What to keep In-house and what to Offshore

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What to keep In-house and What to Offshore?
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• Do you have a compelling product idea? Want to
  build a new product? Are you new to outsourcing
  industry? And would like to understand what you
  should keep in-house and what you should
  offshore?
• There is a very important need to be educated
  with truthful knowledge about offshoring rather
  than just eaves dropping rumors about how bad
  could offshoring be for your business.
• Here is a quick sneak peek about what steps you
  should perform before thinking of you need or you
  dont need to offshore.
• Lets put a table under the headings Skills,
  Capacity and Budget which might help you
  understand and decide

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• Assessment for what to keep in-house and what to
  offshore
• Steps while planning what you should keep
  in-house and what offshore
• Thoroughly evaluate your business, finding the
  right and precise vision. Segregate what
  functions are performed that are strategic or
  have direct security related effect. May include
  research and development, unique core
  competencies.
• Based on the main goal of the company search out
  those tasks that can be carried out outside
  company also at a rather affordably cheaper rate.
  May include backend development activities,
  usability engineering, maintenance and testing
  and QA.
• After having searched those categorized tasks,
  determines to what extent i.e. part or whole
  would you like to bake out offshoring. Also
  details of what amount of control do you need on
  those tasks.

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• Based on this chalk out a line-up of all the
  potential vendors. If you feel you cannot find
  them yourself, it is always good to look up to
  your business advisors or close associates,
  fellow companions or even your clientele.
• The factors that you should consider while cherry
  picking your vendors is the model they
  comfortable to use, how long and to what
  magnitude do the vendor have experience in that
  field, goodwill in the market and also
  availability of enough bandwidth of resources
  that match up the International standards.
• Last but not the least what cost would the vendor
  quote and what you think is suitable for the task
  almost equate to satisfactory range. After all if
  the task is going to cost a blast even by
  outsourcing then it would be like I am ready to
  shut my business down.

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• So if you follow these steps the things fall
  easily into two categories Responsibilities and
  Tasks. I have used five main important pointers
  to check out the criticality of the business that
  the project creates on the company.
• Have a look,
• Do you know about the background, methodology and
  combination of technologies needed to
  successfully execute the project?
• Is there a specific time to market that you have
  to adhere to? For example do you have to launch
  your product before Christmas or start of school
  year.
• Is this project going to lead to one of the crown
  jewels of your company, how core is it going to
  be to for your companys business goals?

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• Based on these pointers I have bifurcated
  prominent areas that might falls under
  Responsibility which you might want to keep
  in-house
• Research and Development
• Modules which involves IP and security issues
  (patented formulae, algorithm etc.)
• And the areas that might falls under Tasks
  which you might want to offshore software
  development with no restrictions would be
• Back-End modules
• UI/Visual Designing
• Usability Engineering
• Performance Engineering
• Product/Application Porting
• Testing and QA
• Maintenance

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• In-house or offshore finally rests on the amount
  of significance it can bring by either making it
  at home or send it overseas.
• Today one can even outsource end to end or part
  of the project with seamless integration offshore
  and still be very satisfied and at profitable
  end.
• The fact lies in what kind of business relation
  you are able to evolve with the outsourcing
  company and the kind of commitment it is making
  to your project.
• In the end your project, be it small or big is
  just like your child, you know it well what is
  best for it and what isnt, right?
• Source Cuelogic Blog

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