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Offshore IT outsourcing promises to deliver many benefits, such as resource flexibility, reduced staffing costs, an ample supply of high-skilled experts, and accelerated project completion. This InformationWeek Executive Briefing explores critical success factors for outsourcing IT functions to overseas providers. Whether your IT department is embarking on a pilot project or seeking better ways to improve upon projects underway, you won't want to miss this real-world assessment of the benefits and challenges of offshore outsourcing.

Please join InformationWeek's editors for an exclusive Executive Briefing featuring an industry analyst and an end-user panel of industry experts who explore up-front project planning, assessment of internal IT processes, infrastructure needs, internal project accountability and effective client-vendor communications. Find out how to identify best projects for offshore outsourcing, ways to minimize risk and how to address business contingency planning in a post 9-11 environment. Topics to be covered during the InformationWeek Research study, The Pros and Cons of Offshore Outsourcing, include:

		Large scale application outsourcing strategies
		Effective SLAs and other business documents
		Developing realistic cost, time and ROI projections
		Deriving maximum value from your investment
		Communications in a cross-cultural environment
		Essential criteria for vendor selection
		Strategy and industry solutions
		Evaluating and mitigating risk
		Business contingency planning