Outsourcing Disasters - 3 Major Conceptual Errors
By Admin | August 8, 2008
This is something that outsourcing naysayers would love to rave about, the dreaded Outsourcing Disasters. They are more adept at providing statistical details regarding the number of outsourcing ventures that hit the dirt coupled with heated, critical arguments. So, I will leave the harangues to them.
For a change, why not take a look at this from the perspective of a business? It has been widely known and understood that being in business means to take calculative risks. Much like our first history lesson, “Man is a social being”, I would say , “Business is a social venture”. It is impossible to launch, thrive and flourish a business venture without any association with other businesses. Outsourcing is no different from this, and the businesses that seek outsourcing services are also bound to this principle.
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Topics: Provocative Perspectives | 2 Comments »
Outsourcing - 10+ve Reasons
By Admin | August 7, 2008
Outsourcing is receiving human resources from outside the organization or outside the country that the business is based on. Outsourcing is considered one of the biggest business prospects, especially for individuals who are fortunate to have an outsourcing job. Also, it is much more profitable for the companies who use this type of approach. Normally manufacturing companies and Internet marketing companies prefer an outsourcing policy because it is cheap. But this policy also provides numerous job opportunities in countries that a low rate of employment.
What is the significance of outsourcing in the world of today?
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Preventing the Backlog Blues- 5 Major tips
By Admin | August 4, 2008
Small Business Owners often find themselves in a fix when the majority of their in-house staffs is concentrating on the current project(s) at hand. The company’s administrative, accounting, and other important tasks take a backseat as the project progress. Finally, when the staff has successfully completed the client’s project, they come face-to-face with the humongous backlog with the in-house tasks. This is a vicious cycle, and if not handled effectively, this could lead to some major catastrophe. As a business owner, your client’s project should be your prime priority. But, accumulation of in-house tasks in no-longer inevitable. A little forethought and some preparation should give you an added edge when handling your in-house tasks while working on your client’s project.
Now, it is the time to give some serious thought to delegating those little tasks that accumulate over time.
- Use spreadsheet and allocate new sheets for each department, such as Accounts, HR, Technical, PR, etc.
- Share this spreadsheet with the rest of the team, and request the departments to list their respective tasks that are held back while concentrating on the clients projects.
- This allows a consolidated list without having to wait for individual confirmation. Further, this also prevents creating multiple versions of the same document. Read the rest of this entry »
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Work Smart Not Hard: 5 Reasons Why Part-Time Virtual Assistance is for You
By Admin | July 30, 2008
Part-time jobs usually invoke the image of students working behind the pizza or fast food joint counter. Then, there are people who do two or more jobs, especially over the weekend to keep their family going. Students tend to love this hands one experience while on job, and enjoy the interaction they get with their customers. Moreover, the students always have the option of quitting the fast food job as the college resumes for the next academic year. The managers also do not seem to mind. A fresh supply of workers is always available.
However, this is not the case with people who are forced to work on two jobs for personal and professional reasons. For these people it is not a matter of choice, but that of sustenance. Factory and construction workers, and teachers often also work part-time during evenings and/or weekends. It is indeed a tough life. Sooner or later the stress shows in their performance at workplace. Read the rest of this entry »
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Virtual Assistance: The ‘reliability’ business
By Admin | July 29, 2008
Are you a virtual assistant? Go ahead! Flash that smile and preen all you want! Before your animated answer loses its steam and meanders into polite conversation on the weather, remember most people probably just have a vague idea about what a VA actually is. The better informed may venture a suggestion that its some kind of a home-based business. Not the entire truth! You groan and wish they’d look at the whole picture. “There’s so much happening out there!” you scream silently in exasperation.
As a well-grounded VA, you understand fully the implications of this phenomenal business trend that is slowly creeping up the corridors of workplaces all over the world. With your clients reaching out to you from different parts of the world, you might as well turn up your collar and pride yourself as a global entrepreneur. Sounds good! Read the rest of this entry »
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Outsourcing – The Elephant in the Room
By Admin | July 24, 2008
Outsourcing is often represented in the popular media as an approach for cost-cutting in large organizations at the expense of job loss in various sectors. As these facts stand, they represent only a small part of the whole picture. It is, of course, a sensitive subject–emotions rage over outsourcing on blogs and in other media outlets. With all due respect to to workers who have lost jobs, I humbly request you to stand back and try to look at the bigger picture.
To help make my point, I wish to cite the story of four blind men attempting to comprehend an elephant by touch only. One stated that an elephant is of cylindrical shape, the other insisted that it is long and rubbery, another maintained that it is just a huge bulging structure, while the last insisted it is only a few inches thick with hairs at the end. Read the rest of this entry »
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Momepreneur– 5 techniques to Follow your Career & Kill the Guilt
By Admin | July 22, 2008
The female workforce is constantly having to make choices between career and family. After investing heavily both financially and emotionally in their education and building their careers, motherhood can often complicate even the most well-laid plans. Whether plagued by pangs of guilt while sitting in the board room when her child is under the babysitter’s care, or fears that she is no longer able to concentrate on her job during those late night meetings, it is an unenviable position for a mother to be in. Not to mention, she may face ridicule from judgmental colleagues and supervisors who doubt her ability to juggle home life and her work load.
However high paying your job might be, it is certainly not worth your skill and time if you have to face this kind of pressure, day-in and day-out. You stand the risk of diminishing self-esteem coupled with an unhappy work and home environment. Sometimes a little soul searching can help you realize you are really worth much more than what you’ve gotten credit for.
In jest, it is sometimes said that women have a “built-in multi-tasking chip”. But jokes aside, this does seem to make sense when you take into consider all that is expected of modern women. I remember seeing a promotional video telecast on Mother’s Day. It showcases a 5 year-old trying to draw pictures of the members of her family. The father is portrayed seated at his desk, working. The brother is portrayed playing soccer; the sister is portrayed by the phone. But when it comes to drawing her mother, the little girl is so perplexed, that she ends up drawing her mother with 8 arms, which seemed to speak volumes to me.
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Selective Outsourcing: - A Strategic Perspective
By Admin | July 21, 2008
The outsourcing industry typically encounters two types of investors. Those who are willing to outsource few of their business operations, and know how to do it, and, those who nourish an inclination to outsource, but also harbor doubts because of stories about potential that portray outsourcing disasters. This (second) group of investors, falls into the category of people who would want to see for themselves if outsourcing will work for them, without relying on unreliable third party information strewn all over the internet. This means, they are willing to take the risk, but want to form their own opinion out of experience, and not draw conclusions from the contents of studies, websites and blogs. Read the rest of this entry »
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How Outsourcing is Helping Human Resources
By Admin | July 18, 2008
Outsourcing human resources is creating a lot of interest and buzz presently as it can so easily facilitate support for a businesses’s HR functions.There are various issues to weigh when considering farming out Human Resource tasks:· It includes aspects that provide knowledge whether to work with a solitary service provider or multiple best-in-class firms.
· It also facilitates procedure to administer the seclusion and defense implications, especially to restore the confidence of employees when they are searching for personal information while moving off the premises or probably offshore cases.
· It also helps a simple service provider manage expansion, particularly in overall achiev Read the rest of this entry »
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Outsourcing Through E-mail Expands Business
By Admin | July 17, 2008
Presently email in modern business is regarded as the prime source of record transmission and customer liaison management. Due to this, numerous organizations are outsourcing their non-voice call center requirements, as well as e-mail support services.
How does e-mail support service helps in eCRM (electronic customer relationship management) program of a company?
· E-mail is the main foundation for transmission of data and customer liaison supervision, so generally organizations are outsourcing their eCRM requirements together with e-mail support services. Read the rest of this entry »
Topics: Business, Outsourcing- Best Practices | 2 Comments »
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