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Transition Management for Outsourced Services

By Lelit Barrios, Hubport Group
 
A shift in management is a hypercritical factor of any business undertaking which top bills, handles, and allows people to adapt fresh procedures, functions, technologies, patterns, methods, and processes. It's the consistency of functions that aids people in adjusting from what has always been to the visualized way of doing things. The core of shift management is to prepare the people and organizational structures that will both propel or hamper the change in the entire organization. The supreme goal of any shift initiative is to guarantee that everything is set, agreeable, and empowered to effectively do their share in the envisioned setting.
 
What follows is hoped to provide direction for companies considering a shift management because of outsourcing.
 
Why engage in shift management?
 
Establishing new methods, patterns, and policies is not enough on its own to guarantee success in an organizational transition. When the people concerned are not ready or willing, they may actively oppose the change thus resulting to failure.
 
It is, therefore, essential to acknowledge, address, prepare for and carry out elemental steps to precondition people through the changeover.
 
Competent transition management and good communication lowers the risk, eventual cost, and raises the probability of success and a constructive relationship between the external service provider and the internal functions.
 
What are the possible changes with outsourcing?
 
Commonly, there are two major changes with outsourcing.
 
1. The transfer of services from the external provider entails adapting to a new procedure, likely in a new setting, with new processes, and a supplier- to- customer culture usually referred to as outsourced services transition. Transition being defined as the processes involved to conclude the plan, handle the deployment, prepare for and apply the changes necessary in adapting to outsourced services.
 
2. And, a new turn for the internal personnel on support activities to strengthen the organization as a whole. This is better known as the core transformation. Transformation involves the adjustment of the core group to accommodate their new member. This may include amending the finance and human resources departments, and providing a system to sustain either the transition or the transformation processes.
 
Nonetheless, this is not fail- proof solution. It cannot make up for a faulty design, inadequate preparation, a weak business plan or an unwise move towards the subsequent state of the company, it's functions and/ or methods.

 

 



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