DocumentCode
3154779
Title
IT outsourcing risk management at British Petroleum
Author
Aubert, Benoit A. ; Patry, Michel ; Rivard, Suzanne ; Smith, Heather
Author_Institution
HEC Montreal, Que., Canada
fYear
2001
fDate
6-6 Jan. 2001
Abstract
The paper reports the results of a study of three successive IT outsourcing contracts at British Petroleum (BP). We offer an operational definition of IT outsourcing risk and use it to assess the risk exposure associated with each contract. We then examine how the management at BP dealt with outsourcing risk. Our results show that careful and deliberate risk management can substantially attenuate the level of risk exposure, and that IT outsourcing risks can be managed.
Keywords
British Petroleum; DP management; contracts; outsourcing; petroleum industry; risk management; BP; British Petroleum; IT outsourcing contracts; IT outsourcing risk management; risk exposure assessment; Contracts; Fuel economy; History; Information management; Information technology; Outsourcing; Petroleum; Probability distribution; Risk management; Technology management;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
System Sciences, 2001. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location
Maui, HI, USA
Print_ISBN
0-7695-0981-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HICSS.2001.927191
Filename
927191
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