Benefits of outsourcing
Your competitive advantage lies with you - your core business. You need to work on what would make you successful – your core business. Consider yourself spending time on noncore practices and processes at the cost of your core business. International Business Group offers you services you need so that you concentrate on your business, and we take care of noncore areas. That may get you some or all of these:
- Cost savings. The lowering of the overall cost of the service to the business. This will involve reducing the scope, defining quality levels, re-pricing, re-negotiation, cost re-structuring. Access to lower cost economies through offshoring called "labor arbitrage" generated by the wage gap between industrialized and developing nations.
- Focus on Core Business. Resources (for example investment, people, infrastructure) are focused on developing the core business. For example often organizations outsource their IT support to specialized IT services companies.
- Cost restructuring. Operating leverage is a measure that compares fixed costs to variable costs. Outsourcing changes the balance of this ratio by offering a move from fixed to variable cost and also by making variable costs more predictable.
- Improve quality. Achieve a step change in quality through contracting out the service with a new service level agreement.
- Knowledge. Access to intellectual property and wider experience and knowledge.
- Contract. Services will be provided to a legally binding contract with financial penalties and legal redress. This is not the case with internal services.
- Operational expertise. Access to operational best practice that would be too difficult or time consuming to develop in-house.
- Access to talent. Access to a larger talent pool and a sustainable source of skills, in particular in science and engineering
- Capacity management. An improved method of capacity management of services and technology where the risk in providing the excess capacity is borne by the supplier.
- Catalyst for change. An organization can use an outsourcing agreement as a catalyst for major step change that can not be achieved alone. The outsourcer becomes a Change agent in the process.
- Enhance capacity for innovation. Companies increasingly use external knowledge service providers to supplement limited in-house capacity for product innovation.
- Reduce time to market. The acceleration of the development or production of a product through the additional capability brought by the supplier.
- Commodification. The trend of standardizing business processes, IT Services and application services enabling businesses to intelligently buy at the right price. Allows a wide range of businesses access to services previously only available to large corporations.
- Risk management. An approach to risk management for some types of risks is to partner with an outsourcer who is better able to provide the mitigation.
- Venture Capital. Some countries match government funds venture capital with private venture capital for startups that start businesses in their country.
- Tax Benefit. Countries offer tax incentives to move manufacturing operations to counter high corporate taxes within another country.