Workshops Clarify Outsource Dilemma

Agilis Solutions provides guided workshops to help clients identify and prioritize projects appropriate for outsourcing. The outsourcing workshop is a six-hour session where companies gain clarity on outsourcing opportunities, assess outsourcing readiness and get educated on outsourcing processes.

 

Core Leadership Involved to Set Strategy

Agilis Solutions works with a company's core project leadership to level expectations regarding outsourcing potential and balance the various high value activities against activities that can be outsourced. It is common for CXOs, vice presidents of engineering and product managers to participate alongside project/product managers to arrive at strategic outsourcing decisions.

Define Benefits to Match Business Goals

Once a company addresses barriers (see "Conquer Internal Barriers to Outsourcing"), the workshop can focus on defining outsourcing benefits specific to business goals. It's vital to understand the state of current outsourcing candidate projects. Assessments of project organization, application/software product inventory, processes, service level agreements (SLAs), standards, budgets and costs, and required and available skill sets are brought into the introductory discussion.

Four Stages: Introduction, Brainstorming, Evaluation, Implementation

There are four stages to the outsourcing workshop. Once the introduction to outsourcing has been conducted, Agilis Solutions leads the group in an identification brainstorming session to capture processes, products, applications and functions that represent outsourcing candidates. The evaluation stage scores outsourcing project candidates on six factors to summarize opportunities and reach agreement on what to outsource. The six scoring factors include execution, cost, modularity, simplicity, reality of implementation and distraction from core business.

Finally, the implementation stage further evaluates project candidates for their implementation risks and next steps required to execute. Risk review helps tie final decisions to outsourcing and closes out the previous barrier discussion by addressing project oversight, security, licensing, change management, communication and integration.

Be Ready for Rapid Results

In a relatively short but concentrated effort, the Agilis Solutions outsourcing workshop assists a company's core technical leadership in aligning outsourcing project candidates to corporate objectives and strategies. By knowing what to outsource and completing the preparations, workshop participants are ready for rapid outsourcing implementation at minimal risk levels and maximum value.

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