Outsourcing - is a dead end
ITEM 2018
Strategic steps to change your business
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Sergey Korolev
Managing Director
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Outsourcing Issues & Risks
Foreign Product
Companies in
Ukraine
They don’t need
intermediate layer
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Outsourcing Issues & Risks
Foreign Product
Companies in
Ukraine
Foreign Product
Companies relocate
top talent
They don’t need
intermediate layer
Most popular
articles on DOU
about relocation
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Outsourcing Issues & Risks
Foreign Product
Companies in
Ukraine
Foreign Product
Companies relocate
top talent
Salaries VS Rates
They don’t need
intermediate layer
Most popular
articles on DOU
about relocation
Salaries are
growing while rates
are not. Margins
are low
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Outsourcing Issues & Risks
Foreign Product
Companies in
Ukraine
Foreign Product
Companies relocate
top talent
Salaries VS Rates
Competition on
pricing
They don’t need
intermediate layer
Most popular
articles on DOU
about relocation
Salaries are
growing while rates
are not. Margins
are low
With each other
and
local engineers
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Does anyone think that crisis is knocking
on the door?
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Ukranian GDP/capita
$2,639
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German GDP/capita
$44,469
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Ukraine VS Germany
$44,469
$2,639
16X
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Resource-based economics
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<= we sell
we buy =>
Resource-based economics
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Is Outsourcing a resource-based type of
business?
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HR KPIs
hire more people!
Sales KPIs
sell more people!
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Ermm… what about
building great products?!
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Can we even categorise those
companies as IT-business?
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Can a Service Company be different?
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“Outsourcing VS Software Consulting: как поднять
рейты до 75 USD/час”
https://dou.ua/lenta/columns/software-consultancy/
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Engineering Design
Project
M
anagem
ent
Outsourcing VS Software Consulting
Product management
Business Advisory
Engineering Design
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Competitive Value Proposition
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Values define Goals!
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Values must be different!
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Building great products is Value #1
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Can Service business be even more
exciting?
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Let’s build own products!
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“Product X” real case
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Railsware
Consulting
Product
X
Diff
X - RWC
Diff
X / RWC
Revenue $1,300,000 $10,000,000 $8,700,000 7.69
Losts - $1,040,000 - $1,500,000 - $460,000 1.44
Profits $260,000 $8,500,000 $8,240,000 32,69
RW Service VS “Product X”
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Outsourcing
Software Consulting
Product Studio
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Build great products
Deliver them to the market
Ensure their steady growth
Multiply success
Product Studio
Produc
t
Idea
Product
Studio
Successful
Product
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Production
Design
Engineering
Marketing
Sales
HR
Support
Operations
Accounting
Production
Design
Engineering
Marketing
Sales
HR
Support
Operations
Accounting
Software Consulting VS Product Studio
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Smart Checklist
1.2K+ firms
100K+ users
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Happy Clients
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220K+ users
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Happy Clients
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Client’s
Idea
Product
Studio
Our vision to avoid the dead end!
Own
Idea
Successful
Product
Successful
Product