| On Sending Your IT Work to India |
On Sending Your IT Work to India
The flood of offshoring of all manner of work to India has become an item of discussion in the public forums for a number of reasons. Probably the area of business support that has gone overseas that has gotten the most attention is call centers. And while there is a knee jerk reaction to using talent from India for certain types of offshoring work, there are good reasons why India has become so attractive as a provider of offshoring talent.
One reason freelance technical consultants from India do well with American projects is their firm mastery of the language. English has for a long time been the second language of India and many citizens of India speak English predominantly. So when communicating with organizations in the west, the language barrier is virtually nonexistent between Americans and citizens of India who seek to find offshoring work.
When using a freelance contractor from India, the best kinds of projects are those that are self contained, have a well defined begin and end and are projects that are easy to put a price tag on. This is why technical writing, project documentation and web development are often perfect assignments to offshore to a freelancer or offshoring company based in India.
Obviously, one of the big motivations for using freelancers from India is the cost. Because the cost of living and the economy of India is so much different from western countries, you can very often get a talented freelance technical person who has a firm grasp on the technical issues and strong talents to offer and still pay a very reasonable price for that freelancers work compared to offshoring the same work to an American contractor or offshoring company.
The distance and the nature of overseas offshoring limits the extent to which an offshoring firm from India will try to enhance the work, extend the deadline or take over additional functions in your company. And freelance workers from India are "hungry" meaning they are eager for the work, willing to work hard for lower salaries and trying to establish their reputations to turn you into a repeat customer. This is a perfect attitude that you want in a contract worker.
The internet has resolved so many issues in terms of communications, payment and document delivery that used to restrict offshoring commerce between the United States and foreign countries like India. With email, instant messaging and VOIP services like Skype, you can literally interact with your Indian contractor many times each day with such frequency that the only difference between having your work done in India versus offshoring it locally is you cannot have lunch together.
"Business is business" as they say. As much as we might have opinions about "the way things used to be done", offshoring part of your IT work load often makes good business sense. And the fact that we now live in a global economy is also a fact of life that has opened a lot of opportunity for American businesses overseas and for entrepreneurs from other countries like India to land work from American companies. So if Indian freelancers have become adept at satisfying the needs of American IT projects, there is no reason not to include them for consideration for project level work in the future.
560
|
Appropriate or Inappropriate Offshoring When the idea of offshoring some or all internal functions is introduced in a company, the ...
read more
Backing Into the Project Plan When a new concept for a software solution is conceived of at the corporate level, ...
read more
Cyber Programmers The economy over the last ten or so years has done a lot of strange things to different ...
read more
Finding the Right Offshore Software Developer The phrase "the world is getting smaller" is a popular one these days. Of ...
read more
Help Staying Cutting Edge For many modern businesses, staying on the cutting edge of technology is important. This is particularly ...
read more
How to Make a Mess of Offshoring It is easy to "jump on the bandwagon" of offshoring software development. Using ...
read more
It's All in the Offshoring Contract When you offshore software development to a software development company, the single most important ...
read more
Know Your Contractor Inside Out Sales people are a wonder to behold. And when you are receiving proposals for offshoring ...
read more
Living up to the Contract The first step of any project to offshore project development is to put out a ...
read more
Make Your Contractors Work for You Offshoring the developing of a software solution should be part of the considerations for ...
read more
Making Sure Your Outsourced Project is on Track When you offshore a project or a task of a project to ...
read more
Managing a Diverse Team When you take on the task of serving as project leader for a complex software development ...
read more
Minding the Store Offshoring your software development is often a slam dunk idea from the management level because you can ...
read more
Offshoring Testing Anyone who has been in the business of software development knows that one of the hardest tasks to ...
read more
Offshoring Out of the Country In any business, there is a balance between maintaining the staff and resources for an ...
read more
On Sending Your IT Work to India The flood of offshoring of all manner of work to India has become ...
read more
Protecting Yourself in an Offshoring Situation Offshoring software development is a tricky process in any situation. You are essentially entering ...
read more
Selling Management on Software Development Offshoring If you are in IT management and you are charged with finding the best ...
read more
Taking the Teeth Out of Offshoring Turning over mission critical parts of your software development to a contractor to take ...
read more
Taking Your Web Development Elsewhere Developing a web site for your business is an important step to stay in touch ...
read more
The Contractor's Attitude When IT work is offshored to contract labor, there a lot more to that than just turning ...
read more
When NOT to Outsource The trend toward offshoring software development in businesses has given IT management and senior executive management ...
read more
When the Contractors Leave When you offshore project development, there are a lot of advantages to be had. You take ...
read more
Who Can- Give You Great SEO? In this new century to have a business of any kind and not have ...
read more
Why Not Let Writers do Your Technical Writing? Software development takes some very specific and technical skills. When you build ...
read more
|
|
|
Disclaimer:
The Publisher has strived to be as accurate and complete as possible in
the creation of this website, notwithstanding the fact that he does not
warrant or represent at any time that the contents within are accurate
due to the rapidly changing nature of the Internet.
This site
is a common sense guide to On Sending Your IT Work to India. In practical advice websites,
like anything else in life, there are no guarantees of income made.
Readers are cautioned to reply on their own judgment about their
individual circumstances to act accordingly.
This site
is not intended for use as a source of legal, business, accounting or
financial advice. All readers are advised to seek services of competent
professionals in legal, business, accounting, and finance field.
Any
perceived slights of specific people or organizations are unintentional.
|