Global Sourcing Strategy
What’s driving Offshore Outsourcing?
- Mounting competitive pressures to provide more for less
- Desire to increase operating leverage, increase flexibility and expand margins
- Availability of low-cost resources in developing economies for labor-intensive tasks
- Rapid declines in communication and computing costs
- Acceptance of the Offshore Outsourcing model as mature
- Offshore Outsourcing increasingly being viewed as a competitive strategy driving long term profitability and market positioning
IFI can help pave the way to leverage Global Sourcing as a competitive strategy. A Global Sourcing strategy engagement will include:
- Analysis of key processes and functions to assess potential for Offshore Portability
- Offshore Value Proposition to identify measurable potential benefits
- Analysis of Offshore Risk Mitigation Strategy to identify specific risk factors, and the governance approach and management techniques to mitigate them
- An analysis of Offshore Readiness to identify specific process improvements to be undertaken prior to offshore migration

