それは外部委託する時間であるか。 指数器の印
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それをしている皆。 -それらの挑戦を楽しみにしている会社の上の開始、またGeneral Electricおよびマイクロソフトのような主力産業は-沖合いに外部委託している。 結局、あらゆる会社の目的は市場に革新的なプロダクトを急速そして有利に持って来る無駄のなく無駄のな、敏捷な研究開発部である。 経営計画として、外部委託は会社および中核能力の焦点がより低い人件費に、賃金およびヘルスケアを含んでてこ入れすることを可能にする。
それにもかかわらず、「それらはそれをしている従って私は意志、余りに」決定外部委託するべき十分によい理由ではない。 アウトソーシングは強力で、有益な作戦である場合もある。 但し、アウトソーシングの挑戦の1つは外部委託の埋め込まれたプロダクト研究開発プロジェクトがあなたの投資の最も大きいリターンをいつ提供するか識別している。 長い円は知らせるこれらの指数器の印に注意することを推薦する: それはあなたの会社に勤めるためにアウトソーシングを置く時間である。
余りにも多くはスタックした準備中を写し出すか。
あなたの販売のチームがあなたの顧客にあなたの開発のパイプラインで付くプロダクトを約束しているのであなたのR & Dは重圧の下で構成であるか。 一流の会社は革新的なプロダクトを市場に流れさせ続ける。 憂鬱な生活を送っていれば余りにも多くのプロジェクトを持ち、これらの障害のいくつかに直面すれば、それアウトソーシングによってあなたのパイプラインおよびあなたの収益性を拡大する`sの時間。
• 高価な、フル・スケールの開発事業は資源の欠乏のために遅れる
• 新製品のための未加工考えを発生させないこと; innovation suffering
• Too busy handling operations; losing focus on your core business
• When you have got to be the first into the market to gain the edge
• A mission-critical project needs your team’s time and energy
• When only 10 out of 20 projects slated for the year get the head count
• A backlog of development work is never touched
Put in the dream team
“There are never enough good people” is especially true in the research and development arm of an organization. Do you have a project that calls for specialized skills which aren’t available internally? Perhaps budget constraints prevent you from taking on more employees. Or, maybe your R&D production goes in cycles; sometimes you need more people, sometimes less, and you want to avoid downsizing. Outsourcing lets you keep your development team stable and focused.
If you need a dream team but think it’s out of your reach, outsourcing can make it a reality.
Prioritize and delegate
Where are your priorities? Some people would rather play golf on the weekends and let a lawn service or the teenager down the street cut the grass. In product research and development, there are times when it’s more productive and profitable to let the right outsourcing firm handle some of these projects.
• Maintenance-level work that you want to offload
• Too many legacy products out in the field to be maintained
• A one-time project
• Projects of low value
• Non-core work
Dollars and sense
Experts estimate savings realized in wages by outsourcing can be anywhere from 50 to 80 percent. Outsourcing enables your company to reduce costs when any of these scenarios occur:
• Competitor’s price is lower than yours and you can’t drive down your cost
• A new M & A requires additional resources to handle the integration
• Profit margin is diminishing and shows no signs of improving
• Uncertainty regarding capacity expansion
• Potential for downsizing exists
Start ups stalling
Is your business experiencing growing pains? If your company is a startup, you may have the latest and greatest product, but do you have enough time, money, and people resources to deliver your product to the market before your competitors?
When your new business is growing or just leaving the gate, you can’t afford to lag behind the competition. Consequently, some venture capitalists maximize their investment dollars by requiring a startup business to have an outsourcing strategy.
Outsourcing is a cost-effective way to make your product research and development scalable and more competitive.
China strategy
With over 1.3 billion people, China is the most populous country on earth and evolving rapidly. China is now a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the host of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Nowadays, “Made in China” means much more than consumer electronics. China is the emerging market of the 21 century and companies that realize how important this market is for their long term business success are scrambling for ways to gain a foothold.
Because of lower wages and a superior talent pool of engineering graduates, research and development outsourcing is a key technology enterprise that is expanding in China. For Fortune 100 companies on down the value chain, offshoring research and development in China is not only a way to increase profit margins, but a way to enter the promising China market and ensure it becomes part of their global strategy.
Conclusion
From pipeline to patents, companies must find ways to speed up their development cycle and get products to market quicker than the competition – or face losing market share.
If your company is facing a time, money, and human resource crunch that’s impacting your embedded product research and development organization, it’s time to take a look at outsourcing.
Hayden Hong is the founder of Long Circle. Long Circle provides outsourced engineering services to companies whose products and services rely on embedded software and hardware technology. Long Circle and the Long Circle China Center of Excellence enables U.S. companies to reduce costs, increase engineering bandwidth, and broaden market reach by providing low-risk, strategic access to China’s engineering talent, manufacturing industry, and emerging markets. To learn more about Long Circle, visit http://www.longcircle.com.
