Rise and Fall of an Information Technology Outsourcing Program: a qualitative Analysis of a Troubled Corporate Initiative
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Rise and Fall of an Information Technology Outsourcing Program A
Early executive phase.
I progressed through a number of assignments and roles during my first four or five years at Icarus. The most significant events in terms of my moral career were beginning, and now completing, my Doctorate Degree and my promotion to my current role as the director of IT Vendor Management roughly two years ago. This was my first role as what I would describe as an executive. My job is as much about working across my peers and with the most senior executives of the corporation as it is about setting direction for my immediate team. 58 While there is certainly a higher degree of organizational politics inherent in the executive relationships I manage in this role, the biggest change for me has been the altered dynamics of interacting with my team. One of the more interesting pieces of advice I received while transitioning into my present role was understanding how my “whisper becomes a roar.” In this role, I have felt a shift to constantly being “on stage” in front of my team and others. What I may intend to be a casual comment in a moment of thinking out loud can become magnified and interpreted as high strategy or urgent directive as it ripples across my team. Additionally, I recognize where I am now providing similar leadership opportunities, or probationary crucibles, to my staff, much like those provided to me, in order to position them for future opportunities. Outside of my immediate team, I also mentor or sponsor a number of more junior managers to help them develop in their careers. I help them navigate political waters and learn the accepted ways of presenting and socializing materials with senior executives. Throughout the course of this research, I also recognized that I have been essentially teaching and reinforcing the Icarus habitus, or mental models, discussed in the next chapter. The outsourcing strategy explored in this research is a good example of the type of puzzle that senior executives asked my team and myself to solve. Outsourcing an entire function of the IT organization was a dramatic shift from Icarus’s traditional staff augmentation approach to vendor staffing. It also followed the larger IT outsourcing drift toward more end-to-end outsourcing, which is one of the elements that attracted me to this phenomenon as a dissertation topic. I was involved with the strategy during its early phases, and individuals from my team led the work to source and negotiate the vendor contract, which have been challenging puzzles in their own right. Even more engaging was the opportunity to be a participant observer with insider access to the how the strategy unfolded across internal teams and with the vendor. A still 59 deeper interest for me has been to give equal voice to both the employees and executives who participated in this research. I have aimed to listen to all sides and develop a balanced and grounded theory of why the outsourcing strategy unfolded as it did. I also recognize my own role in how the strategy unfolded. This includes my blended perspectives as: (1) a former computer programmer with an affinity for the craftsmanship aspects of that profession, (2) a relatively new executive still learning my role throughout this research, and (3) a doctoral candidate and researcher with academic responsibilities. Download 1.05 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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