My Mexico’s Nearshore Blog

During these tough economic times, many CIOs, CFOs, and business services executives are turning to IT outsourcing or shared IT services as a strategy to reduce their expenses.

However, developing a clear business case for outsourcing can be complicated. Without any simple industry-wide benchmarks, easy ROI calculations, and cookie-cutter models for successful client-provider relationships, this can become quite a challenge for any company.

Rather than struggle with this complicated business issue, many executives just give up, leaving large cost savings on the table. Yet, other executives decide to do-it alone, usually resulting in a tumultuous sourcing process that delivers less-than-stellar contract terms, a poor client-provider relationship and underwhelming savings.

Neither of these scenarios is ideal. That’s why many sourcing initiatives have a hard time to get off the ground.

Luckily, our clients benefits from our expertise as a sourcing advisor, together we determine if there is a real need and validate the savings. If they decided to go ahead, we help them avoid the pain associated with the sourcing process and provided them with the best IT resources possible at the lowest cost available.

Most importantly, we understand that every client is different and build a strategy as unique as their business.

Some of the benefits include:

Greater cost savings
A disciplined sourcing process/methodology
A decrease in the time to achieve savings
Better contract terms
Stronger client-provider relationships