Making smartsourcing decisions
Written by Ilma Pasic, Business Development Manager at Softray Solutions
Ilma Pasic, Softray’s Business Development Manager, shares her opinion on smartsourcing, the global IT economy’s buzzword. Ilma explains how well-managed smartsourcing process can translate into overall businesses improvement. In the last two decades, the concept of distributed teams has become increasingly popular, and more and more businesses are embracing a global workforce term as the new standard. The ongoing pandemic has forced employees to work form their homes and this has additionally fortified the new normal tendency of remote workforce.
Smartsourcing as a business lifestyle
Smartsourcing, slowly but surely, is becoming the global economy’s lifestyle. It is a strategic and well-planned move that today’s companies make in order to achieve higher effectiveness. Let’s put it simply — smartsourcing allows companies to enjoy real-value-for money after hiring a dedicated team that will make synergy with their in-house team and solve business issues while working on mutual and long-term improvement. For example, you get a huge project and find yourself in a situation lacking both cutting-edge technology skills, but also capacity. That moment might be crucial for your smartsourcing decision. Meeting the right software company partner brings you the external perspective, introduces best practice methodologies and fresh intellectual property. It is often being misperceived that companies opt for IT smartsourcing services exclusively due to significant cost reduction, but apart from that, smartsourcing will definitely improve your company’s effectiveness, deep expertise and let you improve your company’s core competencies. At this point we have already listed several smartsourcing benefits. However, there is one that pretty much makes the decision on smartsourcing as simple as possible — hiring a top-level and strategic software partner company provides you with specialist expertise without you having to hire or train for it.
Education as the smartsourcing backbone
Educational levels nowadays play a crucial role worldwide, since the opportunities are growing in the business market for ones that pursue higher educational levels. The availability of high-quality workers has a great demand since there is a constant increase in searching for qualified workers for doing jobs that we would never have even considered to be smartsourced before. Moving the work to wherever it makes sense, anywhere in the world, is also a great opportunity. It is often being published that American companies choose to have software partner companies in Europe. What is the secret of the ultimately discovered European’s working force allure? It is a potent mix of attributes that no other rival region can offer: a multilingual and highly educated talent pool and an abundant workforce market. Eastern Europe has discovered huge potential in smartsourcing IT company business sector which allows the SEE countries to keep business contacts with the rest of the world, presence in the global IT market that consequently and significantly effects the improvement of living conditions. The European companies, using local resources and talents, strive to supply their customers with innovative, sophisticated and smart solutions. It is important to emphasize that such companies are ready to take the whole burden of the client’s problems on their own shoulders. They’ve become creators rather than executors.
Do you understand your core competencies?
There are a couple of key questions to be answered, but the crucial one is weather you understand your core competencies? Are you able to identify where you should focus your energy and resources? This is a pair of important structural questions that need to have a concise answer. Having a software partner company is definitely a smart move if your aspirations are not exclusively cost- driven. Software partner companies offer real value that can help you stay ahead of competition, they are cost efficient and constantly improve your overall performance. Check out the key advantages that you will benefit from if you choose the right partner:
Innovative high-quality software solutions
Software partner companies will increase innovation across the full spectrum of your business.
It is understandable that each business seeks to increase growth and earnings, but these are not the only indicators of the company’s performance. Innovation has the power to affect both, the growth and the cost, thus it is an imperative to invest in innovative solutions that will meet your customers’ needs, and result in long-term and stable growth.
Through smartsourcing, your business can gain partners who can help your company to focus on core business, balance risk and opportunity, lower costs, and most importantly, increase innovation across all of its processes.
To sum it up, smartsourcing is the way to enjoy the real value-for-money after hiring a software partner company and this short review was to provide you information that might facilitate this fundamental decision for you. The next article will be covering the exact benefits that Softray, high-quality software provider, will bring to your business performance.
