There is
no shortage of people advocating outsourcing. The advocates of virtual
companies are the most extreme but the truth is most businesses outsource
some portion of their workload. The concept of "focusing on
core competency" is confusing and difficult.
It is not our intention to tell you how to run your business.
Our
intention is to tell you that we have chosen to focus exclusively on our core competency.
We automate industrial machinery, all day, every day.
We know how to design so that it will work. We have worked with hundreds
of components, evolutions of software, and a variety of mutating
networks.
We discard the ineffective and apply
the effective.
We have one objective: to make it work the way you intended.
We have a great product, knowledge
that yields success.
And frankly, we don't want to be thought of as an outsource;
we want to be
an employee.
We want to be integrated into your long range plans for
growth.
Peter Drucker has it right.
The only function of a business is to create customer value and innovate.
You will innovate: progress demands it. Your competitors will: you must.
It's hard to imagine that won't include automation. You will need savvy
specialists for that.
We attract engineers who are drawn to innovative automation like a
moth
to a flame. Complacency is without companion at Tech4.
It ain't work when you love it.
We are everything you would look for in an employee.
A resume' of education, experience, and success.
This industry is cyclical; we all know it. We build up work forces and
then we lay them off. History repeats itself over and over again.
Shouldn't we learn from it?
It takes a while to get a (stopped) train up to speed. One way to avoid
the re-recruiting of talent, the re-education of staff, and the redundancy
of overcoming inertia is to employ Tech4 as your automation solution
provider. We aren't consultants: we are "hands on" solution
providers.
You can count on us to produce as a loyal employee would produce. The
Tech4 advantage becomes immediately apparent when the machine is
performing as intended; Tech4 is off the clock and off the payroll. Turn
the light off and call us when you need us. We will always return, no
matter how long the layoff.
Business Model: Concentrating On
Core Competencies
If it's such a great
idea,
why aren't more companies
adopting this business model? |
"As
a business manager, you need to take a hard look at your core
competencies. Revisit the areas of your company that aren't directly
involved in those competencies, and consider whether Web technologies can
enable you to spin off those tasks. Let another company take over the
management responsibilities for that work, and use modern communication
technology to work closely with the people - now partners instead of
employees are doing the work. In the Web work style, employees can push
the freedom the Web provides to its limits." -Bill Gates (Some
guy who works at Microsoft)
"What should be
outsourced? I analyzed a company recently and told them to outsource
everything. They said, "What do you mean?" I responded by
saying, "Well, you're not good at anything. Because the theory of
outsourcing always is let someone else do something for you which they can
do better, faster, and cheaper and if they can be doing it better faster
and cheaper, then why should you be doing it? I said there's only one hope
you have, and that is if you are going to be good at managing outsources.
So, if you can be good at doing that, you can be saved. By the way, if you
can do it well, you can be making an infinite rate of
return."
-Philip
Kotler (Management Consultant)
In their book Unleashing
the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance (Harvard Business
Press), Mui and co-author Larry Downes urge companies to perform
internally only those activities that can’t be performed more cheaply in
the open marketplace.
"I was a securities
analyst 70 years ago in London, so I can say that no financial man will
ever understand business because financial people think a company makes
money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They
think money is real. Shoes are real. Money is an end result. What is a
business? The only function of a business is to create customer [value]
and to innovate."
- Peter
Drucker (Greatest management guru of our time...my bias is renown
among those who know me)
Under the banner of
"No back office," for instance, he's telling managers to
digitize or outsource the parts of their businesses that don't touch the
customer.
-Jeffery Immelt
(The guy continuing Jack Welch's strategy at GE) |
