CEO Monthly December 2017

30 CEO MONTHLY / DECEMBER 2017 , KartikPatel talks us through the benefit of IT staff augmentation for a variety of businesses, and explains howit couldmake leadership significantly easier. IT Staff Augmentation: A Flexible Staffing Solution for your Business For a successful business, you have to keep a close watch on productivity and cost. If you do not adhere to project deadlines, you will lose your customers to other businesses. But, meeting client expectations doesn’t mean developing in-house capabilities for every skill that the client requires. And, with the constant developments in the IT industry, it is not possible for every small business to hire people with different types of IT skills. So, what is the solution? IT Staff Augmentation makes meeting Deadlines possible IT staff augmentation is a flexible staffing strategy that helps you to meet client deadlines and achieve business goals. With the help of IT staff augmentation, you will be able to ascertain the existing capabilities and then determine the requirement of additional skills. It ensures making optimum use of your in-house capabilities and hiring only when they seem insufficient to handle the rising demand. Why IT Staff Augmentation is becoming a Go-To Strategy for Business? If you hire an IT professional to work for you, you will have to consider the additional cost of insurance and payroll taxes. But, with IT staff augmentation, you can obtain specialized skills without the burden of training costs. It makes sense to shoulder the burden of the cost when you are going to need the IT skills throughout the year. But, if you need the services of an IT professional on a project basis, it is best to choose the flexible route of staff augmentation. An Agile Business is a Successful Business To stay ahead of other businesses, you must be agile and scale operations according to the changes in the internal and external environment. With IT staff augmentation, you can judge the capabilities of your existing employees and ascertain the need of additional talent quickly. It allows you to step up your output as and when needed and gives you an edge over competitors. Acceptance from Existing Employees Businessmen consider IT staff augmentation a better option in comparison to project outsourcing or managed IT services. It is because existing employees can feel threatened with the entry of an outsourcing company. The employees may worry about job security and it can damage the productivity of your business. On the other hand, employees may not find staff augmentation a problem because it includes integrating existing employees with new talent. Total Control guaranteed! Outsourcing forces you to lose control over business operations. As you are not able to monitor every step of the process, chances of errors increase. By outsourcing a project, you cannot keep tabs easily. However, staff augmentation can provide you the opportunity to exercise total control over delegation of work and work-quality. It will help you to deliver quality results to your clients and result in long-term client relationships. Opting for staff augmentation has considerable benefits for a business. It allows you to scale your operations according to your requirements and doesn’t put additional liabilities on the business. So, next time, you are in a desperate need of IT skills, give a thought to the flexible strategy of staff augmentation because it can work wonders for your business.