Business: The Growing Trend in Business Networking

The Growing Trend in Business Networking

Written by Andrea Pellettiere

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Andrea is an avid networker, a successful small business owner and the founder of Eleganza Meetings, Events & Conferences Inc. She is also the author of All About Small Business,a website for small business owners.

OUTSOURCING CAD OFFSHORE: ASSESSING SERVICE PROVIDER RELIABILITY

Written by Lakshman Balaraman

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Get in touch with some of their references and ask them whether they had a good experience with repparttar concerned OSP.

---> Criterion: The OSP Should Know Their CAD

Now it’s time to ask them for a small paid sample, preferably a minor portion of a project you plan to outsource. Check if their output is satisfactory (you would know best about this). Evaluate whether they asked you all repparttar 103971 questions they should have before they started drawing, which is a sign of good planning practice.

---> Criterion: The OSP Should Know Their Commercial Paperwork

Send them a detailed specification of repparttar 103972 CAD work you want done and ask for a quotation. Evaluate their quotation based on whether it clearly describes technical scope, cost, delivery time, non-disclosure, modification costs, payment terms, guarantee and mode of payment. If all these topics are overed, you are probably talking to someone with commercial competence --- good!

---> Criterion:Be Satisfied with repparttar 103973 Contact Person

Phone this person and chat briefly with him/her. Decide whetheryou feel he/she is competent and easy to deal with.

~~~ The Evaluation's Over: Now What? ~~~

By now you have an idea of how good repparttar 103974 OSP is. Start by sending them a modest assignment. Don't be worried if there are many technical questions: these should decrease as repparttar 103975 OSP does more assignments for you. But that's not all. Careful selection of offshore CAD service providers is not repparttar 103976 only factor involved in successful offshore CAD outsourcing. A major cause of outsourcing breakdown is repparttar 103977 client's failure to manage repparttar 103978 ongoing process. There is a lot to be said here; it will all emerge in my next article --- stay tuned!

You can freely reprint this article provided that you do not edit it and include repparttar 103979 following resource box: _______________________________________________

Lakshman Balaraman, MS (University of Michigan), B Tech (IIT), runs an architectural and engineering design firm, The Magnum Group, India (http://themagnumgroup.net), that provides CAD drafting services to repparttar 103980 global marketplace. You can freely reprint his articles in your website, ezine, or ebook. ________________________________________________

Lakshman Balaraman, MS (University of Michigan), B Tech (IIT), runs an architectural and engineering design firm, The Magnum Group, India (http://themagnumgroup.net), that provides CAD drafting services to the global marketplace. You can freely reprint his articles in your website, ezine, or ebook.

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