The TechSpend Outsourcing Self-Assessment is a downloadable questionnaire and calculator that scores your organization’s effectiveness in sourcing, negotiating and managing offshore IT and (Business Process Outsourcing) services. The questions and answers are based on TechSpend analysts’ experience in offshore services negotiation.
What Do You Get?
The TechSpend Outsourcing Self-Assessment is an eight-tab Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with over 90 thought-provoking questions, a weighting scale designed by our analysts, and a Results Analysis Page that allows your to compare your company’s score with our benchmark.
The Outsourcing Self-Assessment covers:
- Your company’s demographics
- Pricing — Best practices for negotiating pricing on offshore development and services deals
- Performance — Guidelines for measuring the performance of your vendor(s) against service level agreements (SLA’s)
- Portfolio — Best practices for managing your company’s suite of offshore support services
- Provisions (Procurement) — Key contract provisions that you should be including in your offshore agreements
- Process — Policy and procedure best practices for managing offshore service procurement
What is the Benefit?
The Outsourcing Self-Assessment is a quick and easy way to rate your outsourcing procurement process, and is a well of thought-provoking ideas and recommendations for reducing your services spend (or at least spending it more wisely.)
