Elegir a un socio de externalización es un poco como el reclutamiento de un nuevo empleado (o equipo de empleados), excepto la persona o la gente que está empleando suele estar a millares de kilómetros de lejos y nunca puede conocerles de cara a cara.

¿Así que, cómo elige a una empresa de externalización que sea adecuada para su empresa? Continue reading Como Elegir A Una Empresa De Externalizacion

As part of our drive to bring relevant and useful information to our clients on a range of financial management issues, we’ve worked closely with CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) over the past few years to develop the following bite-sized information packs (written by Jim Downey - Outspan’s Managing Director).

Called ‘Topic Gateways’, they are designed as an introduction to a range of key financial issues for businesses. These can be downloaded for free from the CIMA website:

Outsourcing the Finance Function:

Change Management:

Strategic Analysis Tools:

Mergers & Acquisitions:

Innovation Management:

A few weeks ago I attended the Financial Services Outsourcing Forum in London.  Usually this is a fairly upbeat gathering with leading industry figures catching up, sharing latest developments and celebrating successful deals.  This year, by contrast, it was a much more muted affair with many businesses in the financial sector clearly feeling the pain of what we now know to be the deepest recession since World War Two. 

Continue reading Outsourcing in a Recession

Choosing an offshore outsourcing partner is a bit like recruiting a new employee (or team of employees), except the person or people you’re employing are likely to be sitting thousands of miles away and you may never get to actually meet them face-to-face.

So, how do you decide which offshore outsourcing provider is right for your business?

1.     Flexibility – in any new relationship you can never be quite sure how things will turn out, that’s why it is critical to ensure that there is enough flexibility built in to your arrangements so that you can quickly get out of the relationship if things don’t work out as you’d hoped.  A great way of minimising risk is by asking for a trial before you commit to a longer term arrangement.  By running a small scale trial with the provider in a low risk area of your business you can quickly get a feel for whether the relationship will work for you.

Continue reading How to choose an offshore outsourcing company?