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Offshoring Reaches the C-Suite - Research Report

  • Published: June 2009
  • Region: World
  • 36 Pages
  • The Conference Board

Companies are moving not only back-office functions like IT and administrative processes outside their national borders; they're also offshoring product development and other innovation job functions that affect corporate strategy and demand involvement of the C-suite. Offshoring Reaches the C-Suite distills findings and interpretations from the 2007/2008 Offshoring Research Network (ORN) survey.

Offshoring practices have evolved at a rapid pace, and 2008 was no different.

For many corporations, offshoring has become a major strategic concern of top management. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of companies that responded positively to the question: “Has your company adopted a corporate-wide strategy for guiding offshoring and outsourcing decisions at the business unit and function level?” In the 2007/2008 survey, 53 percent of responding companies claimed to have a corporate strategy in place, up from 22 percent in 2005. Companies that have implemented a corporate-wide strategy have often achieved significantly better performance in terms of savings, meeting target service levels, improving relations with providers, overcoming internal resistance, READ MORE >

- Executive Summary

- Structure and Demographics

- Offshoring Finally Has the Attention of the C-Suite

- The Globalization of Innovation Marches Forward: Ignore It at Your Peril

- Service Providers Are Adapting Their Offerings to Meet New Demands

- Small and Medium Businesses Are Increasingly Outsourcing Processes

- The Changing Constellation of Service Delivery Models

- Building Global Transformational Capabilities

- Table 2: Key Best Practice Capabilities for Supporting Corporate Offshoring Strategy

- About This Report

- About the Authors

- Acknowledgments

- About the Offshoring Research Network (ORN)

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