Home Notifications My Community BBA 3551-16P-5A19-S3, Information Systems Management Unit VII Unit VII Introduction Greetings!! You are almost done with this course!! Keep up the good work. In Unit VI, we covered information security and how to secure systems and data. This week we take an in-depth look at information systems management and outsourcing. While outsourcing may have a bad reputation when people think that jobs are being taken away from someone, it can offer many benefits to all organizations involved. Also, it does not necessarily take away jobs. In many instances, outsourcing simply restructures the organizations within an industry. When you think about outsourcing, remember that it does not always mean hiring workers outside the country. Outsourcing can occur between two organizations in the same city. Professor Bulloch Unit VII Study Guide Click the link above to open the unit study guide, which contains this unit's lesson and reading assignment(s). This information is necessary in order to complete this course. Unit VII Discussion Board Weight: 2% of course grade Grading Rubric Comment Due: Saturday, 05/11/2019 11:59 PM (CST) Response Due: Tuesday, 05/14/2019 11:59 PM (CST) Go to Unit VII Discussion Board » Unit VII Case Study Weight: 11% of course grade Grading Rubric Due: Tuesday, 05/14/2019 11:59 PM (CST) Instructions Define what is meant by outsourcing. Explain how Peter Drucker’s statement (covered in the textbook in uCertify) about how one company’s back room is another company’s front room pertains to outsourcing. Use an example. Summarize the management advantages, cost reduction, and risk reduction of outsourcing. Summarize the outsourcing risks concerning control, long-term costs, and exit strategy. Discuss which company you would outsource to and why. Does distance matter? As a manager of an organization, you will often need to find ways to cut costs. One way to cut costs is to outsource by hiring another organization to perform the service. Consider the scenario below. As a manager for the public outreach department, you realize that the current system for managing outreach issues is outdated. You would like to have a new outreach system developed using the Cloudera platform to help manage big data. However, no one in the organization has the expertise. You will have to outsource the project to save on costs and avoid management problems. Two companies have sent in a bid—one from Vancouver, Canada, and one from Mumbai, India. The bid from India was slightly lower than the bid from Canada. Compose a response that includes the elements listed below. Your case study must be at least two pages in length (not counting the title and reference pages), and you must use at least two references as a source for your essay. See the Suggested Reading section for some sample articles on outsourcing. Be sure to cite all sources used in.