ARTICLE | OUTSOURCING
Outsourcing with an In-House Advantage by Sunil Jagani | September 2012
Read This Before You Outsource If you’ve already attempted to outsource IT projects, you certainly are aware of the challenges. If not, be forewarned there are many obstacles to surmount including language and cultural barriers as well as logistics. The result can be unexpected delays, miscommunication, and costly errors. If you’ve faced these issues, your natural reaction may be to take complete control over the next project and develop it in-house. But there’s the problem. Your cost advantage evaporates. Or perhaps you may even call off the project, and say goodbye to the advantages of technology.
Leverage the best of both in-house and outsourced resources to maximize your return on investment. Developing technology can improve efficiency and give your business a competitive edge. But because (IT) developers are in demand they command hefty salaries, and, often turnover quickly. So hiring internal talent to develop technology internally can be costprohibitive and may not even assure you’ll reach your goals.
managing a small to mid-sized business, it can level the playing field, enabling your business to compete with much larger organizations that have the resources to fund cutting-edge technology.
It Takes a Global Village to Get the Job Done Right What if you could have all the benefits of outsourcing without the drawbacks? Imagine if for substantially less cost than in-house development, you could create technology that’s on-time, on-budget and on-target with your needs. You can. AllianceTek offers a hybrid approach to outsourcing that allows you to retain project management control in the United States while our credentialed and experienced team in India does the bulk of the work. The work is distributed to the right teams in the right locations. 80-90% of your project is completed at a remote location while the other 10-20%, the project management, is performed locally in your language and your specific culture.
Maybe you’ve already tried or thought about offshore outsourcing for your application development. After all, outsourcing can s a v e m o n e y, e x p e d i t e p r o j e c t d e v e l o p m e n t and free up time for you to focus on your business’ core operations. Also, if you’re
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