Reference no: EM132274639
Assignment
As a manager of an organization, you will often need to find ways to cut costs. One way to cut costs is to outsource by hiring another organization to perform the service. Consider the scenario below.
As a manager for the public outreach department, you realize that the current system for managing outreach issues is outdated.
You would like to have a new outreach system developed using the Cloudera platform to help manage big data. However, no one in the organization has the expertise.
ou will have to outsource the project to save on costs and avoid management problems. Two companies have sent in a bid-one from Vancouver, Canada, and one from Mumbai, India. The bid from India was slightly lower than the bid from Canada.
Compose a response that includes the elements listed below.
Define what is meant by outsourcing.
Explain how Peter Drucker's statement (covered in the textbook in uCertify) about how one company's back room is another company's front room pertains to outsourcing. Use an example.
Summarize the management advantages, cost reduction, and risk reduction of outsourcing.
Summarize the outsourcing risks concerning control, long-term costs, and exit strategy.
Discuss which company you would outsource to and why. Does distance matter?
Your case study must be at least two pages in length (not counting the title and reference pages), and you must use at least two references as a source for your essay.
See the Suggested Reading section for some sample articles on outsourcing. Be sure to cite all sources used in APA format, and format your essay in APA style.
|
Workplace in the near future or in the long term
: Do you think that you can apply any of the systems analysis and design concepts that we learned (FURPS+, use cases, class diagram, activity diagram
|
|
Smallest even integer of the sequence
: Need a program that can find the minimum number of the sequence, smallest even integer of the sequence, count of negative integers in a sequence
|
|
Assess the accuracy of certain business assumptions
: Given the importance of proper assumptions, your boss asked you to assess the accuracy of certain business assumptions and what could you do to test or confirm.
|
|
Tournament theory of motivation and performance
: Discuss your perspective on the "Tournament Theory" of motivation and performance.
|
|
Define what is meant by outsourcing
: As a manager for the public outreach department, you realize that the current system for managing outreach issues is outdated.
|
|
Method returns the string concatenated with itself
: Write method called multiConcat that takes a String and an integer as parameters. Return a String that consists of the string parameter concatenated
|
|
Identify a skill or knowledge that you learned in course
: Identify a skill or knowledge that you learned in this course, and explain how you can apply it to increase success in your career in a real-world scenario.
|
|
Development of competitive strategy as academic discipline
: What are Critical milestones in the development of competitive strategy as an academic discipline and, separately, as professional practice?
|
|
Explain areas in which improvements are needed
: Analyzes the basic legal, social, and economic environment in which the organizations operate. Identifies and explains areas in which improvements are needed.
|