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Outsourcing Business

Posted by gezhry17 Sunday, September 6, 2009 0 comments

(BPO) has become the foundation of doing business in staying competitive. However, there’s a right way and a wrong way to take preliminary steps toward accomplishment or full knowledge of BPO, and simply spinning off as many internal processes as possible there is still no guarantee of success.

1. Strategy
All businesses need to make sure they run as effectively and efficiently as they possibly can. Outsourcing key functions to reliable, professional, qualified providers has to represent one of the key strategies for doing this and one that more should seriously consider. One of the biggest factors in a failed outsourcing project is when a company goes straight to the process of vendor evaluation, without taking time to consider strategy.

You should know this:

  • sourcing strategy
  • evaluation and selection
  • contract development; and
  • sourcing management.


Towards that end, a company must understand what to keep in-house and what to outsource. While there are many processes that can be outsourced, policy creation must be kept in-house purely from a risk management point of view.


Business process outsourcing promises cost savings, use of shared resources and greater efficiencies. However, only by using an appropriate set of metrics will you ensure that your organization fully realizes the benefits of outsourcing.


2. Be Committed
Asks questions like, “What kind of relationship do I want?” Not all outsourcing relationships are the same, and even within the same company, there may be two completely different strategies with different relationships. Some may focus on enhancement, where the service provider supplies some type of superior process expertise; while other relationships are more transformative.

3. Know and Take the Risks
Organizing any business process has a set of risks. BPO entails a particular set of risks, and these must be identified and evaluated. There are two things you can do to make sure the risk remains acceptable. Make sure that the vendor is able to service the process and retain a certain amount of oversight and control over the process.

4. Be Open to Communicate
Any time a third party outsourcing representative comes near a corporate office, the rumor mill starts churning. The fact is, outsourcing has become a necessary corporate strategy, but in the end it doesn’t even always result in staff reductions. It will, however, almost universally result in changes to internal processes. Employees don’t like either. Communication is one of the most important in business process.

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