Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Why Offshore Outsource Projects Fail


Why offshore outsource projects fail and why mistakes may not become learning achievements for software development companies. 

Projects succeed on the mutual bond client-company shares. But due to system irregularities and process constraints, companies – irrespective of shapes and sizes – often end up concluding a deal on the half way; leaving clients searching for better and more systemic choice.

What does it mean?

If a company doesn’t change its outlook to development and ignores the crucialities of past project failure, it steadily fronts towards a deadlock or mid-way trap. Deadlock refers to the situation a company faces if it doesn’t have necessary expertise to carry out its ongoing operation and mid way trap refers to concluding a project at a crucial stage when a company has already invested resources it can’t afford. The only way a company can save itself is to learn from the mistake. We discuss why it usually occurs.  

Bargain: A service provider’s ability to offer quality wok is what set the rate. Low quality work comes at a surprisingly low cost hence such work has high probabilities of failures.

Lack of systematical communication: A software development project for example has to be initiated only when clear set of expected and projected results are defined. Communication plays a crucially decisive role in ensuring client – company knows what is going on, what should not go on and how things should meet an end. A bad communication if not cleared will only grow for bad.   

Inadequate planning: Planning something before and delivering something else at the end is a major project breaker. This however is likely for companies that do not have adequate knowledge on deliverable development. Sometimes clients’ misguided knowledge about the result is the cause of planning fall

Other factors:
Security and concern for safety
Lack of support
Infrastructure
Flow and adequacy
Inadequate management
Issues related to in-house clash

Other factors are also there; these vary from one to other. What is important to note is that it is wrong to held a company always responsible. Quite often a client’s undefined objectives and high yield expectation also lead to project failure

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Why Offshoring Makes A True Sense, Today!



If you read our last thought article Why captive centers are no longer the in thing, you might already know what we are about to analyse today. If you didn't read, here’s a brief about the last article:

We mentioned how captive centers are changing the world of business creativity through scalable ideas but at the same time why these are on the verge of slowdown. We analyzed key factors that are slowing down the growth of captives, such as lack of a stable balance between expectation and reality, high attrition, absence of methodically structured ideas for employee retention etc., This article further briefs the topic with the coverage of key reason why offshoring is always a beneficial business model, and why companies are opting for it!

Monday, April 8, 2013

Why Captive Centers Are No Longer The In Thing




Captive centers can creatively excel a company’s existing capabilities by finding out newer avenues of success, streamlining operational objectives while lowering process maintenance cost and improving the overall capitalization while ensuring total operational sovereignty. The end result is obviously overwhelming: Improved process, reduced errors, enhanced security and best of all – great work @ low budget!  But, despite having so many benefits why companies such as Citigroup, Unilever, Deutsche Bank, Dell and AOL have sold or shuttered their dedicated offshore captives? A closer look into the metrics unveils a range of inter aligned possibilities and rational judgments; some very insightful, some really interesting! Continue reading…