Opinto-opas

The course is focused on sourcing ICT-services holding mostly a business perspective. Upon successful completion of the course, the student
• gets a good command of the principles of managing ICT-sourcing as part of Sourcing-function
and the relatedness to Company strategy
• learns ways to organize ICT-sourcing and frameworks of managing vendor and solution
selection
• learns practices to fulfill ICT-outsourcing and distribution of services
• learns the practices of Service integration and management (SIAM)

Successful accomplishment of the course necessitates basic knowledge of the ITIL framework and the principles of enterprise architecture.

• Introduction to sourcing and linkages to other disciplines in the field of IT
• Guidelines framing sourcing strategies, forms of partnering and the acquiring of resources
• Building service integration and management, and maintaining multivendor relationships
• Sourcing as an operation – case selection consultancy in large IT-investments
• Approaches and concepts in distributing IT work – outsourcing, crowdsourcing. ecosystems
• Case studies by student teams and professionals

Passed courses are assessed on a scale of 1 to 5 based on individual study project by free choice (related to job), individual assignments, exam and activity on lessons

Grade 1: The student partially understands development methods and principles but does not truly understand the role of IT in business development. Project work has been limited.

Grade 3: In addition to skills and competences mentioned for grade 1, a student has basic competence in planning and managing activities belonging to sourcing in a particular business area. In addition, the student understands the business value of developing sourcing capabilities, which is proven by assignments done on the course.

Grade 5: In addition to the skills and competences mentioned for grades 1 and 3, a student thoroughly understands the principles and success factors of sourcing and is able to adopt them in practice. The student demonstrates these competences by successfully doing and finishing assignments. The student is able to reflect the development challenges and opportunities of sourcing in practice.

• Lecturing (in a minor role)
• visitor lectures
• Individual learning assignments
• Workshops
• Case study presentations
• Study project in group

BOOKS

Beulen, E., Ribbers, P., Roos, J. 2011. Managing IT outsourcing .Routledge, 2nd ed. (On our library) -- A good overview on IT-outsourcing: Impact on business model, OS as phenomenon, Contracts, Offhsoring, Business Process OS, Partnership risk mgmt., Governance of OS.

The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring
Oshri, I., Kotlarsky, J., Willcocks, L.,P,. 2009. The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and OffshoringIlan

Iloranta, Pajunen, Muhonen. 2015, Hankintojen johtaminen: Ostamisesta toimittajamarkkinoiden hallintaan -- The book gives a good overview on managing the sourcing function. The learnings here are also apt in ICT-sourcing.

Kern, T., Willcocks, L. 2002. Netsourcing: Renting Business Applications and Services Over a Network --Find fresher an edition!

Rivard, S. Aubert, B. 2007. Information Technology Outsourcing – an e-book on our library

Ed. Martin, G., Reddington, M., Alexander, H. 2008. Technology, Outsourcing and Transforming HR. Multiple articles by Elsevier publishing. (on our library) -- Mostly the human resource viewpoint in outsourcing covered here.

ARTICLES in 2010-2020 available on the course platform (Moodle)
Journals by well-known authors such as Willcocks, Kotlarsky, Prickalnicki, Oshri, Ruohonen, Teece,

GOOD NETSOURCES
SIAM and multivendor ICT-sourcing management related articles. www.scopism.com

Contact teaching

• Visitor lecture • Cases * Students' study projects goes too as visitor lectures

Pasila Campus

No exam except the option for push-up the grade is possible by an exam based on the given theory (a book or a comparable reading).

English

Visitor lectures, webinars

07.09.2020 - 30.11.2020

See on next, schedule

15.06.2020 - 28.08.2020

The course is run in terms of 3-4 contact lessons and the course long study project. The latter one is recommended to be focused on your company and it is done in teams.
• Pre-assignment
• Opening lecture: Instructing the course and study project; Forming the teams and choosing the subject of study project in general; Introduction to sourcing and linkages to other disciplines in the field of IT
• Lesson 2: A virtual session by teams (each 20- 30 min) which is about ensuring the start of study projects
• Lesson 3: No contact lesson; Teacher’s councelling on request virtually
• Lesson 4: A common workshop and short presentations related to study projects – bringing forth needs and challenges and finding the path onwards to do the project; Visitor lecture (2h)
• Lesson 5: No contact lesson – teacher’s councelling on request
• Lesson 6: Virtual meeting with teacher – each team progress reportins in 20 -30 min
• Lesson 7: No contact lesson –
• Lesson 8: The grand review of study projects – sharing the lessons learnt; Optionally a visitor lecture
Besides the lessons, the following subjects are served in varied ways, like documents present on Moodle, webinars, individual assignments and so on.
• Guidelines framing the sourcing strategies, forms of partnering and acquiring resources
• Sourcing portfolio mgmt
• Building service integration and management and maintaining multivendor relationships
• Sourcing as an operation – case selection consultancy in large IT-investments
• Approaches and concepts in distributing IT work – outsourcing, crowdsourcing, ecosystems - documents
• Case studies by professionals –videos,

MAICTE
MAICTF
EXCH

So far, there are no alternative learning methods rather than the standard course option.

Pekka Kamaja

15 - 40

Reviewing the study reports and
RPL
Recognition of prior learning is exercised by request. The RPL process is started by a face-to-face-meeting with teacher where the coverage or crediting the prior learning is identified.

LITEM Degree Programme in Business Technologies

H-5