What is Right-Shore outsourcing for small businesses?

Big businesses have employed this technique for decades: outsourcing manufacturing work to China, knowledge processes to India, and marketing activities to on-shore providers. The result: Effective outsourcing model that gives them the best of all worlds – the right talent at the right cost. Won’t it be great if you can also apply the benefits of right-shore outsourcing to your small business?

You must be wondering that your need is small; you just want two agents at a cheap off-shore location to do your documentation work and three local assistants to help you with your day-to-day business tasks. No worries. Now you can also run your business professionally, without spending a fortune. With MyBusinessAssistant’s Right-Shore Outsourcing Solution, you can get what you want at the right price without the hassles of managing multiple locations. No matter how big or small your need is, we will tailor the right outsourcing solution for your business.

When should you select onshore outsourcing?

You should do onshore outsourcing or local outsourcing for your marketing activities to vendors who clearly understand your prospects to bring more effectiveness to your promotions. From a business process perspective, the two major advantages of onshoring are local language/communication and knowledge of country specific product/services and culture. For example, health insurance, transportation, and education are very country specific areas and may require onshore expertise to carry out some parts of the tasks. Similarly, where frontend communication is important, people with local language and accent are best.

When should you go for offshore outsourcing?

Offshoring has huge cost advantage and there are many services that are well done in offshore locations. These include software development, data management, website maintenance, document management, product manufacturing, and many other technical services. As part of offshoring, one can select the right type of country for the right type of service. For example, India and Russia might be good fit for software development, while China would be great for manufacturing. A near shore country may be a good match for something that requires close communication skills but not much country specific knowledge. Offshore centers can also work across time-zones if your business has tasks that need to be done 24x7.

How would you do it?
You have the following options:
Multiple vendors: You can engage different vendors specializing in different outsourcing models and manage all these vendors separately. This involves managerial challenges. Single vendor: You can look for a single professional service provider, who internally uses these two models of outsourcing (right-shoring) and gives you the best of all models. You won’t have to compromise on effectiveness and cost.

Right-Shore Outsourcing – A combination that packs utmost efficiency and savings

“Right-shoring” is now one of the most preferred ways to outsource business activities. MyBusinessAssistant achieves peak performance using the right combination of outsourcing models for all the operations that you outsource. Right from crossing boundaries to managing diversified operations to achieving maximum effectiveness at minimal costs. We clearly understand the specifics of each outsource-able geographic location, its people, resources, wage patterns, governments, and its policies, and get the best of all worlds for your business.

This model not only helps you organize business activities but also adds great effectiveness and savings on all your regular outsourcing tasks. So before finalizing your outsourcing partner just keep these things in mind. It's always better to look for right-shoring services, even though your outsourced operation does not require it right now; you may never know when you would need one, as your business is only headed in one direction, i.e., UP.

Key terms used in this webpage and their meanings:

Offshore Outsourcing: Hiring an external organization to perform some business functions in a distant country other than the one where the products or services are actually developed.
Onshore or Local Outsourcing: Outsourcing business activities to vendors in the same country.
Near-shore Outsourcing: Outsourcing jobs to a nearby foreign country.
Right-shore Outsourcing: Restructuring a company's workforce to find the optimum mix of jobs performed locally and jobs moved to foreign countries.

 

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