MANAGED CO-SOURCING
Leverage external capability and resources in a truly collaborative partnership with internal teams to succeed beyond expectations.
OLD AND BUSTED
OUTSOURCING
For decades, companies have been outsourcing to improve capacity at reduced costs.
ON THE CHEAP
Lower labor wages, relaxed compliance regulations, and significantly reduced CODB (cost of doing business) in developing countries allow first-world product and service providers to maintain stockholder friendly bottom-lines. Unfortunately, the adage “you get what you pay for” has never been more relevant.
OUT OF SYNC
Specialty expertise, scalable infrastructure, and sufficiency of resources might make outsourcing necessary domestically or in countries where the language and culture gap is less of an issue. Even with a much higher cost and the comparable expected value of provision, it still doesn’t negate the underlying disconnect between teams that hinder productivity and progress.
OFF THE MARK
Although outsourcing might be the holy grail for executives, it has become the cup of affliction for managers who are held accountable for performance results. Cultural differences, language barriers, and the overall detachment from principal objectives create an atmosphere of confusion and conflict that impedes effectiveness and progress and negatively affects more than just the numbers.
INDIFFERENCE AND INEFFICIENCY
Outsourcing is like politics. Once the contract is signed, the vendor will be hyperfocused on campaigning for succeeding years options because the first is usually a loss-leader. Ramp-up costs significant time, energy, and resources with unevenly distributed risk, which causes unnecessarily limited results from a similarly mediocre effort. Also, while internal teams are motivated by bonuses, promotions, pizza parties, and a pat on the back, the external teams do a lot of the legwork without it. This unbalance nurtures a culture of indifference and inefficiency.
THE NEW HOTNESS
CO-SOURCING
Imagine the results if your outsourced partner were vested in your success.
THE PURPOSE OF CO
Co-Sourcing is a relationship based on mutually beneficial interests and balanced risk. An interdependent partnership that embraces the spirit of a joint venture while maintaining the client/vendor distinction. Both parties are motivated to work together toward common goals with team-centric unity as their blueprint for success.
THE POWER OF CO
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Committing to a long-term engagement gives the vendor confidence to invest in the costly transition of resources.
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With the agreement focused on inspiring effective communication, collaboration, and cooperation through whole-team (internal and external) incentives, we can achieve milestones more efficiently.
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Promoting creativity and out-of-the-box thinking capitalizes on the collective brain trust of the team to overcome obstacles faster.
THE PROFIT OF CO
Humans have an inherent need for togetherness. We are hard-wired by our Creator with an insatiable desire for connection. When we’re assured (encouraged) and appreciated (valued) by our peers and superiors, our predisposition to self-assess (analyze) and act (contribute) is stimulated. This cycle of cause and effect energizes our momentum toward the prosperity of whatever we set our out to accomplish.
U.S. Cloud Consulting helps you build emotional equity in every team member by reinforcing a positive, people-over-profits atmosphere. In doing so, we’ll empower the humans performing the work to give us their best and challenge them to expand beyond it.
Happy humans make bountiful bottom-lines.
HABITUAL COLLABORATION
Although teamwork is intuitive to our DNA, our culture has conditioned us to compete, not collaborate. Our self-serving nature has short-circuited our impulse for community and has created a void of personal fulfillment.
“…For what I desire to do, that I do not practice; but what I despise, that I do instead.”
~ Romans 7:15 ~
U.S. Cloud Consulting will help bridge this gap by mentoring internal and external teams from the executive tier to the production floor. We’ll rekindle the fire for oneness by influencing motives with a unifying purpose and recalibrating expectations to crave synergy. The best way to change a habit is by replacing it with a better one, and the best way to improve efficiency is with habitual collaboration.
WHY DO YOU NEED U.S. CLOUD CONSULTING?
To do more, in less time, with less overhead and expense.
HOW DOES THIS WORK?
Co-Sourcing is a game-changing client/vendor relationship model when effectively managed and mediated. That’s where I come in. Think of me as your business relationship coach and referee; matchmaker and counselor; ambassador and analyst. My involvement, to assist in the success of your mission, would be through:
PHASE 1: PREPARATION
- Learning the future goals and foreseeable challenges of your mission
- Reviewing the general patterns and processes of departmental workflows
- Assessing the requirements and capabilities of your technical infrastructure
- Surveying the internal culture and external ecosystem of your institution
PHASE 2: PRESENTATION
- Reporting our analysis and interpretation to verify overall comprehension
- Qualifying our knowledge and experience relative to your scope of expectation
- Researching the best cloud products and services to align with objectives
- Proposing a cooperative solutions blueprint with phased milestones and deadlines
PHASE 3: PRODUCTION
- Screening potential outsourced partners and SaaS platforms
- Mediating vendor relationships to maximize efficiency and ongoing support
- Facilitating productive virtual meetings and collaborative brainstorming sessions
- Managing the progress and accountability of internal and external teams
PHASE 4: PROPAGATION
- Administrating solutions implementation and employee transition
- Establishing policy addendums and revised procedural documentation
- Mentoring principle staff on how to utilize new tools and systems effectively
- Evaluating results and making potential next-step recommendations
SCHEDULE A CALL
In the past twenty (20) years, I’ve had the privilege to help countless businesses exceed expectations by simplifying problems into two key elements, psychology and tech-knowledgy. As an outside consultant, I’m able to see the bigger picture from an unbiased perspective and efficiently support your teams’ ability to achieve success.
