Freesourcing - A Competitive Advantage in Information Era

Kumar, Anil Dhyani, Sarkar, Saukhin, Saxena, Amit, Tripathi, Alok and Moeller, Martina, "Freesourcing - A Competitive Advantage in Information Era" (April 24, 2002). MIT Ecommerce Research Forum Working Paper.

Abstract:

We quite often hear this "There's no money in bits and bytes anymore and software is moving away from the licensed model to the leased and subscriptions approach where the money will be in Web service contracts. This will suit the open source business model (Freesourcing Business Model) down to the ground," or "Companies are increasingly looking for better ways to manage their IT infrastructure and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)".

So lets try and understand what it really means to the corporates.

We will see how Freesourcing can be a competitive advantage? Utilizing 'scenario planning', we will try to analyze what Freesourcing is and how beneficial it can be finally in the cost saving efforts of a company; how, in today's information dominant scenarios it can lead to the tangible increase in stakeholders value and How companies can share this cost reduction with their end customers, giving them 'delight proposition'.

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