Outsourcing is Broken - How VestedIT Can Help

For many companies, the results from outsourcing IT infrastructure and application development range from disappointing to disastrous.  Though the root cause is unique to the specific circumstances of each relationship, there are some universal flaws in conventional outsourcing relationships that can result in reduced value, lack of innovation, increased risk, compromised service levels, combative interactions and lack of alternatives.

Ideally, outsourcing relationships should reliably deliver IT infrastructure and application development at measurable value, at costs that are aligned with business objectives and that offer incentives that encourage innovation to transform how the work is done over time.  The needed move towards performance and outcome based IT outsourcing contracts has been a topic of conversation for some time, yet there has been a gap in knowing what steps should be taken next.  That is where the structured methodology and toolsets that are part of VestedIT fit in.

VestedIT combines the four influential business concepts of the 21^st Century: outsourcing, collaboration, innovation and measurement.  Like the Lean Manufacturing movement, VestedIT is about streamlining and eliminating non-value-added activities regardless of who is doing the work.  Taking this to an even higher level, what VestedIT does is offer rigorous methodology and tools for systematically developing, implementing and governing IT outsourcing relationships.  

VestedIT is a win for IT service providers because it can lead them to provide higher value services, deepen and lengthen customer relationships and operate more efficiently and thus, achieve better profit margins.  The company benefits by receiving a higher level of service that maps to its operational requirements and keeps costs under control.