An Insider’s Guide by Mario Lewis hardly looks the exhaustive and informative content it holds within those 233pages. But one read and you know how Lewis has gradually taken you from real basic issues such as the difference between outsourcing and offshoring to understanding and evaluating offshore infrastructure and actually executing offshore delivery. There are chapters on various practical issues, including how to set up an offshore operation, how to evaluate offshore vendors and how to execute offshore delivery, which Lewis has drawn upon from his long stint in India.

An Insider’s Guide focuses on the methods that the industry uses as it works out of India, but one can always draw upon the learning as the fundamental principles in offshoring are the same worldwide. “The decision to re-locate a function should be driven first by the practicality of performing and managing that function in another location, and then by an iteration of refinement with the objective of further optimizing costs,” states the book. It will be a good read for strategists, who would like to know the on-the-ground scenario.

Author Mario Lewis Pages 233 Publisher Sage Publications