Hybrid Outsourcing Services
When the offshore outsourcing concept first emerged, many business people found it very attractive. It was, after all, a model that enabled them to produce things in locations where costs were low and still sell them where prices were high, thus making huge profits.Understandably, there was much fanfare about the topic of outsourcing. Many companies decided to start outsourcing. Then reality started dawning. It started emerging that not everything could be successfully outsourced though many businesses still tried.
The low cost and high profit benefit of outsourcing also had something that ended up being sacrificed in order to achieve those benefits and that was efficiency. Some of the companies that outsourced crucial functions ended up burning their fingers so badly that they had to go out of business altogether.
Much water has gone under the bridge since then. Today, it is a well appreciated fact that not every function can be outsourced. Most companies have moved from a point of trying to outsource everything, to a point of outsourcing the things that can be outsourced, and keeping the things that can't be outsourced in-house. This is an effective way of balancing costs while maintaining the efficiency of your business.
This is what has bred hybrid outsourcing, which is one of the areas we help our clients in. In hybrid outsourcing, the client keeps the most sensitive or the most crucial functions in-house, whilst outsourcing those that would be termed as non-essentials (but which still have to be performed, if things are to work smoothly).
How It Works
Being mostly an IT services company, our specialty in this area is hybrid outsourcing for computing services (software development, web development, software documentation and so on). But we have huge contacts lists in the offshore locations where we often coordinate offshore outsourcing activities for our clients. Thus we can also help with other forms of hybrid outsourcing, beyond the area of computing technologies.
Our Specific Services
We help our clients who seek our hybrid outsourcing services in several specific ways. Firstly, we help them in figuring out the hybrid outsourcing model (in their specific situations). We help them figure out what to outsource, and what to keep in-house.
Then having helped them in figuring out what needs to be outsourced offshore, we help them connect with partners in those offshore locations: those being the partners through whom they can get the work done. Finally, we help them in coordinating activities, to ensure that the functions that are outsourced get done in the right way and in a timely manner.
The Costly and Painful Alternative
The alternative to working with a company like us is to manage the hybrid outsourcing process directly. But this often turns out be very distracting. Many companies that opt to take this route often face challenges in figuring out what to outsource and what to do locally. This is an area where one has to rely on prior experience and those lacking this experience have to learn the hard way.
The companies that opt to manage the hybrid outsourcing process directly also face challenges in identifying the people to partner with in the offshore locations, in order to get the work that is outsourced done well. This is, again, another area where experience can be helpful and where the firms lacking experience have to learn the hard/painful way.
Finally, there is the small matter of coordinating operations, once the decisions have been made on what to outsource, and once outsourcing partners have been identified. Since this is hybrid outsourcing, as opposed to pure outsourcing, it becomes a very delicate task of ensuring that the work of the offshore team is in tandem with the work of the local team. Suffice it so say that it can end up being very complicated.
Our Assets
Our greatest assets in the area of hybrid outsourcing are our experience and our contacts. Leveraging on our experience and our contacts, we can help our clients implement hybrid outsourcing in the right way, in order to enhance operational and cost efficiency in their businesses. With over 14+ years of experience you can be sure that we have the right perspective as well as experience in order to help your business achieve maximum efficiency.