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0870 8200270 We
are able to provide skills on many levels including but not limited to:
- CAD Services
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and Building Surveys and Leveling
- Feasibility Studies
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proposals
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- Planning and Building Permit Applications
- Construction
Drawings & Details
- Production information
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- Project
Management through to Completion.
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Outsourcing: Pros and ConsPRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE and DESIGN CREATIVITY.
Clients have access to experienced and talented remote professionals with experience on retail, corporate, commercial, residential,
institutional and tourist projects. Unlike the popular belief that outsourcing is a recent phenomenon, it actually
has been in existence a long time. To understand the growing debate on outsourcing, it is pertinent to understand the pros
and cons of outsourcing. Outsourcing
refers to the process wherein a business contracts with a third party service provider to provide services that might otherwise
be performed by in-house employees of the business.
Unlike the popular belief that outsourcing is a recent phenomenon,
it actually has been in existence as long as work specialization has existed. In fact, companies have been known to have used
outsourcing in some form or the other since a long long time. Typically, companies have been known to outsource those functions
that are considered non-core to the business or such functions which needed specialized skills unavailable in the open market.
Of late, outsourcing has been attracting a lot of debates. And the main reason for the ongoing debate is the emergence
of service providers from various countries trying to provide services in foreign locations. To understand the growing debate
on outsourcing, it is pertinent to understand the pros and cons of outsourcing.
The main advantages for business
to opt for outsourcing are:
1. Cost Savings:- The costs associated with an in-house employee is always higher than the
cost of an outside service provider and this is the primary reason for most of businesses to opt for outsourcing non-core
functions.
2. Quality services:- Since most of the third party service providers excel at the services they provide,
businesses are guaranteed of better quality than an in-house employee would give. Additionally, any service provider will
always look to give the best of services since their reputation is at stake.
3. Access to specialized skills:-
Any third party service provider will be expert at the service that it provides. In fact, to beat competition, it would have
to keep honing the skills of its employees. Also, the service provider would build up specialized skills in it's niche
area of operation. By outsourcing to such a service provider, business gets access to such specialized skills, which may be
of use in some other field of operation of the business.
4. Contractual Obligation:- The liability of a service
provider is higher than that of an in-house employee. This makes working with them a safer bet for businesses.
5.
Staffing issues:- By outsourcing a non-core function, a business avoids all the headache associated with recruiting and hiring
staff for such non-core function.
6. Risk Mitigation:- Many a times, non-core functions may become critical and
would need skilled intervention, which the business may be lacking. At such times, if the same function is outsourced and
becomes critical in the hands of the service provider, because of the talent pool available at the service provider's
end and because of all the experiences it would have gained by way of servicing other clients, it would be in a much better
position to counter any kind of risks.
7. Capacity Management:- There may be times when the non-core function
may need additional hands to meet deadline. In such times, it would become difficult for an in-house employee to tackle the
pressure. However, if the function is outsourced, the headache of meeting the deadline is of the service provider. Besides,
since the service provider would have a significantly large talent pool at it's disposal, it can easily tide over such
issues.
Those are some of the benefits associated with outsourcing.
PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE and DESIGN CREATIVITY.
Clients
have access to experienced and talented remote professionals with experience on retail, corporate, commercial, residential, institutional and tourist projects. Unlike the popular belief that outsourcing is a recent phenomenon, it actually has been in
existence as long time. To understand the growing debate on outsourcing, it is pertinent to understand the pros and cons of
outsourcing. Outsourcing refers to the process wherein a business
contracts with a third party service provider to provide services that might otherwise be performed by in-house employees
of the business.
Unlike the popular belief that outsourcing is a recent phenomenon, it actually has been in existence
as long as work specialization has existed. In fact, companies have been known to have used outsourcing in some form or the
other since a long long time. Typically, companies have been known to outsource those functions that are considered non-core
to the business or such functions which needed specialized skills unavailable in the open market.
Of late, outsourcing
has been attracting a lot of debates. And the main reason for the ongoing debate is the emergence of service providers from
various countries trying to provide services in foreign locations. To understand the growing debate on outsourcing, it is
pertinent to understand the pros and cons of outsourcing.
The main advantages for business to opt for outsourcing
are:
1. Cost Savings:- The costs associated with an in-house employee is always higher than the cost of an outside service
provider and this is the primary reason for most of businesses to opt for outsourcing non-core functions.
2. Quality
services:- Since most of the third party service providers excel at the services they provide, businesses are guaranteed of
better quality than an in-house employee would give. Additionally, any service provider will always look to give the best
of services since their reputation is at stake.
3. Access to specialized skills:- Any third party service provider
will be expert at the service that it provides. In fact, to beat competition, it would have to keep honing the skills of its
employees. Also, the service provider would build up specialized skills in it's niche area of operation. By outsourcing
to such a service provider, business gets access to such specialized skills, which may be of use in some other field of operation
of the business.
4. Contractual Obligation:- The liability of a service provider is higher than that of an in-house
employee. This makes working with them a safer bet for businesses.
5. Staffing issues:- By outsourcing a non-core
function, a business avoids all the headache associated with recruiting and hiring staff for such non-core function.
6. Risk Mitigation:- Many a times, non-core functions may become critical and would need skilled intervention, which the
business may be lacking. At such times, if the same function is outsourced and becomes critical in the hands of the service
provider, because of the talent pool available at the service provider's end and because of all the experiences it would
have gained by way of servicing other clients, it would be in a much better position to counter any kind of risks.
7. Capacity Management:- There may be times when the non-core function may need additional hands to meet deadline. In such
times, it would become difficult for an in-house employee to tackle the pressure. However, if the function is outsourced,
the headache of meeting the deadline is of the service provider. Besides, since the service provider would have a significantly
large talent pool at it's disposal, it can easily tide over such issues.
Those are some of the benefits associated
with outsourcing.
See Project section for Portfolio and examples of Project experience.
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