1. MBI Summer School 2010: Collaboration in Outsourcing Organizational Matters

2. Participants Introductions

3. General Organization Responsibilities Looking for sponsors Finding a managing companies ◦ More than one Missing something?

4. Individual Roles 1/2 Staying there: ◦ Schedule ◦ Accommodation ◦ Transportation (within India) ◦ Leisure Getting to India: ◦ Flight tickets ◦ Arranging group visa application

5. Individual Roles 2/2 General ◦ Accounting & financials ◦ Branding the BISS ◦ Insurance ◦ Sponsorship proposals ◦ Academic relations ◦ Companies relations

6. Schedule A day-to-day proposal ◦ When and what:  Cities  Companies  Universities (scientific conference)  Leisure activities Collaborate with the responsible people A prerequisite for other activities ◦ Travelling ◦ Accommodation ◦ …

7. Accommodation Hostels, hotels, etc… Price/quality ratio Reservations Addresses, names How to get there (public transport, taxis, etc…) A google map with the locations?!

8. Transportation The “big flight” – booking deadline 1 st February for discounts Within the country? The return ticket – who wants to stay some more

9. A Travel Agency Could arrange: ◦ Transportation ◦ Accommodation ◦ Sightseeing ◦ Visas ◦ Insurance Sample travel agencies: ◦ http://www.statravel.com/ http://www.statravel.com/ ◦ http://www.kilroytravels.com/ http://www.kilroytravels.com/

10. Insurance Travel insurance Flights cancellation Else?

11. Visas A group visa (application) ◦ Is there an agency that can do that?  Maybe the travel agency Deadline 1 st February (visa applications filed)

12. Sponsorship proposals Contacts sponsors Writes proposals Manages the sponsors list Presentation/description of the summer school

13. Companies relations Manages the companies list Overview of the topics/companies pairs

14. Academic relations Visiting universities Attending a conference Giving a workshop

15. Immediate TODO items Visas Tickets Travel agencies Day to day proposal schedule Sponsorship proposal

16. Assuming responsibilities! http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0A nnmW7Q08K0xdGN6UzZhWVFfT1ZW ZnN1V2dZclJXX0E&hl=en

17. Researching outsourcing

18. Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwwgXCOEYks

19. Research topics One topic per person Sample topics list Feel free to choose another topic ◦ Related to outsourcing ◦ Approved by the lecturers

20. Topics List 1/2 Knowledge network analyses Knowledge management Asynchronous collaboration Governance Maintaining quality Service level agreements Conflict resolution Collaboration tools

21. Topics List 2/2 Knowledge repositories Remote project management Computer mediated communication Specifications and contracts Risk management Outsourcing of IT services Product software development outsourcing Case studies ◦ Successful projects ◦ Failed projects

22. ICT infrastructure Google group (mandatory) biss_2010@googlegroups.com biss_2010@googlegroups.com ◦ Easy communication ◦ File sharing Google calendar/agenda ◦ For your convenience:  An up-to date schedule (also on the website)  The BISS meeting are called “Class meeting” BISS team e-mail: biss2010@gmail.combiss2010@gmail.com

23. Next Meeting 13 th January, 11:00 – 13:00 Location ◦ TBA

24. Questions?