Experience around the world shows that roughly two-thirds of outsourcing agreements fail to deliver the targeted benefits or create the hoped-for value for shareholders. The reason often given for this level of failure is that outsourcing is an ‘immature’ activity – a rationale that neatly absolves the senior management involved of any blame.
Maybe a little too neatly. The failure rate for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is every bit as high as for outsourcing, but nobody tries to claim that M&A is ‘immature’. Every month brings news of a CEO losing his or her job following a failed attempt at transformation through acquisition.
In short, the responsibility for both success and failure in M&A is laid at the door of the CEO and the board. The same should be true of outsourcing.
It is a great pleasure for me to write this foreword about a book that comes out
of one of the first research projects funded by ANR, the French National Research
Agency. ANR was established by the French government in 2005 to fund research
projects, based on competitive schemes giving researchers the best opportunities to
realize...
This book presents as its main subject new models in mathematical neuroscience. A wide range of neural networks models with discontinuities are discussed, including impulsive differential equations, differential equations with piecewise constant arguments, and models of mixed type. These models involve discontinuities, which are natural...
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