Leaders and senior managers are constantly on the lookout for finding new ways to improve and grow their business and outsourcing is a concept that has helped them in reducing their operational costs while increasing their bottom line. Here are three famous books that will further help senior managers to develop a more thorough understanding about outsourcing.
Vested Outsourcing by Kate Vitasek
This book is a good read for anyone who has been involved or will be involved in planning for outsourcing the business activities. This book will transform the way you outsource by first identifying hidden flaws that are present in the outsourced businesses and then show readers the way of reinventing relationship with outsourced business to improve, innovate and increase the bottom line of the firm.
Smartsourcing: Driving Innovation and Growth Through Outsourcing by Thomas M. Koulopoulos
Outsourcing is popular in today’s business environment but it will soon be superseded by something what Mr. Koulopoulos calls ‘Smartsourcing’. Outsourcing is only focused on delegating work to the other person that charges less money for the completion of the task at hand, but smartsourcing will be focused on delegating the work to other to be done in an innovative way while cutting the cost at the same time. Smartsourcing is the first book on such a topic and is definitely a must read for senior strategic managers.
Outsourcing- All You Need To Know by Sara Cullen, Mary Lacity and Leslie Willcocks
This book is based on thirty years of research covering over 2100 organizations around the world. The author Dr. Cullen is the managing director of The Cullen Group and has extensive experience in the consulting business. This book is aimed for the leadership of the organization and shows them how to manage the outsourcing arrangement across the lifecycle of the arrangement. This book is the holy bible for practitioners who want to lead the organization by effective outsourcing.