What is the Future of Outsourcing? How Do You Future Proof Your Projects? Part 2

PART 2

In Part 1, we discussed the challenges facing companies who are trying to decide what to outsource, and how to choose the best option to fit their needs. If you haven’t read it, click here to read.

The niche we’re about to outline solves pretty much all of these challenges noted in Part 1, when the vendor and customer both have the right attitude, and go about their business in the right way. In fact, it’s the niche Dedicated Developers is proud to be a part of, and we do our best to be an example of how to do it right.

There is no easy way to describe how this niche operates, because it is, to a large extent, whatever you want it to be.

The best way to explain it is to use what we do at Dedicated Developers as an example. This isn’t meant as a sales pitch, yet we’re passionate about what we do so please forgive us if it comes across as such:

Dedicated Developers offer our clients a large team of skilled professionals from India, who deliver the highest quality standards, at a fraction of the cost of on-shore development.

Our team includes: Graphic & Website Designers, Web Developers, PHP Coders, Android & iPhone Mobile Application Developers, and much more.

Founded in 2007 by Brothers Vishal & Vikas Bhatia, to take advantage of their deep connections in the Indian IT community, Dedicated Developers is committed to providing your company the very best off-shore development services, at affordable prices.

What sets us apart?

Essentially, the idea is to minimize the risks of outsourcing, and maximize the benefits by providing a managed service at a predictable cost.

This isn’t easy. It requires a lot of expertise on the vendor’s part, and is far more expensive to run than most outsourcing operations. Most businesses that try to provide such a service fail, because it’s very hard to do it right and there aren’t many competitors to copy, yet.

However, this IS the future of outsourcing. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t bother pursuing it.

You, as a customer, can finally gain the reduced cost and scalability you’re after, without the risk of hiring a dud team, having your stuff stolen, or being hit with unexpected bills.

You’re able to gain access to A-player developers, who will actually stick with your project, because they have a good, stable job, and a reputable employer, who benefits when they stay with them.

What’s more, this arrangement is actually more comparable to having an in-house employee than the general outsourcing experience. Your developer(s) will quickly become familiar with your business, your project, and the way you work. They will do their work on time, every time, while contributing ideas just like an in-house employee would.

Put simply, they will care about the success of your project; they have some “skin in the game,” and will be keen to do an exceptional job for you.

Over time, the ‘outsourcing sweatshops’ you find in many operations outside the US will be replaced with more businesses like this.

For now though, you still need to be careful to avoid these ‘cowboys,’ and find yourself a reputable developer to work with. If you can, try and find one with a model similar to ours, because it’ll save you a lot of hassle.

It’s not all sunshine. There’s still a ‘corrupt underbelly’ (maybe that’s a bit extreme, but still) to much of the outsourcing industry, and if you want to be successful, you need to avoid it at all costs.

We’ve tried to show you how to avoid these kinds of mistakes throughout this series of blog posts, and we hope you’ll take them to heart, because if you don’t, outsourcing just won’t work for you.

As a kind of summary, an upcoming post will show you the biggest problems you are likely to encounter.