Top 25 reasons why businesses outsource:
1. Reduce overheads, free up resources
2. Avoid capital expenditure
3. Improve efficiency
4. Offload non-core functions
5. Get access to specialised skills
6. Save on manpower and training costs
7. Reduce operating costs
8. Improve speed and service
9. Establish long-term, strategic relationships with world-class service providers to gain a competitive edge.
10. Enhance tactical and strategic advantages
11. Focus on strategic thinking, process reengineering and managing trading partner relationships
12. Spread your risks
13. Provide the best quality services, products and people
14. Be reliable and innovative
15. Provide value-added services
16. Increase customer service satisfaction
17. Avoid the cost of chasing technology
18. Leverage the provider's extensive investments in technology, methodologies and people
19. Benefit from the provider's expertise in solving problems for a variety of clients with similar requirements.
20. Focus scarce resources on time-critical projects such as application re-engineering
21. Obtain needed project management and implementation consulting expertise, along with access to best practices and
proven methodologies
22. Reduce the risk of technological obsolescence and increase efficiency by consolidating and centralising functions
23. Keep pace and minimise the impact of rapid changes in applications and standards
24. Extend the reach to more trading partners quickly and efficiently
25. Reduce the overall IT management burden while retaining control of strategic decision making.