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IT Outsourcing - Dealing with Outsourcing Risks

In this course, you will learn to identify and mitigate staff, vendor, contract, and communication-related risks to your outsourcing projects.

Beginner
55m
(9)

Created by Tommy van Schaik

Last Updated Aug 01, 2018

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IT Outsourcing - Dealing with Outsourcing Risks

In this course, you will learn to identify and mitigate staff, vendor, contract, and communication-related risks to your outsourcing projects.

Beginner
55m
(9)

Created by Tommy van Schaik

Last Updated Aug 01, 2018

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Running an outsourcing project presents the project manager with some unique risks throughout the entire process of preparing, starting, running, and closing the project. In this course, IT Outsourcing – Dealing with Outsourcing Risks, you will learn the risks associated with running an outsourcing project, how to identify these risks and how to mitigate them. First, you will discover how to identify and mitigate risks associated with the staff of an outsourcing project. Next, you will explore how to manage vendor and contract-related risks of an outsourcing project. Finally, you will learn how to deal with communication-related risks in an outsourcing project. After this course, you will be able to identify and deal with risks that are specific to an IT outsourcing project, greatly increasing the success rates of managing outsourced initiatives.

IT Outsourcing - Dealing with Outsourcing Risks
Beginner
55m
(9)
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Tommy van Schaik
66 courses 4.4 author rating 1654 ratings

Tommy van Schaik spent most of his academic and professional career as a linking pin between business and IT. His focus areas are: project management, IT governance, business processes, IT architecture, requirement engineering, and business rules.

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