Outsourcing

Please find a few advantages to Outsourcing services from within your company.

Reducing Costs:

The most obvious incentive to outsourcing services is to reduce costs. Reducing costs increase profitability and client satisfaction.

Lower salaries and overheads enable outsource centres to provide skilled resources at reduced rates. Even in the current climate, the Dollar, Pound & Euro enable greater buying power. London, New York and Geneva are more expensive than cities like Cape Town, Deli and Shenzhen. Why pay more if you can pay less?

Workload Flexibility:

Managing people is challenging, expensive and stressful. Outsourcing services provide for more flexibility. Workload troughs and peaks can be ironed out by outsourcing less or more work, thus providing greater stability and resilience to internal resources.

Build a Core Team:

Making people redundant are de-motivating; legally risky and very expensive. Combining people and company resources improve the companies overall resource dynamics. There are many advantages to building a core team.

Build a core team. (I was recently introduced to dynamic company http://www.project-resourceblog.co.uk/).

Does your company outsource any services relevant to the Building industry? What are the pros & cons? I would be interested to learn about your experiences. What types of services do you outsource, and why?