This is an anonymous guest post by a good friend of mine who recently outsourced a very large web project to a team of developers in India . Throughout the entire project I’ve been thoroughly fascinated by the concept. He was kind enough to take time out of his busy day to write a post about his experience. For the last year I’ve been working on developing a fairly large scale web project, not an Amazon, Twitter, Facebook or eBay caliber project but with good planning and a little luck it could conceivably attract any of those web all-stars to acquire our site down the road. I’ve known Adam for several years and we’ve become friends and a good source of advice and guidance for each other in entrepreneurial decisions and experiences. Please understand it is very difficult to sum up an 11 month project like this in a single blog post, but I will do my best to hit key points at the sacrifice of some key data. The key data I will not include is who I am, what my site is, who I used for outsourcing and who my business partner is. I am doing it this way for a few reasons but primarily to keep things simpler for this post and we have some potential partnerships we are working on and we will be making significant changes to our site if they go through so we don’t want to push or create any extra buzz at the moment. Additionally I will be painfully honest at times and do not want to insult or hurt anyone’s feelings. It seems obvious, even foolish, to mention this but the first thing you need is a viable project to outsource, in my case it was the programming for a fairly complicated website. Protect yourself, but remember NDA’s and CA’s are only as good as the people signing them, if someone is going to breach the contract are you pre... ... middle of paper ... ... a trait of those who don’t speak English as their first language. What was most frustrating, was until we realized this they simply skipped or ignored our detailed explanations, often if there was an important detail in the second sentence it would frequently be missed. Overall I enjoyed the experience and learned more then I could have imagined. At times I had regrets and if I could go back I would do things differently, but I would still outsource and probably go with the same company. We saved a small fortune, which was the difference between us creating this site or not. We’ve all heard tales of outsourcing, though it’s rare to encounter someone who’s actually done it. I hope my brief outline has helped to debunk some of the misconceptions and share some of my hard learned lessons when outsourcing so you can decide if it’s the right path to pursue down the road.
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Outsourcing simply means acquiring services from an external organization instead of using internal resources (Butler, 2000). By using outsourced resources, organizations can gain a competitive advantage by utilizing contingent staff to accomplish strategic goals without incurring the fixed overhead. By focusing on the leading edge and highly specialized skill sets, outsourcing providers can often offer higher quality services, or at a lower price than the client organization. Typical reasons for outsourcing go beyond simple contingent staffing. Outsourcing providers are able to maintain economies of scale with regard to specialization (...
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Recently outsourcing has been in the news, especially during political election years. It seems to be a phenomenon that is causing much concern among the population. But exactly how is outsourcing effecting both workers and businesses? And is it as big of a problem as politicians describe?
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How is outsourcing affecting American Citizens, its not only taking jobs away from us Americans but is also hurting our US economy. Outsourcing is when a company such as Apple sends jobs overseas to a country such as China and has factory workers there assemble the product for a much lower price. Yes this lowers the price of products but we have to take into account how many jobs this it taking from American citizens. Outsourcing jobs does lower the price of products but jobs should stay here in the US to build our economy and give American’s their jobs back.
Outsourcing has become a very popular issue, and it has reached an all-time climax. Firms are starting to do this a lot more than than in the previous decade. What is outsourcing? Outsourcing is defined as “The procuring of services or products, such as the parts used in manufacturing a motor vehicle, from an outside supplier or manufacturer in order to cut costs.” And it has become a big issue in our country. There are thousands of articles and books written on it, and you can attend numerous classes and speeches on the subject. The use of outsourcing is quite simple really… Either pay an American worker $15 an hour, or pay someone in India to do the same job for $2 an hour. There are lots of other advantages and disadvantages to outsourcing but I will address those later in the essay. So what does an average American really know about outsourcing? Most people would say sending our jobs to another country in order to save money isn’t justified. It would cost a lot of people jobs, which would send them into distress and possibly debt. But that’s not the whole story behind outsourcing. People hear about outsourcing and automatically decide that it is bad for our economy. What about the good things that outsourcing brings to our economy? We are sending jobs to India, their consumers will start making more money, and in return buy more of our goods and services. In this essay I will show you both points of the debate and you can decide for yourself whether or not outsourcing is bad for our country.
The next competitive advantage is quality of service. Outsourced environment is quite different than that of the environment in an enterprise. Advertisers are different economic entity with profits at risk. External service provider will make every effort to deliver good quality; good service and everything will apply and will be tested. For example, the usage of the ITIL methodology. Service providers will also provide high output, and perform better output, needs, and change control. Thr...
Globalization has had a major impact on the way business is conducted. Companies are increasingly turning to offshore software development outlets for design management. Anywhere from one-half to two-thirds of all Fortune 500 companies are already outsourcing to India and the amount of work done there for U.S. companies is expected to more than double this year according to Forrester Research. This paper will take a look at some of the arguments for and against outsourcing IT development to India. Most importantly this paper will take a look at ethical standpoints taken on outsourcing. But first, we'll take a look at the history of outsourcing to India.
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The assignment research objectives were (a) to gain insight into securing strategic partnerships in the information technology (IT) arena; (b) to understand the choices made to reduce information and security risks by exploring the different outsourcing techniques, and; (c) to understand how business process associated with outsourcing will stimulate awareness on how the process is interlinked with human behaviors. The topics covered include an evaluation of the specifications of information security consultants to become strategic partners assisting in the reduction of information or security risks, an examination of four factors that were omitted in the specifications that add value to the selection process, and an explanation of the value of the four factors.
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The practice of outsourcing jobs is not a new concept. People have been outsourcing jobs for decades. Some people even offshore outsource jobs. There are many opinions to offshore outsourcing based on how it influences the economy. Some people are in favor of outsourcing jobs and some people are against outsourcing jobs. People need to get educated about the great impacts that offshore outsourcing does to an economy. The global economy has started to thrive and offshore outsourcing has profited the consumers as companies want to cut costs and competition, which is why I support offshore outsourcing jobs to foreign countries.