The change in international technology landscape will usher new expectations and levels of support for both outsourcing companies and business enterprises. This is as a result of the fact that, many companies prefer using outsourcing IT talents to achieve success in critical tasks such as cybersecurity, and big data-preparation to free up current staffs to complete other work and minimize cost on internal salaries.
According to 2017 Statistics, the international outsourcing market amounted to $88.9 billion, and it is certain to be constant in 2018, mostly for business services and healthcare. In this post, we will explore Srini Vemula’s, (a product management leader at IT outsourcing company SenecaGlobal) three outsourcing predictions that will change business and IT in the future.
Increase Demand for Soft Skills
According to Srini Vemula, soft and hard IT skills become more important and increase in demand this 2018. Communication and leadership will also contribute to IT project success. Therefore, Developers should get ready to fully acquire all the skills required to compete in IT market in a near future. In essence, there will be no place to hide in the lean environments of future engagements.
Companies will focus more on value to cost
Although most companies outsource IT talents in order to cut costs however they are now concentrating more on the value of services provided by these firm than cost. For Vemula, this is because customers are now more aware of the failures associated with outsourcing, and combined with the requirement to deliver IT results timely, will increase the need to provide improved value to the clients with transparency. Therefore, businesses will have to pay a great deal for high-quality service providers, and will certainly see the value.
Shortage of IT Skills will intensify
As more businesses become motivated by technology, demand for skilled IT workers will increase continually in the future, thereby making more companies to change to IT outsourcing roles.
According to Vemula, this will create high demand for major IT skills such as Microsoft software development, open source, and mobile skills from outsourcers. Thus, there will be more difficulties in finding Programmers with specialized skills in newer technologies and infrastructure as well as network resources will be in high demand.
