Outsourcing: A Guide to What You Should Know Before Choosing to Outsource, 3rd Edition on NOOKbook

The 3rd edition of “Outsourcing:  A Guide to What You Should Know Before Choosing to Outsource” can now be found at NOOKbook at Barnes & Nobel for $35 each. 

This edition talks about outsourcing trends and how it is applied to today’s daily business processes.  The guide helps to identify the best ways to select an outsource vendor, idenfity and analyze cost, negotiate contracts, how to terminate a contract effectively, and the best practices that should be exercised by the outsource vendor.  The do’s and don’ts to outsourcing are highlighted.

In a struggling economy the guide is a good resource in aiding in the financial balance of outsourcing when crucial moments arise and the decision to hire additional staff becomes critical.  Business professionals must focus on the bottom line of their buget and determine if whether or not outsourcing would make better sense or if there is an immediate need to hire additional staff when in-house staff are not available to for projects and or tasks that are needing to be done.

Through outsourcing, businesses have the unique opportunity of only outsourcing what they deem necessary to outsource based on their current immediate needs and can only pay for services they want on a long- or short-term basis.

The guides plays a major role in understanding how to foster positive and workable established relationships with outsource vendors and how to maintain control of the negotiated contracted.

This guide was written to maintain the equality of outsourcing to the business community, to better protect the client from unqualified outsource vendors who are not prepared to fulfill the structure of the contract.  It helps to broaden the understanding of the concept of the outsourcing model and the role it plays in serving the business operation as a whole.  In short, it keeps outsource vendors well in their place.

Order the guide and see what some outsource vendors don’t want you to know and what it is as a business owner needs to be understood about their place in establishing outsource relationships and their ability to contract out on agreeable terms.

If you prefer to order the guide in print, email your request to officeservices@asstservices.com and indicate how many you are requesting, or send check or money order payable to “Assistant Services & Associates” to Assistant Services & Associates, PO Box 191984, Los Angeles, CA  90019.   Please be sure to include $35 for each copy you order and a total of $3.95 for shipping with your request/order.