The MGS Blog

Monday, February 14, 2011

Goals of the MGS blog

Our goals are to equip ourselves and anyone following with the tools to:
  • Describe typical organizational activities and products amenable to sourcing beyond the traditional boundaries of organizations. State the common modes of sourcing high-tech products and services.
  • Highlight, summarize and justify the advantages and disadvantages of different sourcing modes.
  • Relate historical trends in global sourcing to current topics and explain how local conditions have evolved. Illustrate the application of the various sourcing modes in example industries.
  • Illustrate the relationship between technology trends and the emergence of expanding arrays of options around sourcing of product components and services. Analyse global sourcing discourse and break them down to identify the interests involved.
  • Juxtapose the strategic decisions available to business between in-house and outsourced delivery. Propose remedial measures addressing organizational and technological issues relating to global sourcing. Suggest concepts and frameworks for interpreting and deciding sourcing cases.
  • Identify emerging trends in sourcing relationships that are likely to be important in the future and contrast them against the current situations. Extrapolate and justify the implications of changing sourcing arrangements on complex inter-organizational relationships.