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Outsourcing Trends To Think About
By Dennis Sommer (www.dennissommer.com)
Thinking about outsourcing? What should be outsourced?
Who should you use? We have summarized what’s hot,
what’s not, and what characteristics you should
look for in an outsourcing or services vendor.
Most Common Reasons To Outsource
1. Reducing internal head count
2. Concentrating on the core business
Outsourcing
- What’s Hot
1. Application Development
2. Application Maintenance
3. Software Testing
4. Solution Architecture and Design
5. Legacy System Conversions
6. Application Integration
Outsourcing
- What’s Not
1. Infrastructure Management
2. Packaged Application Implementation
3. Data Integration
4. Enterprise Application Integration
5. Business Process Outsourcing
6. Data Center Outsourcing
Vendor
Characteristics to Look For
1. Maturity of services, processes, and
methods
2. Total cost
3. Staff qualifications and quality of service
4. Delivery speed and accuracy
5. Project management capabilities
6. Business knowledge and process expertise
7. Technology certifications
8. Capability to provide complete outsourcing services
9. Multi vendor capabilities
About The Author
- Dennis Sommer
Dennis Sommer
is the founder and CEO of Executive Business Advisers,
a management consulting firm specializing in business
growth, sales and profit improvement. www.executivebusinessadvisers.com
Dennis helps companies increase sales revenue, reduce
sales and marketing costs, improve marketing ROI, and
drive new business growth by improving and optimizing
their sales, marketing, company strategy and financial
health.
Dennis is a highly sought after business keynote and seminar
speaker www.dennissommer.com
and author of several highly popular sales, marketing,
leadership and professional development international
articles and books www.advisersecrets.com
.
Contact Dennis at 800-627-6512.
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