Industry Related News and Organizations

• Information Systems Audit and Control Association
• Sourcing Interests Group
• Shared Services and Business Process Outsourcing Association
• IT Governance Institute
• Outsourcing Pipeline
• International Function Point Users Group

Recommended Books

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  THE GOAL
  by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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  Outsourcing Information Technology Systems and Services
  by Robert Klepper, Wendell O. Jones
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  Global Information Technology Outsourcing: In Search of Business Advantage
  by Leslie P. Willcocks, Mary Cecelia Lacity
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  Information Systems Outsourcing: Myths, Metaphors and Realities
  by Mary Cecelia Lacity, Rudy Hirschheim
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  Beyond The Information Systems Outsourcing Bandwagon: The Insourcing Response
  by Mary Cecelia Lacity, Rudy Hirschheim
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  The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action
  by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton
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  Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
  by Jim Collins
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  Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
  by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck