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.

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.

Topics:

• Course Overview
• Recognizing and Minimizing Staff Related Risks
• Dealing with Vendor and Contract Related Risks
• Managing Communication Related Risks