I recently read an interesting discussion on Quora. I love the reply of Venkatesh Rao. I am currently writing a book on managing remote teams and engage many experts from around the world to write about the best practices on offshoring and nearshoring. Here is the reply he posted:
I noticed that a lot of business owners erroneously believe that only complex office tasks like IT can be outsourced. Both small and large businesses can outsource different types of office activities at an affordable cost without compromising on quality.
Whether you run a small one-person company, or a company with several employees; you can outsource secretarial work – this way, you will be able to focus on the profit generating area of your business.
There are organization who struggle to get Scrum implemented and used, and have difficulties to adopt agile ways of working. While the Scrum framework looks simple, getting people to work in an agile way with Scrum and getting benefits out of it appears to be difficult for some organizations. But I also see organizations that are successful with Scrum and agile, and which have found better ways to implement it.
I have had the opportunity to watch as small businesses grow into big, solid companies and have watched large businesses advanced to greater levels in business. The companies that employ outsourcing as a tool that they can use to successfully expand their business now know the tremendous value that outsourcing has brought to their businesses. I have made it my mission to help both small and big companies achieve their goal of getting quality service without parting with an arm or leg.
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Are you interested in promoting your business for quite some time but can’t because you know for a fact that you cannot hire a full time telemarketing employees? (Well, at least for now). What are you waiting for? Outsource it! Outsourcing your telemarketing to a reliable firm is way better than shelling out a colossal sum in order to recruit and train new employees.
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