Professional Documents
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Sven Carlsson
Informatics, Lund University
Björn Johansson
CAICT, Copenhagen Business School
The Case
• MeLo’s (Messaging and Logistics) Outsourcing
project
• 35 000 employees
• The outsourcing project started in 2002 (after
a major restructuring)
• Completed in 14 months
• Resulted in a 6 years contract
• And that MeLo decided to use an external
partner for hosting of ICT
Organization of the EffectIT project
Sterring Committee
EffectIT Project
Sterring Committee
Outsourcing Project
Assistant Project
Project leader
leader
EffectIT Project
EffectIT Project
Process- Support
Outsourcing Model for Application
Based Business
Project IT control Architectur
IT Calculation
April, 2002
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October, 2002
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December, 2002
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February, 2003
project
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March, 2003
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June, 2003
Implementation
A timeline for the outsourcing decision
Request for information and invitation of tender
1) evaluation of tenders,
2) develop a “short-list”,
1) negotiation preparation,
D2 Deciding on some restrictions on the “full openness” for instance, list of employees
supposed to change employment
D3 Deciding on an investigation and suggestion of a model for fee payment that were
considered as “normal” on the market
D4 Deciding on that the quality of the proposal was good enough
D7 Deciding that recruitment of personnel for the procuring organization should come
in action
D8 Deciding that distribution of proposal agreement should be done
Negotiation