Does your organization outsource certain parts of your business? The core of all businesses has to be done internally in my mind but tasks that are important to your business but not core and largely specialized are a good opportunity for an outsource model. We just got back from a meeting out East where we were meeting with a company that had the technical capabilities to partially duplicate what we could provide, but the owner was smart enough to notice that they would be using valuable internal resources that would be other wised used on their core business. Also the support that they would need to provide this area would definitely bog down their core business. So what did he do? He searched for a company that specializes in what he needed and called us in to present and discuss how we could make this work. At the end of the meeting it was quite apparent that this venture was mutually beneficial to us both. An outsource model allowed their company and Canada’s Web Shop (CWS) to do the following:
- The company can dedicate all their staff resources on their core business
- The company can utilize their staff to support their core business
- The company can add more value to their product offering for their customers
- The company does not have to hire and manage more staff.
- The company can stay specialized
- CWS can focus on the niche expertise
- CWS can offer excellent support and service to make the company look great
- CWS can have a good revenue stream that will expand over time in a manageable way
So here is an example of a mutually beneficial outsourcing relationship and we have others where we outsource to others. To have a good business you do not have to do everything in-house often times outsourcing is a more cost effective model.
