Link: http://eaaasblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/right-sourcing/
From EAaaS - Enterprise Architecture as a Service
Some time ago, together with John Gøtze and Pieter van der Ploeg, I started a new book project: The Sourcing Initiative.
Given the complexity of modern organizations and the dependencies between the organization and its customers, employees, partners and suppliers, sourcing activities can be quite an endeavour. Without fully understanding the strategic, tactical and operational consequences, sourcing can also be a risky business and decisions can have serious repercussions.
Our proposition is that the modern enterprise must fundamentally rethink its ‘sourcing equation’ in order to become or remain viable. When the enterprise solves its sourcing equation, it has achieved what we call Right Sourcing. Right sourcing has great potential to help organizations to optimize the use of resources and to eliminate or reduce wastes of capital, human labour and energy. It also has the potential to create adaptive organizations that stimulate, enable and improve collaboration for the mutual benefit of all of the parties involved.
To further explore the idea of right sourcing, we invited a variety of experts to write contributions for this book. We were interested in finding ways to improve the sourcing strategy and decision making. We also wanted to explore the parameters and circumstances that influence the success of right sourcing and make the dependencies with respect to people, organization, technology and economics visible and explicit and to make better informed decisions possible.
Editors Rien Dijkstra, John Gøtze and Pieter van der Ploeg are proud to present the forthcoming book, Right Sourcing: Enabling Collaboration, a collective effort from a number of experienced contributors from 7 countries.
Read more on the book’s website.
Reference:
Dijkstra, R., Gøtze, J., Ploeg, P.v.d. (eds.) (2013) Right Sourcing: Enabling Collaboration. AuthorHouse.
