The Value Algorithm For Maximising Your Skills Mix - Market Research Report On Aarkstore Enterprise

The Value Algorithm provides a way for clients to look beyond the initial price point

and ensures that they are getting the best value out of their professional services relationships, be they on a long-term outsourced basis or for short-term consulting project engagements.

The scope of this report includes the foundation for understanding how to pull the value algorithm levers to ensure the best performance from their engagements.

This report focuses on four issues of the value algorithm: offshore balance, mix of seniority, productivity and how to pay.

Highlights

In-house teams invariably have very senior and experienced staff performing some fairly basic tasks alongside the deployment of the high-end skills that justify their relative employment costs. Through effective knowledge capture, resource pooling and resource planning, service providers should be expected to re-balance the skills mix over time.

Offshore outsourcing, as with all long-term relationships, is a journey on which both client and vendor go together. Many will never reach the endpoint intended, and several will see the endpoint change before they get there, requiring continuous re-evaluation and collaboration to keep the relationship and delivery model evolving.

Reasons to Purchase

*The Value Algorithm provides he foundation for getting more value, and better performance out of outsourced relationships.

*Provides examples of how best to shift the mixture of offshore/onshore roles, and mix of senior and junior roles to save more money.

Table of Contents :

Overview 1

Catalyst 1

Summary 1

Methodology 2

Executive Summary 3

Offshoring is a journey 3

Tackling the mix of seniority is crucial 3

CMMI style approaches are more holistic than KPIs 3

Choose pricing models for the specific situation 4

Table of Contents 5

Table of Figures 6

Table of Tables 7

Introduction 8

Moving beyond price: the value algorithm 8

Aims of this report 10

Offshore Balance 11

Getting the best out of the offshore 'mix' 11

Managing offshore mix 12

Establish shared goals and collaborate 13

Mix of Seniority 14

Achieving an optimum resource mix 14

Tackling mix will pay the biggest dividend 15

Productivity 17

CMMI as a surrogate for productivity assurance 17

Industry standards 17

Productivity gains through CMMI 18

How to Pay 20

Get the right change from the pricing model 20

No shortage of commercial model options 21

Working the Value Algorithm 23

Challenge your commercial management 23

APPENDIX 24

Further reading 24

Ask the analyst 24

Orbys consulting 24

Disclaimer 24

List of Tables

Table 1: Notional resource mix 14

Table 2: Modest Offshore component and high senior role mix 16

Table 3: Greater proportion of offshore and more junior roles 16

Table 4: Productivity gain potential between CMMI level 1 and level 3 19

Table 5: Elapsed time to progress from CMMI level 1 to CMMI level 3 19

Table 6: List of potential pricing model options 21

Table 7: Pricing category pros and cons 22

List of Figures

Figure 1: The value algorithm 9

Figure 2: Vendor views of 'ideal' offshore delivery mix 12

Figure 3: Typical constraints to optimum outsourcing 15

For more information please visit :

http://www.aarkstore.com/reports/The-Value-Algorithm-for-Maximising-your-Skills-Mix-53114.html

by: Aarkstore Enterprise

POST COMMENT

Dark Circles Miracle Scam Acetrader-Daily Market Outlook 9-11-2010 Open up China market through IBUonline Hong Kong Prepaid Mobile Market Dog Skin Solutions Scam Marketing Making Use Of Wordpress Selenium Dioxide Weak Domestic Prices Continue To Loose Market Easy Singing Lessons Scam Forex Trading: Make Money In The World's Biggest Market Global Spinal Surgery Devices: Market Analysis And Opportunity Assessment Introduction to Email Marketing and its Benefits Why Is Article Marketing Important? 5 Basic Tips for Social Media Marketing