Offshore production
Close customer contact and mutual trust are key success factors
Sigma Kudos’ offshore services are a key component of staying ahead of the competition. By placing various parts of a project in different regions, we can fulfill the goals of most projects in terms of quality, cost, delivery timing, scalability, or special expertise.
Competitor analysis and industry trends show very few (if any) successful offshore projects within technical product information, except Sigma Kudos’ operations. Naturally, Sigma Kudos offshore operations ensures a significant cost advantage compared to onsite assignments, but the other major factors have proven to be quality, access to skilled personnel and a large pool of talented recruits. However, not all assignments and undertakings are suitable for offshore services. Depending on client needs and prioritization, various mixes of onsite, onshore and offshore are appropriate.
Close customer contact and mutual trust are keys to co-operational excellence for offshore projects.
A key success factor at each offshore site has been close co-operation with the local higher education. For instance, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, which is the third largest industrial region in the former Soviet Union, the universities educate 190,000 students (most of them within engineering or mathematics and programming) – a massive pool of highly skilled talent and a guarantee that wage increase will be manageable.
| Examples of competence focus per region |
Competence |
|---|---|
| Hungary | Editing, conversion, authoring, formatting |
| Malaysia | Web and multimedia development, technology skills |
| Ukraine | Software development and Information Management |
