| During the time of global meltdown, corporations | | | | aren't very sure while recruiting people with necessary |
| across Great Britain have tightened their belts. IT is | | | | skill set. Outsourcing removes any worries and results |
| being mostly outsourced along with many business | | | | in a highly trained team at your disposal. |
| functions. As per a recent report from Computer | | | | 5. Productivity: |
| Weekly magazine, the IT outsourcing is witnessing a | | | | Distributing IT related stuff amongst your team |
| year-on-year growth of 5.9 %. | | | | members would result in lowering efficiency instead of |
| Below are listed top 10 reasons of outsourcing your IT | | | | the other way round. According to the Confederation |
| business: | | | | of British Industry 2008 Skills Survey, 56% of |
| 1. Cost: | | | | employers are worried about ability of their employees |
| Currently, an in-house IT manager would be drawing | | | | to use computers. |
| around 50,000 GBP annually. Apart from that, there | | | | 6. Find out about the latest technology: |
| would be additional costs of recruitment, additional | | | | With rapidly evolving technology market and cut throat |
| company incentives, and a range of trainings to keep | | | | competition, an IT support firm would help you access |
| them up to date with current skills. This is a major | | | | various innovations and market best practices with |
| overhead both in terms of costs and time. | | | | their industry partnerships and range of trainings. |
| 2. Lack of in-house expertise: | | | | 7. Value added services: |
| In case you are not having enough space for a | | | | Your IT support vendor would be able to provide you |
| dedicated IT Support staff, you need not have one. It | | | | with a range of additional consultancy services like |
| might be possible that you don't have much of IT | | | | network's security, disaster recovery plan which would |
| related stuff to have someone permanently employed. | | | | help you greatly in improvement in your systems and |
| Thus to resolve issues, some IT firms offer unlimited IT | | | | saving costs. |
| support contracts, enabling you to call them almost as | | | | 8. Constant care: |
| if they were your team member. | | | | Some IT support vendors can help monitor your |
| 3. Extend your in-house expertise: | | | | system's performance regularly and help prevent any |
| It might be possible that you would have a dedicated | | | | loss in productivity thus eliminating any possible |
| IT Support staff. For continuity of your IT operations, | | | | downtime. |
| you depend heavily on them. What if they are already | | | | 9. Risk management and legal redress: |
| stuck on some issue when you are reporting another | | | | Outsourcing would help not only in eliminate IT issues |
| one or they are not in office due to some personal | | | | but ensure someone else can be held accountable for |
| issue and you need to get another one resolved? | | | | any crisis enabling you to seek damages in case |
| Outsourcing your IT Support to a dedicated IT firm | | | | anything goes wrong. |
| would help you gain access to a full team of experts. | | | | 10. Focus on your business: |
| 4. The skills crisis: | | | | Time is money and outsourcing would help you focus |
| Recruitment of IT staff can be tricky if you are not | | | | on core business and let someone else take care of |
| from technical background. As per Confederation of | | | | IT. |
| British Industry 2008 Skills Survey, 53% of employers | | | | |