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05 Readings
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This issue of BFM is focused on methods and solutions to manage your company outsourcing, while retaining the capability to keep the evolution of your own business processes on course.
The suggested readings listed in this section usually will not include business books, as plenty of other sources already cover that area.
Instead, we will suggest books that while seemingly irrelevant to the task, could actually give you a different perspective on the subject at hand.
For this issue, we suggest the following:
- John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, revised edition, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-825054-1
- Originally published in 1971, this book inspired for decades most "social engineers", and it is still one of the best studies on what motivates an agreement between free and rational persons
- Emile Aarts & Stefano Marzano (eds.), The New Everyday, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, ISBN 90-6450-502-0
- Designing an outsourcing policy requires a clear understanding of the structure of the processes to be outsourced; this book analyzes the pervasiveness of technology in our society, and can be read on different planes- as a description of reality, as a methodology to identify the knowledge boundaries when externalizing activities, etc.
- Mark Urban, The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes, faber&faber, ISBN 0-571-20538-0
- When using outsourcing the selection and management of the relationship with suppliers is a keystone: this book relates the story of how George Scovell deciphered the "Great Paris Cipher"during the Spanish Campaigns- and meanwhile managed to reorganize logistics, build a network of "external suppliers" to ensure the delivery of information, letting the information obtained from his network filter into the internal decision making processes of Wellington's chain of command.
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2003-2005 edition