Existing system solutions redeployment in remote developing country: Lessons learnt from a multi-national IT consulting firm

Abstract

As one kind of world economic shift, redeploying existing IT solutions from developed countries to developing ones now becomes common practice for many multinational IT consulting and service firms. The redeployment process may encounter many new challenges due to complexity of unfamiliar contexts with various uncertainties. Most project management literatures and best practices do not take this unique category of project into considerations, hence lead to gaps between theory and practice. This paper presents case studies on the practice of remote redeployment practices. Through analyzing collected data, we reported seven aspects that are essential for the success of these projects. The case study brings some novel results, some of them even contradict to that in textbooks. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.