A CI Supporting Model for Software Outsourcing

Author

Shi, Guoliang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Manage., Nanjing Univ., Nanjing

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

With the increasing development of software outsourcing (SO) in many countries, the competition between different software outsourcing vendees is very fierce. This paper provides a nontechnical analysis of ways that competitive intelligence (CI) system can be used by SO receivers to acquire information of the competitors, market and industry in order to gain perpetual competitive advantages. A conceptual model is designed with an insightful structure of both intangible and tangible measures. Detailed measures are enunciated in 3 parts: environmental analysis, competitor analysis and SO contractees analysis. Finally, the significance and creativity of this research are concluded.

Keywords

DP industry; competitive intelligence; contracts; outsourcing; software houses; competitive intelligence supporting model; competitor analysis; conceptual model; contractees analysis; environmental analysis; software enterprise; software outsourcing; Competitive intelligence; Computer industry; Contracts; Costs; Decision making; Information analysis; Information management; Manufacturing industries; Outsourcing; Software measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.1993

Filename

4680182