Focus on key point,IT operation maintenance build ‘Light package company’
Nowdays, since enterprise’s development will more and more depend on the success and failure of the major business,people use the way outsourcing non-core businesses to the company who is good at this ,which has become a important business strategy and operation model all over the world.
A research from a famous information organization outside showed that 90% of companies in the world outsourcing at least one of the major IT items, especially IT maintenance outsourcing services have been fully recognized and widely used in many countries. In 2005, the entire scale of global maintenance outsourcing market has reached 72.637 billion dollars, the growth rate to 9.5%. With the increasing of the demand from foreign-owned enterprise customers and the deep continuously of industry in domestic of, it introduced the further develop of China maintenance outsourcing market. According to statistics,the scale of China’s maintenance outsourcing in 2005 reached RMB3.869 billion , an increase 20.2% compared with the same period. The past two years, the trend of China IT maintenance outsourcing Market will keep developing rapidly .
Regarding this trend, many companies give the non-core business to outsourcing, we called this kind of enterprise ‘Light Company". Even though their structure is simple, small, flexible, it has rich resource for use and control to gain high profits,This way is better fit the requirement for competition, like flexible and innovative .By introducing many flexible IT outsourcing as a secret weapon.
Broadengate suggest to choose which IT business you can outsourcing take account into the following three point:
First of all, for IT business with high degree and challenge and importance. For instance, you can introduce consult service from some famous company to IT strategic planning after the development of enterprises reach a certain scale , This is based on a company really hope make it best, but there is limitations that their own IT department can not make it happen because of experience and ability ,then the solution is to introduce some professional outsourcing supplier as to help enterprises step on a new level in the IT application and management and lower risk.
Then, for business that the technology is understandable, but the resource is impossible. Such as application development, system security and so on, you can think about ask a professional supplier for this . Even though the enterprise’s IT departments can do by themselves, it takes a lot of resources - human, time, money, what’s worse is the effect maybe is not good, It may as well to give the task to the professional company to do, by this way can low cost, save time, effect guaranteed.
Last but not least, regarding the business that the technical requirements is not high and complex, like desktop support, network infrastructure, especially there are some branch offices located in different place need support and services, outsourcing these items will be good choice. This kind of job with low-tech, but need the high quality service , if IT departments take care of it by themselves will spend so much time and the human resource is limited ,so give it away to outsourcing company to do will be better.
The last one above is what we called it as "IT operation and maintenance outsourcing," Currently ,the world's top 500 in China enterprises like Siemens, Motorola, Nokia, Citibank, most of them have been introduced IT Operation Outsourcing service.As the operation and maintenance outsourcing for E-government in domestic is expected to will reach a high-level in 2008. |