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Sourcing Strategies

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The Road to a Modern IT Factory

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Sourcing strategies determine the success of outsourcing. The essential element of a single-sourcing strategy is the right combination of onsite and near- or offshore activities. After years of successful near- and offshoring, companies are beginning to consider how the efficiency and cooperation inherent to a distributed delivery network can be developed further into a true global alliance.

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  • Detecon. (2010, 2011). Schematisches Szenario aus verschiedenen Detecon Projekten zum Thema Sourcingstrategie, Projektleiter C. Glohr.

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Wahl, B., Glohr, C. (2014). Sourcing Strategies. In: Abolhassan, F. (eds) The Road to a Modern IT Factory. Management for Professionals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40219-7_18

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