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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Outsourcing By Lms

Posted by Anonymous on 3/2/2005 at 3:35 PM ET 250 Points
what are the strategic advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing product development by the learning management system providers to india?
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  • Posted by Markitek on 3/2/2005 at 4:02 PM Accepted
    As a member of a Board of Adivsors of an LMS company, my view is that the strategic advantages far outweigh disadvantages . . .

    India has high education standards, a lot of available talent, and unrealistically low expectations of what they should charge--so you can find good inexpensive work.

    Disadvantages are primarly communications-based, simply because they are so remote and you have timezones to fight with.

    I would give a more cautious answer were you in the content space, but in the LMS space it's not a bad way to go.

    You have to make sure you find a good outfit, but that's done through references.

    Read here to get a broader view.

    https://www.cio.com/sourcing/outsourcing/links.html
  • Posted by Valerie Witt on 4/30/2005 at 10:47 PM Moderator
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