- 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
Sharing the Risk
Share the risk with your outsource provider, both from a reward and recognition perspective as well as from a remuneration perspective. If you're meeting or exceeding your goals and expectations, make sure that accolades are shared appropriately! On the flip side, there needs to be an "or else." Failure of your outsource partner to meet any of the established service levels or metrics must result in a penalty (whether dollars or services) of some predefined type. This in my opinion is the definition of a true partnership, and it must be a partnership if it's going to succeed!