the actual cost of producing many more parameters than visible costs needs to be taken account for. READ MORE

  3. 2. Key Drivers for the Successful Outsourcing of IT Services

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för management

    Author : Senadin Alisic; Eirini Karapistoli; Adis Katkic; [2012]
    Keywords : key drivers; outsourcing; Information technology; quality of service; profitability; productivity; risk awareness;

    Abstract : Background: Services are without doubt the driving force in today’s economies in many countries. The increased importance of the service sector in industrialized economies and its productivity rates are testified by the fact that the current list of Fortune 500 companies contains more service companies and fewer manufacturing companies than in previous decades. READ MORE

  4. 3. Japanese Offshore Outsourcing Trends : And a comparison with Swedish lean companies

    University essay from KTH/Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.)

    Author : Martin Asklund; [2011]
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    Abstract : Denna uppsats avser redogöra för Japanska företags offshore outsourcing trender. Först presenteras för läsaren en grundläggande genomgång av lean production följt av andra begrepp som är viktiga för att kunna förstå japansk outsourcing, såsom keiretsu, kaizen och risk reduction (riskminimering), men även hur den japanska marknaden upplever varor tillverkade i Japan jämfört med varor tillverkade i andra länder. READ MORE

  5. 4. Risk Identification in Offshore Out-sourcing of Services in Small and Medium sized Enterprises

    University essay from Företagsekonomi

    Author : Christian Schulz; Oleksandra Volianska; [2011]
    Keywords : risk management; risk identification; risk; offshoring; outsourcing; ser-vice; small and medium sized enterprises.;

    Abstract : Background: Development of technologies and worldwide reductions of trade barriers during the last decades increased competition and the need to offer high-quality prod-ucts and services for a reasonable price. Particularly, the service sector increased in size and variety of outputs. READ MORE

  6. 5. A comparative study of the domestic and offshore contexts of IT Outsourcing: a risk based perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för informatik

    Author : Tomasz Gidzgier; Konstantinos Mertzianis; [2009]
    Keywords : risk; IT outsourcing; domestic IT outsourcing; offshore IT outsourcing; Informatics; systems theory; Informatik; systemteori; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : IT Outsourcing (ITO) nowadays is a common initiative among companies across different business branches. Technological advancements have made IT a broad field of application which requires extensive operation by IT departments of any company. READ MORE