Success In Outsourcing

We know many of the outsourced projects can never meet success and they fail. There are many reasons to why people fail to get desired results with outsourcing. I would like to put light today on the aspects of Outsourcing which play vital role in achieving success.

Home Work!
You are doing an in-the-house project development or Outsourcing it, you need to complete your home work. Your home work involves writing down all the requirements of the project, outcomes you expect, time lines you anticipate and goals you want to achieve. Having all this homework done, will help you negotiate and find the right supplier for the job. Working without a clear requirement may help in getting something you are not looking for. Communication and documentation required here is a must.

Evaluating Offshore Companies
Just like onshore companies, offshore companies have different experiences and strong points. You must discuss your requirements with the prospect companies and make sure they understand your requirements. Based on your requirements, request proposals from the offshore companies to what they will be supplying you in the agreement. In technical words you call it “Statement of Work” (SOW). Based on the SOW you receive from prospect companies, and evaluating their relevant experience you can decide upon a company.

Communication
Do not expect that you have selected a company and now they can build you a dream project. It’s a bit un-expectable but not impossible when we talk about quality companies. However a communication channel must be established with the offshore partner company to view upon progress and making decisions on various aspects of the project. Having home work with you will be helpful to get the desired results. Prefer working with companies which are offering a strong communication channel and can understand you.

Originality
It’s not possible to build Yahoo or Amazon in 6 months, or even any other established websites. Most of the startups when outsourcing think that they can get everything done for a few thousand dollars from an offshore company. Its not a reality. The truth is while you spend money to get a copy of any other popular website, the popular website will upgrade even before your release. So you can never compete by developing a copy of another website.

You need to be original. Come up with an idea, the idea should be based upon your own expertise. For example if you are a doctor, you can think about developing a medical portal. Since its your profession you will be better able to handle it and make decisions. That make sense!

Your original idea should be worked with an offshore development partner, who can supply you services for much lower price. You can get it done cheaper than your competitors in market and can spend money in marketing, resulting you getting the best results.

Long Term Relationship
Your should sign up with your offshore partner for a long term contract to not only develop the project, but also support it and upgrade as required. It’s not possible for any website today to be popular without consistent support and upgrades. If you look at the history, every website popular today has evolved itself to become that with the time.

If you go for a short term relationship and change your suppliers of technology frequently, you will actually end up spending more money and getting poor results. Finding a long term relationship is of utmost importance.

More and more benefits of Outsourcing to the right partner!
If you happen to find the right partner having the same interests as of your development, you are a lucky person. You will save your time, money and efforts all at the same time. While you will increase your productivity, performance, and reputation, this is a win-win situation.

Every Human Is Unique
We believe every human has got unique requirements and circumstances. Since your question and task is unique so is the answer. It means, it’s not necessary if something works out for another person will work out for you too, though there are increased chances.

We hope to write more in future about this topic of achieving success with outsourced services. We will appreciate your feedback/comments.