ict outsourcing: is it an option?
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Prepared for: ICT Outsourcing Summit – Organised by Saudi Computer Society & NASEBA. 8-9 September 2013 | Riyadh | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.TRANSCRIPT
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Presented by Dr. Ali M. Al-Khouri In: ICT Outsourcing Summit – Organised by Saudi Computer Society & NASEBA. 8-9 September 2013 | Riyadh | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
ICT Outsourcing Is it an option?
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Table of contents
Introduction
View Point 1- In-house potential v/s outsourcing
View Point 2- Outsourcing’s role in developing knowledge based economies
View Point 3- Fuelling local skills and companies (on-shoring vs off-shoring)
Conclusion- Benefits of IT Outsourcing
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Introduction 1
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Introduction: ICT as enabler .. 1
• In today’s business world, IT is an integral part of business operations.
• No longer a discrete functional department, producing report, or processing financial data.
• Facilitate business and enable Organisations to develop competitive advantage.
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Characteristic Roles 1
Information & Communication
Technologies
Business Goals and Strategy
alignment with
lower costs
Facilitate Business
Automate Business Processes
Optimized Business Activities
enabling
support
business decision making
improve Business
Communications
Enhance Customer Relations
(information in real time)
(contributes to the bottomlines)
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IT in the Business 1
IT departments play a major role in the
transition and transformation of an
organization’s journey of process
optimization.
critical Strategic Alignment
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IT in the Business 1
IT departments thus have a lot of
functional activities that result in their own set of typical
operations and projects
critical Strategic Alignment
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IT in the Business 1
In many cases, it is seen that the IT
department runs on operations in parallel to the organization’s business operations.
critical Strategic Alignment
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IT Areas in the Business
• Infrastructure management • Data center management • Application management • Systems integration
• Help desk services • Testing and validation services • R&D Services • Information Security Services.
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1 IT thus works with various service providers or vendors to create, maintain, or reengineer a company's business architecture and systems. The key areas of IT Operations include:
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IT Areas in the Business 1
• Tasks and activities are enormous and need dedicated resources.
• This brings the business organization into a quandary: - should the organization focus on these IT
Activity areas (that albeit aid the business)?, or
- focus on the business itself that brings in the revenue?
- Are the costs incurred on IT justified that the business can spend on?
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IT Areas in the Business 1
• Although critical, tend to divert organisations from core functions.
• Many organizations moved into IT Consulting businesses while their core businesses were probably edible oil production or cloth weaving.
• When businesses are clear about their focus areas of revenue, IT departments can be safely considered as potential outsource areas.
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Outsourcing: is it a new phenomenon? 1
• New phenomenon or invented for the new economy?
• Existed since man sought to produce goods!
• No one organization could ever build everything from within.
• Business have always depended on vendors, partners to supply parts or services that were required for the goods that were designed and produced.
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Outsourcing: is it a new phenomenon? 1
• As economies developed and information technology aided the growth, IT became a new service.
• And then, as the organizations realized that IT was becoming more a bane than a boon, IT started to be treated as another commodity necessary to run business operations and thus could be outsourced.
• It all started with Kodak in 1989 when their IT operations was given to IBM to handle so that Kodak could focus on what they did best - make cameras.
• It is a separate issue that IBM itself started outsourcing their own IT business operations for cost optimization. This came with globalization!!
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Outsourcing: is it a new phenomenon? 1 • Evolved into a rather mature business
operations in the last 25 years.
• New businesses setup to meet IT requirements.
• Brick and mortar business could focus on their business and IT is available as a service commodity enabling the business.
• However, the IT Outsourcing has no single model for operations.
• IT requirements of organizations are as diverse as their business requirements. Even organizations involved in similar businesses have different business and therefore different IT requirements.
Outsource?
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IT Outsourcing Framework: Need for a Strategy?
Organization Objectives
IT Strategy
Enterprise Risks
IT Risks
Corporate Governance
IT Governance
Outsource Strategy
ROI Cost /Benefit
IT Areas to Outsource
IT Human Resources
Partner & Vendor Mgmt
SLA & OLA Management
KPI Management
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IT Outsourcing Framework: Consideration?
Organization Objectives
IT Strategy
Enterprise Risks
IT Risks
Corporate Governance
IT Governance
Outsource Strategy
ROI Cost /Benefit
IT Areas to Outsource
IT Human Resources
Partner & Vendor Mgmt
SLA & OLA Management
KPI Management
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IT as an integral part of the business operations and derive the strategy based on multiple factors
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IT Outsourcing Framework: what to outsource?
Organization Objectives
IT Strategy
Enterprise Risks
IT Risks
Corporate Governance
IT Governance
Outsource Strategy
ROI Cost /Benefit
IT Areas to Outsource
IT Human Resources
Partner & Vendor Mgmt
SLA & OLA Management
KPI Management
1
determine the CAPEX and OPEX
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View Point 1 In-house potential v/s outsourcing 2 … determining whether IT is to be outsourced at all ?
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In-House or Outsource? A Practitioner’s Viewpoint… 2
• strong proponent of “Focus on Core Business”.. • all non-core activities like IT should be outsourced..
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In-House or Outsource? challenges faced when non-core activities 2
IN-HOUSE CHALLENGES OUTSOURCE SOLUTIONS
Harnessing potential is a continuous process and expensive with a specific training and development budget
No training or internal resource development budgets.
High Maintenance – requires supervision, management, leadership, training.
Lower maintenance since the outsource is bound by SLAs and OLAs leaving the organization to manage the SLA/OLA
System Management needs continuous updates- management against obsolescence
Systems and IT Process management is owned and managed by the outsource partner with the organization needing to manage only service levels
High Capital Expenditure owing to ownership of infrastructure
High Operating Expenditure with no or very low CAPEX. The OPEX is offset by the cost of internal operations
Risk of Employee Turnover and resource continuity
Outsource partner manages their resources with organization focused on OLAs and service continuity
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• As the world grows digital and geographic boundaries become less and less obscure, the global economy is driven by IT.
• Information Management has evolved to Knowledge Management and Knowledge is shared.
• This takes Outsourcing to a new paradigm.
Digital World 3
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View Point 2 Outsourcing’s role in developing knowledge based economies
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• Is all about Globalization.
• Universal access to knowledge and knowledge is ubiquitous.
• Digital Economy drives the Knowledge Economy diminishing geographical borders.
• Tapping knowledge across geographical borders automatically results in outsourcing.
• One Connected World!
Knowledge Economy and Outsourcing 3
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• Technology transformed physical infrastructure available on demand as a service: Cloud Services..
• Data centers: provide computing platforms as a service.
• Knowledge workers are available on demand. HR as a service.
• .. all facilitated outsourcing activities.
Knowledge Economy and Outsourcing 3
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Typically Characterized by • Costs of Labor
• Access to Knowledge Workers
• Demand and Capacity Management
• Performance and Service Delivery Improvement
• Digital Economy
Outsourcing: technological in nature? 3
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View Point 3 Fuelling local skills and companies (on-shoring vs off-shoring)
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National Human Capital Development 4
managing partners and technology
Service Delivery Managers focused on customer relationships and service delivery
Mode of Outsourcing and Contract models (like Build- Own- Operate- Transfer)
human resource development and transformation takes place in the organization
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IT Service Delivery Active Directory Management and Administration
Server Administration
Storage Administration
Backup Administration
Network Administration
Security Administration
Database Administration
E-mail/ MS Exchange Administration
Help Desk Administration and Management
IT Incident Management
IT Problem and Resolution Management
IT Change Management
IT Asset Management- License Management
IT Systems Maintenance
Areas of Knowledge Development 4
IT experts are available on-site
Provide shadow teams that can work together with the experts
Knowledge transfer
On-Shore Outsourcing
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IT Resource provisioning • New Server Provisioning- Capacity Management • New User Provisioning • New Storage provisioning- Capacity Management • New Backup provisioning • Additional Memory and Processing (CPU)
capabilities provisioning- Capacity Management • New Mail Box Provisioning- Capacity
Management
IT Monitoring • Server Performance Monitoring and Reporting • Network Performance Monitoring and Reporting • Network Security and Threats Monitoring and
Reporting • Communication System Performance Monitoring
and Reporting • Application Performance Monitoring
Areas of Process Development 4
reduces operations costs
management teams get developed managing the
technology partners
development of systems and business analysis that focus on
information analysis & help organizational decision
making.
Off-Shore Outsourcing
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Application Services Oracle ERP Maintenance, Administration and Management SharePoint Maintenance, Administration and Management EPM Maintenance, Administration and Management Blackberry Maintenance, Administration and Management CRM (when implemented) Maintenance, Administration and Management
Intranet Services Internal HR e-Services Maintenance, Administration and Management Kiosks Hardware Maintenance, Administration and Management CRM Services (Internal) • Configuration of applications, hardware, databases and operating systems • Documentation (Operations Manuals, Standard Operating Procedures, Policy
Manuals)
Areas of IT Services Development 4
Off-Shore Outsourcing
Other key areas of development that could benefit for off-shore or near-shore outsourcing are Application Development and Implementation Services:
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Conclusion Benefits of IT Outsourcing 5 improving organizational performance by enabling organizations to remain focused on their core businesses.
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IT Outsource Approach 5
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Doubting Feasibility: 3 Phased Approach 5
outsource partner starts managing IT resources in existing state
IT Optimization Managing IT resources in existing state
Sustaining benefits
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IT Outsource Transition Methodology 5
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Conclusion- IT Outsource Benefits 5
• Standardized IT Service Management and delivery with SLAs increasing internal IT Customer Satisfaction
• Work on BYOD basis where users can get IT Services such as Domain Access, Office 365, Help Desk, Document Access, Security Services on the cloud
• OLAs leading to optimal performance of IT Assets leading to better utilization of the IT hardware resources and thereby better utilization of power and space.
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Conclusion: Knowledge Workers 5
• Better utilization of human resources: We can redeploy the current skilled resources to: - Focus on core function and processes.
- Utilize current skilled resources in critical projects since they will be free from day to day operations - this will lead to better IT Project Management and better delivery from IT Projects.
- Lower Operating costs
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Thank You Dr. Ali M. Al-Khouri
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