Outsourcing

Outsourcing has rapidly become a common practice of many organizations when IT is becoming more and more a commodity at the same time it is difficult to keep pace with developments in the innovative IT areas.

Outsourcing may bring cost reduction to organizations but it doesn’t necessarily create the right contribution to a company's innovation strategy. Hence outsourcing may be sensible, but in practice it also turns out to be an extremely complex and difficult undertaking if full value is to be obtained. The prospective outsourcing is faced not only with many questions, but also with very difficult ones such as:

• Which party is the best vendor for us?
• How can we co-ordinate our processes optimally with those of the supplier?
• How do we deal with the various parties and their differing interests?
• What does a good outsourcing contract look like?
• How do we guarantee the quality?

Where good management from varies parties is essential to outsourcing unfortunately not all parties are involve in outsourcing everyday hence lack experience and know-how. That's exactly what makes outsourcing difficult.

Quint sourcing is a group of independent specialist with only one mission - to support you in making outsourcing a success. We use the Phase Model©, our proprietary know-how, as the reference model when supervising outsourcing projects. The model has been applied in practice many times and has proven its value in supporting the management of an outsourcing process. We offer all key areas of outsourcing consultancy:

• Define sourcing strategy
• Draw up good request for information and request for proposal
• Draw up contacts and support in negotiations
• Conduct different areas of outsourcing
• Contact management
• Personnel
• Information Service Procurement Library (ISPL)
• Training sourcing managers