This book provides executives with the necessary questions to approach outsourcing and insourcing decisions. Technological evolution brought about new ways to approach productive processes. Outsourcing or Insourcing is a question of convenience in the short and long-term. By understanding the nature of outsourcing and by having the necessary questions you will be able to build the natural complementation with third parties to increase productivity and quality. But insourcing is a natural alternative for certain business problems. The adequate mix of both outsourcing and insourcing alternatives will provide the adequate answer to your business problems. This book provides the description of the nature of the outsourcing and insourcing processes. This book is a support for executives that are familiar with the unicist approach to business strategy, and delivers the necessary questions and conceptual information to define the "blending" of outsourcing / insourcing decisions. It includes the unicist ontology of Outsourcing and Insourcing Processes and the questions needed to manage such processes. The implicit recommendation is to define to "outsource" when it is convenient and to "insource" when it is necessary. But when outsourcing has been decided it is necessary to make a deep reflection to define which type of outsourcing should be done. This book will help you consider the benefits, the risks and the costs implicit in each type of outsourcing.

Natural organizations evolve in the most effective way. The unicist technology to develop natural organizations is a meta-model, with its rules, to be applied based on the characteristics of a business and the environment. Natural Organization structures both the centrifugal and the centripetal forces of an organization: centrifugal forces to expand the market, and centripetal forces to expand its growth. It is a breakthrough in management towards simplicity and effectiveness. This book is a necessity for understanding the nature of businesses. It promotes the use of meta-models, as a GPS, to monitor organizational processes and the use of pilot testing integrating the "natural" organization with the "necessary" organization. This is not a book of recipes. This is a book to develop recipes. Unicist natural organization implies finding the organizational model that best fits the requirement of the business model. Organizational models are the operational description of the implicit or explicit business model. The nature of a business defines the essential organizational model to be applied. We named this model as a meta-model which replicates the natural organization of a specific business. The essential meta-model has three components: -The natural organization -The client centered management -The personalized organization This R&D e-book includes the unicist ontology of organizations that has been researched to influence their nature.

Designed for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in production-operations management, management information systems, international business, and strategic management, this text focuses on concepts, processes, and methodologies for firms planning to undertake or currently involved in outsourcing-insourcing decisions. "Outsourcing and Insourcing in an International Context" is the only available text that includes coverage of the international risk factors associated with this strategy. The book presents a balanced view of the positive and negative aspects of outsourcing, and provides essential coverage of the fundamental techniques involved in any outsourcing-insourcing decision. In addition, it discusses the ethical ramifications of outsourcing for companies and governments around the world. Each chapter includes learning objectives, discussion questions, and sample problems. An Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, and PowerPoint presentation are available to teachers who adopt the text.

Unicist Organization is a consultation book for "business architects" that need to make accurate diagnoses and design adaptive organizational processes. There are two possible languages in consultation books, one for "patients" and one for "doctors." This is a book for "doctors."It fosters the Ontology based and Object driven Organization in organizational design.This book is part of the Collection of the Unicist R&D books that were developed by Peter Belohlavek, synthesizing the ontological researches that began in 1976. It provides an ontology based and object driven approach to organizations, regarding them as a complex adaptive system. This book goes into the depth of human complex adaptive behavior. It covers, among other subjects: institutionalization, the unicist ontology of family businesses, business organization, the natural organization, structural diagnostics, natural models in business evolution, the client centered management model, the personalized organization, the unicist ontology of outsourcing & insourcing, business catalysts, business synergy, the unicist ontology of object driven organization and object driven management, business cybernetics, the ontology of leadership, quality assurance, continuous improvement, change management, big change management, research and innovation, principles of organizational equilibrium.

Designed for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in production-operations management, management information systems, international business, and strategic management, this text focuses on concepts, processes, and methodologies for firms planning to undertake or currently involved in outsourcing-insourcing decisions. "Outsourcing and Insourcing in an International Context" is the only available text that includes coverage of the international risk factors associated with this strategy. The book presents a balanced view of the positive and negative aspects of outsourcing, and provides essential coverage of the fundamental techniques involved in any outsourcing-insourcing decision. In addition, it discusses the ethical ramifications of outsourcing for companies and governments around the world. Each chapter includes learning objectives, discussion questions, and sample problems. An Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, and PowerPoint presentation are available to teachers who adopt the text.

"This book balances the positive outcomes of outsourcing, which have made it a popular management strategy with the negative to provide a more inclusive decision; it explores risk factors that have not yet been widely associated with this strategy. It focuses on the conceptual "what", "why", and "where" aspects of outsourcing as well as the methodological "how" aspects"--Provided by publisher.

This book offers a broad perspective on issues relating to the sourcing of systems and business processes in a national and global context, examining the client's and the vendor's involvement in sourcing relationships by putting the emphasis on the capabilities that each side should develop as a result of their interactions with each other.