A Study of Outsourcing Strategy for Android Software:The Case of C Company

• Main Authors: Ming-te Liu, 劉明德
• Other Authors: Chien-hsing Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54800022349876618242

碩士 === 國立高雄大學 === 國際高階經營管理碩士在職專班(IEMBA) === 100 === The Android has been attracting increasing attention to the software firms because of its ease of use and open access system. Consequently, the demand of Android has highly increased in the app market. Importantly, the Android development is a time consuming task that needs idea, design, development, modification, and maintenance. Upon the needs of not increasing the number of programmers to maintain flexibility, Android outsourcing is one of the feasible solutions. However, outsourcing failure is not an uncommon case to a software firm. Therefore, the research thesis conducts a case study for the C company to derive the needs that outsourcing strategy deals with. Major findings and suggestions derived from the study are as follows: (1) at the planning stage, firms have to define the specification, assess the possibility of self-developing, ensure the items that require outsources, select the suitable outsourcing vender(s), and contract the outsourcing project; (2) at the developing stage, firms have to raise regular meeting discussing the progress and issues that need to be solved, use problem tracing tool to trace problems, and periodically ask outsourced objects to ensure its progress; (3) at the final stage, firms have to conduct the object test to ensure the quality, reemphasize the training programs stated in contract, and ask for the associated toolkits.