Four Ways the Hybrid Nearshore Model Can Benefit Your Business

In today’s business world it is a fact that technology service delivery is location independent. The delivery team may be co-located, in-country or on the other side of the world. If it is a good team, your service will be good. The fear is if the team is not up to par, your service will suffer and ultimately damage your business.

With the new abilities for location independence, offshoring has taken off in recent years due to the potential for significant cost savings. The downsides to offshoring, whether in reality or perception, include media coverage of unwelcome competition from other countries and poor previous experiences.

Venice Consulting Group has created the Hybrid Nearshore model that combines the best of both worlds, and provides your business with four immediate concrete benefits:

1. Less pain. Any one who’s worked with teams on the other side of the globe understands the pain of conducting conference calls at night. With the Hybrid Nearshore model, working in the same time zone does away with night calls and dramatically speeds up email communications to same-day responses. You can also avoid broken video conferencing due to the long distances between the teams.

2. Reduced costs. Using VCG’s Hybrid Nearshore model, businesses may save up to 50% compared to US rates. One of the primary advantages that offshore firms provide is a dramatically reduced rate structure when compared with US-based resources. In practice, many people find the true cost of the project to be much higher when travel expenses, midnight conference calls, and re-work arising from missed requirements are factored in.

3. Eliminated risks. Do away with risk from traditional outsourcing. Our Hybrid Nearshore model works in the US time zone with teams a short and inexpensive flight away when face-to-face meetings are needed. All members are fully fluent in English. Reduced risks equals piece of mind for you.

4. Lower levels of frustration. Differences in culture can lead to misunderstandings that negatively impact your deliverables. Certain business cultures avoid confrontation by agreeing to everything while masking over problems, leading to missed milestones and increased costs. The shared business culture with Hybrid Nearshore members means that everyone is communicating on the same page.

VCG created the Hybrid Nearshore model in direct response to the frustrations we were seeing in the marketplace. The increasing competitive pressures require that companies leverage lower cost outsourcing as part of their strategy.