Hayden 홍의 

그것을 해 모두. - 그들 도전 기대하고 있는 회사 시작 뿐 아니라 제네랄 일랙트릭과 마이크로소프트 같이 산업계 지도자는 - 앞바다로 외부에서 조달하고 있다. 어쨌든 각 회사의 목표는 시장에 혁신적인 제품을 급속하고 그리고 유리하게 가져오는 경사, 민첩한 연구와 개발 부이다. 사업 계획으로, 외부에서 조달은 회사, 그리고 코어 능력에 초점을 더 낮은 노동비를, 임금과 건강 관리를 포함하여 레버리지를 도입하는 가능하게 한다.

역시, "그들은 그것을 하고 있다 그래서 나는 의지, 너무" 결정 외부에서 조달할 것이다 충분히 좋은 이유가 아니다. 하청함은 강력하고, 유리한 전략일 수 있다. 그러나, 하청함의 도전의 한개는 외부에서 조달 묻힌 제품 연구와 개발 프로젝트가 당신의 투자에 가장 중대한 반환을 언제 전달할지 확인하고 있다. 긴 원형은 당신이 당신이 알게 하는 이 폭로하는 표시를 주의한ㄴ다는 것을 추천한다: 그것은 당신의 회사에서 일하기 위하여 하청함을 두는 시간 이다.

너무 많 막힌 진행중인 계획하는가?

당신의 판매 팀이 당신의 고객에게 당신의 발달 파이프라인에서 찔리는 제품을 약속하고 있기 때문에 당신의 연구 및 개발은 압력하에서 조직인가? Leading companies keep innovative products flowing to market. If you’ve got too many projects languishing and you’re facing some of these obstacles, it‘s time to expand your pipeline and your profitability by outsourcing.

• High-value, full-scale development work lags due to lack of resources
• Not generating raw ideas for new products; 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.

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