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Orbys Approach

Orbys is an independent company able to provide objective advice across all the outsourcing service lines and suppliers.

Orbys adopts a flexible approach to client assignments – either advising the in-house team, or taking a hands-on participative role, or managing the whole process on the client’s behalf. Whatever the role, Orbys’ overriding goal is the achievement of the client’s objectives. Orbys is able to operate at any level, from producing a deliverable as part of the overall outsourcing team, to preparing and presenting business cases at board level.

All organisations are experiencing dramatic changes within their markets and are having to deal with major opportunities and threats.

Prudent organisations are considering their own strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The majority of organisations are responding to the challenges that face them by considering the potential of outsourcing within their business model.

Outsourcing arrangements must be designed with future change firmly in mind

Outsourcing arrangements must be designed with future change firmly in mind from the outset. It is vital to build in sufficient commercial and contractual flexibility to respond to fluctuations in scope, the delivery of new and emerging technologies and unexpected business changes - such as mergers, acquisitions and disposals.

Consider the range of options that face the organisation in planning its strategy and approach to outsourcing. As illustrated in the diagram, there is an almost bewildering array of such options – with key differences in types of solutions, scale of operations, speed to implement and style of service management.

 

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Orbys employs only experienced staff

Orbys employs only experienced staff, who apply a well-developed outsourcing advisory methodology covering all the phases of the sourcing lifecycle - from deciding what, whether and how to outsource, through supplier evaluation and contract development to implementation and ongoing relationship management.

For existing outsourcing relationships, Orbys provides a comprehensive service including healthchecks, benchmarking against current market best practice and client/supplier facilitation to drive out the maximum value from the various potential sources of value available.

Maximising the financial and other benefits

The Orbys approach concentrates on maximising the financial and other benefits of outsourcing for the client and minimising commercial and technical risk – the validity of a sourcing strategy is tested at every stage.

This methodology has been developed and refined over an impressive range of our successful outsourcing advisory and support assignments. As well as the methodology, Orbys uses suitable adapted versions of items from its library of support material (checklists, frameworks, starter documents, workshop material, templates, etc). This helps clients to avoid unnecessary work and ‘wheel reinvention’. This investment in the outsourcing advisory and support process allows Orbys to accelerate the outsourcing process and exploit the lessons learned on other outsourcing assignments to the full.