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Quality Standardization Patterns in ICT Offshore

Quality Standardization Patterns in ICT Offshore

Esther Ruiz Ben
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781605663203|ISBN10: 1605663204|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616926120|EISBN13: 9781605663210
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-320-3.ch015
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Ben, Esther Ruiz. "Quality Standardization Patterns in ICT Offshore." Information Communication Technology Standardization for E-Business Sectors: Integrating Supply and Demand Factors, edited by Kai Jakobs, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 219-235. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-320-3.ch015

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Ben, E. R. (2009). Quality Standardization Patterns in ICT Offshore. In K. Jakobs (Ed.), Information Communication Technology Standardization for E-Business Sectors: Integrating Supply and Demand Factors (pp. 219-235). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-320-3.ch015

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Ben, Esther Ruiz. "Quality Standardization Patterns in ICT Offshore." In Information Communication Technology Standardization for E-Business Sectors: Integrating Supply and Demand Factors, edited by Kai Jakobs, 219-235. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-320-3.ch015

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Abstract

In recent years, the ICT branch has experienced new internationalization impulses through the improvement of offshore practices. Particularly the development of modularization and standardization of some production processes have crucially contributed to enabling offshoring in globalized areas of ICT. Competencies as well as innovation sources have increasingly fragmented; resting upon cooperation and trust principles. Quality standards play a crucial role to satisfy and optimize these coordination and regulation needs so to warrant quality outcomes. In this chapter, I will give an overview of the development of quality standards related to offshore projects, focusing particularly on recent practices in Europe. To illustrate the importance of quality standards and quality management for ICT off- and nearshore projects, and moreover for the internationalization of the ICT branch, I present some preliminary results of my work in progress. From the perspective of project managers in large ICT firms, quality standards play a very important role as the internal controlling instrument of working and communication processes; as well as an external mechanism beyond the ICT network in order to get market advantages.

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