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When to Outsource and When to Offshore
This three-page white paper provides you with the critical advice you need in order to decide whether or not to outsource, and to decide whether or not an offshore solution will be a better alternative. The paper also contains key questions that must be answered in order for your company to succeed with your outsourcing or offshoring initiative.
The white paper contains:
- The four criteria for outsourcing; meet one of these criteria and it makes sense to consider outsourcing.
- The three critical outsourcing disadvantages that have to be considered. If one of these three things is important to your company, then you shouldn't be outsourcing.
- The five questions that have to be answered as part of an outsourcing risk mitigation plan. Ignore these questions at your own peril.
- The three reasons why you might want to offshore some of your work (Offshoring is outsourcing to a location outside your country).
- The four key disadvantages to offshoring that have to be considered in addition to the outsourcing disadvantages. If one of these four things is important to you, then you ought to outsource in your own country.
The paper is full of good advice and helpful insight. Read it before you make an outsourcing or offshoring decision. Or, if you've already made a decision, read it to make sure your plan covers all of the possible contingencies.
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Note: this white paper is substantially the same as Chapter 15 in my book Boiling the IT Frog.
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Outline of this White Paper
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Introduction
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When to Outsource - 4 Criteria
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When not to Outsource - 3 Critical Reasons Why Not
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Risk Mitigation Plan - the 5 Questions that Must be Answered
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Why Offshore? The 3 Advantages
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The 4 Key Disadvantages of Offshoring
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Conclusion
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“Harwell is one of those rare individuals who has both great vision and the ability to get things done. His leadership, forward thinking and deep understanding of technology resulted in several state-of-art business applications that have gone on to become mission critical systems at Ceridian.”
– Robert Bazzini, President of Bazzini Consulting and former VP and GM at Ceridian Corporation |
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About the Author
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| Harwell Thrasher has spent over 30 years working in and around IT organizations: as a developer of information systems, as a manager of software development groups, and as a technology vice-president. Harwell has worked for major companies, including Digital Equipment Corporation (now part of Hewlett-Packard) and Ceridian Corporation (originally called Control Data Corporation). He's done technology due diligence for over twenty corporate acquisitions in the United States, Canada, the U.K., and Switzerland. He's been a speaker at the Microsoft CIO Summit, and at meetings of numerous technical and non-technical societies. He's seen systems come and go, organizations succeed and fail, and leaders make a difference or get fired. He's seen the difference between mediocre IT and effective IT. Now you can benefit from his experience. |
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