Global enterprises that seek offshore development as a great business advantage find many benefits:
- Cost Savings:
Access to lower cost economies through Offshoring, called "labor arbitrage" generated by the wage gap between industrialized and developing nations
- Improved Quality:
Achieve a rise in quality through contracting out the service with a new Service Level Agreement.
- Knowledge:
Access to intellectual property and wider experience and knowledge
- Service Level Agreement Contract:
Services will be provided to a legally binding contract with financial penalties and legal redress. This is not the case with internal services
- Focus on core expertise:
Better time management of core areas can effectively improve performance. Leverage of more out of a service provider who is expert at your non-core activities enables better overall performance
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Operational Expertise:
Access to operational best practice that would be too difficult or time consuming to develop in-house.
- Staffing Issues:
Access to a larger talent pool and a sustainable source of skills.
- 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.
- Reduced Time to Market:
The acceleration of the development or production of a product through the additional capability brought by the supplier.
- 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