Who will be outsourced?

"Li, since the integration with Sanqi, the number of people in our department has not increased, but the work is half as much. Do you think we should consider recruiting new employees? " Sean went to Li Shun Ming's office early in the morning to discuss the problem of increasing manpower. Since the group integrated two other local automobile factories, the workload of the information technology department has doubled. In particular, the number of employees and machines faced by the operation and maintenance department has doubled. In the past month, employees in Sean's department have been complaining bitterly. "I have been thinking about this since before the integration, and I have been hesitating whether to recruit people or outsource part of our information technology department." Li Shunming has been thinking about this problem for a long time and has been thinking about which way is more efficient for the group. "Outsourcing? But there are several branches in our information technology department, which one needs to be considered clearly. " Sean knows something about outsourcing, but he still prefers to recruit his own staff to do it. "Well, let's have a meeting on Friday to discuss this problem. You go first and I'll report to the CEO. " What has been bothering Li Shunming is which part of outsourcing. Thinking Angle: Friday morning 10 Meeting room on the fifth floor of Ningfeng Machinery Manufacturing Company "Everyone is very busy recently, I know. Since the integration of the group, the workload has increased significantly, but the manpower has not increased. At today's meeting, I just want to talk to you about the outsourcing of our information technology department. I wonder what you think of outsourcing? You can tell it all. " When Li Shunming talked with the CEO on Wednesday, the CEO agreed to the outsourcing strategy. On the one hand, it is professional, on the other hand, the cost and variables of recruiting people are relatively larger than outsourcing. "I think outsourcing is a very good way for our group now because the workload has increased. If we can outsource part of it, we can focus on more core projects. " Wu Yugang is the director of the R&D department. In his early thirties, he has a keen sense of some new technologies and is more flexible than Sean, who is nearly 50 years old. "I also say a few words. Actually, I don't object to outsourcing, but what to outsource, I think we need to discuss. Our operation and maintenance department is now on track. If we outsource, the existing people will have nothing to do and we can't do research and development. Isn't that why we are unemployed? " Seeing that the general trend of outsourcing is irreversible, Sean expressed his concern. "There is nothing wrong with your consideration. What am I thinking about outsourcing these two days? Now our group has many R&D activities, as well as many operation and maintenance activities. We are all good at operation and maintenance because of a long time, and research and development has been in the stage of continuous learning because of the continuous emergence of new technologies, which is relatively not so perfect. But R&D is an important part of us, so I am also considering whether to find a special outsourcing company to cooperate with some R&D projects. " Seeing the attitude of the two directors, Li Shunming knew that Wu Yugang did not have much resistance to outsourcing. "Li, I don't have any different opinions about outsourcing our projects, but we are short-staffed. Otherwise, let's talk to the consultant of the outsourcing company first to see what is suitable for our group at present. " Wu Yugang doesn't resist outsourcing at heart. On the contrary, he feels that if some R&D activities can be outsourced after the evaluation, it will be a new opportunity for his department to learn and grow. The meeting ended after an outsourcing understanding was reached. When Li Shunming returned to the office, he suddenly remembered that his old classmate Lin Haoran had just gone to an outsourcing company as a consultant last year. He dialed the telephone at once. "Lim, I'm shun ming. Are you free tonight? Make an appointment with you. " Li Shunming and Lin Haoran are bunk beds in the same dormitory in college. Although not a major, I have a good relationship with my roommates for four years so that I can "go through fire and water" with a phone call. "Ok, let's meet at our usual restaurant at 7: 30." Lin Haoran readily agreed. Li Shunming packed his things and prepared to go downstairs. I met Sean in front of the office. "Mr. Li, I thought about it. You are from a business background, and you are not very proficient in informatization. I think you still need to think more about outsourcing. " Sean said it seriously. "I will pay more attention to this matter. I'll talk to the consultants I know first and see their professional opinions. After work, I quickly went home to spend time with my family on weekends. " Since Li Shunming was in charge of the information technology department at the beginning of last year, he found that Sean is a step-by-step and stable person, doing things step by step and will not participate in any risky things. In a common vocabulary of Li Shunming, it is "rigid". In a small restaurant, Li Shunming and Lin Haoran are chatting while eating. "By the way, you suddenly invited me to dinner. What can I do for you? IT seems that the impact of my four years of IT on you has not been in vain, and I have started to take charge of the information technology department. Is your mechanical engineering major so brilliant? " Lin Haoran has been making fun of Li Shunming since he learned that he became the chief information officer. "It is not easy to manage other people's stalls. Our group recently merged with two major machinery companies, but they all dismissed their information technology departments. So now we are the information technology department of one company, which is equivalent to the informationization of three companies. Very tired. So, I want to ask you about outsourcing. Are you unfamiliar with this field? " Li Shunming's airborne CIO this year is not so smooth, and no one understands this. All along, he has hit a wall everywhere. "Outsourcing is a good thing, which can improve efficiency. However, it also depends on the informatization level of your group, and different levels of outsourcing schemes are different. You'd better find a professional team to evaluate you first, which is more reliable. Otherwise, outsourcing is not appropriate, and there will be endless troubles. " Lin Haoran for shun-li Ming nature is very keen. "That your company. I trust you. " Li Shunming is a straightforward person. "shun ming, we are familiar with, but this is the company's business. I think you can make an evaluation between our home and another one, and then you will see who to use, and you should also consider the affordability of your company. " Lin Haoran knows that Li Shunming's background seems to be better in the IT department, but this is not the case. He doesn't want to rock the boat. "That line, or so, you come to my company next Wednesday and give us a preliminary assessment first. Another outsourcing company, I will ask if there is any recommendation. " Under such a conclusion, the dinner began to turn to reminiscence and complaint. On Monday, when Li Shunming went to work, he called Wu Yugang and Sean. "You two are better at this than I am. You recommend an outsourcing company to me, preferably one that is good at operation and maintenance and R&D. Let them come and talk these two days and give us an evaluation. " Li Shun Ming say that finish, Sean surprised to see his one eye, Wu Yugang nodded in agreement. On Wednesday, Lin Haoran and his team came to Ningfeng Machinery Manufacturing Company. "Li, we need to know about the daily work of your information technology department and the basic situation of your informatization. Therefore, some employees of the Information Technology Department may be asked to cooperate with us today. " Lin Haoran changed Li Shunming's name in public. At first, Li Shunming was quite uncomfortable, but later he accepted it quickly. "Mr. Chen and Xiao Wu, with the cooperation of the two of you, Team S will introduce the situation of our team and your respective departments in detail. I talked with Mr. Lin about the overall informatization strategy of our group. " After Li Shunming arranged his work, he took Lin Haoran to his office. "Integrity, those two are my department directors just now. They are diametrically opposed. Of course, they are also related to age. One is against outsourcing, and the other is willing to accept it, so I don't know which part of the package it is. " Li Shunming didn't make it clear that day because he didn't know how to speak at that time. "The companies I come into contact with are generally willing to outsource things that they can't do or are not good at, but I don't think this is appropriate. Because if you are not good at it yourself, an outsourcing team that knows nothing about your company can only be better than your team in technology, but it is hard to say whether the system is suitable for the development of the company after it is really online. I generally recommend outsourcing the parts that the IT team is good at, so that outsourcing mature things will only upgrade the technology, and it will not be troublesome, and it will focus on more important parts. " Lin Haoran's words made Li Shunming suddenly realize how wrong his previous ideas were. "Then let's wait for the evaluation results." Li Shun knows that the R&D department is still immature, but its operation and maintenance are very mature. What is worth worrying about is Sean's character. On the second day after Lin Haoran's team left, another outsourcing company also started a preliminary evaluation. I don't remember any other Li Shunming. A word from their consultant: "You don't know how to package it for us." He was impressed. On Friday, the evaluation reports of both companies came out. The company in Lin Haoran thinks that the BI project of the operation and maintenance team and R&D center should be outsourced, while another company thinks that the whole R&D department can be outsourced. Lin Haoran looked at two different evaluation results, thinking about Sean and Wu Yugang, two directors with different attitudes, and lost in thought. What should be outsourced? Liu Shujia