How to Make Outsourcing Work for You
December 6, 2007 by admin
Filed under Outsourcing
(10701) Michael Corbett says:
There are eight business skills managers need to make outsourcing work effectively as a source of ongoing competitive advantage:
1. Develop a global process outsourcing strategy.
2. Optimize your opportunities to outsource.
3. Create and lead highly successful project teams.
4. Engage the marketplace.
5. Develop a sound financial case for outsourcing
6. Learn how to price, contract and negotiate outsourcing
7. Manage the people and the changes generated
8. Manage the transition and the outside relationship well
Each of these skills need to be used in conjunction with the others for good outsourcing decisions to be made. That is, each discipline needs to be taken into account whenever a decision is made rather than looking at these skills as discrete steps which must be taken sequentially. Embracing at least some and ideally all of these management skills ill dramnatically accelerate the pace of change in most organizations.