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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.
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.
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.
There are four stages to the outsource 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.
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.
For further information on the workshops and how
you might learn more, contact us
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