"Outsourcing" Beyond The Conventional Model

Cutting production cost, and enabling internal workforceefficiency.
to focus on core areas of business are not just theOwing to this critical nature of outsourcing and demand
only factors that influence an outsourcing initiative.for better service approach, many offshore vendors
Today successful outsourcing depends on the kind oftoday are open to a more advanced form of
relationship you are maintaining with your outsourcingoutsourcing model "ODT" (Offshore Dedicated Team).
vendors. Whether you are outsourcing softwareThe ODT model is intended to provide an exclusive
development project, or maintenance, or R & D,round-the-clock service support, customized to the
testing, web design requirements, etc., the ultimate thingcustomers' requirements, practices, and even work
is to ensure that you are getting the same kind ofculture. In short the ODT model operates as an
work satisfaction you receive from your in-house staff.extension of the in-house workforce.
In this era of Globalization, businesses sought for aApart from reducing cost, the ODT (Offshore
better control on their outsourced projects. For thisDedicated Team) model sets the customer free from
they need to have a strong relationship with theirproblems such as incorporation, recruitment, office
offshore vendors or service providers. A relationship,lease, infrastructure set-up and maintenance. And most
which is sophisticated and interdependent; where youimportantly it helps gain better control over the entire
can get access to specific skills, control overdevelopment process, enables quality enhancement
development process, and increase overall resourcewhile reducing the production time and effort.