TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ravichandran, Narasimhan 
AU  - Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli 
TI  - Security Management at the National Institute of Management: To Outsource or Insource? Cases (A) and (B) 
KW  - Decision-making
KW  - Business Strategy
KW  - Corporate Strategy
N1  - Management Case
N2  - The case presents the challenges faced in the security management of Narmada Institute of Management (NIM). NIM  is  a  government  of  India  funded  higher  educational  institute  located  on  the  outskirts  of  a  tier-2  city.  A  number  of  administrative  and  operational  issues  were  plaguing  the  manpower  agency  contract  execution  at  NIM.  Swati  Bhargava,  the  Dean  of  Narmada  Institute  of  Management  (NIM),  directs  Col.  S  R  Rao,  Vishisht  Seva Medal (VSM) (Retd), the Administrative Officer (AO) to conduct a comprehensive review of the security contracts (manpower agency) of NIM based on their experience with four different agencies in the past four years. She suggests that the AO find an innovative and effective arrangement that will help the institute decide whether to insource or outsource security contracts
ER  -