- Deciding Whether to Outsource
- Customer Satisfaction
- Definability and Measurability
- Financial Savings
- Sharing the Risk
- Delivery and Quality
- Scalability
- Stability and Variability
- Predictability
- Competency and Staffing
- Velocity (Reaction to Change)
- Key Messages
- Harris Kern's Enterprise Computing Institute
Definability and Measurability
Successfully outsourcing a specific environment, set of services, or application depends not only on how well you define your customer requirements, but how well you can measure how those requirements are being met. If you can't clearly define what you need and put the appropriate measurements in place, how can you expect your outsourcing partner to meetlet alone exceedcustomer expectations? It can't be stressed enough that you must be able to put the appropriate metrics in place. In addition, metrics allow your outsource partners the ability to measure themselves and to be proactive.