BBA3551 Columbia Southern Manager Cutting Cost & Outsourcing Paper
Instructions
As a manager of an organization, you will often need to find ways to cutcosts. One way to cut costs is to outsource by hiring another organization toperform the service. Consider the scenario below.
As a manager for the public outreach department, you realize that the currentsystem for managing outreach issues is outdated. You would like to have a newoutreach system developed using the Cloudera platform to help manage big data.However, no one in the organization has the expertise. You will have tooutsource the project to save on costs and avoid management problems. Twocompanies have sent in a bidone from Vancouver, Canada, and one from Mumbai,India. The bid from India was slightly lower than the bid from Canada. Composea response that includes the elements listed below.
Define what is meant by outsourcing.
Explain how Peter Drucker’s statement (covered in the textbook inuCertify) about how one company’s back room is another company’s front roompertains to outsourcing. Use an example.
Summarize the management advantages, cost reduction, and risk reduction ofoutsourcing.
Summarize the outsourcing risks concerning control, long-term costs, andexit strategy.
Discuss which company you would outsource to and why. Does distancematter?
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.
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