Themes in Managing Global Sourcing

This site covers material for dealing with the following challenges...

• How should one manage sourcing relationships? (and how does this vary according to the mode?)
• Relationship development - Important stages of sourcing relationships.
• Formulating sourcing contracts and service level agreements.
• Relationship governance structures and practices.
• Risk management.
• Facilitating effective communication and learning in context of cultural diversity and distributed work.
• The enabling role of ICT across organisational boundaries.
• Identifying and addressing emerging relationship problems.
• What are the emergent trends in sourcing relationships that are likely to be important in the future?