Outsourcing Fudamental
I have a well defined set of skills. I am a business man. I am not a techie. I have never written a line of code in my life... nor do I intend too.
I am setting out to develop a number of internet based businesses and I will be outsourcing the programming.
I am in the process of evaluating whether I want to do this on a project by project basis using odesk or elance or a similar service OR do I want to look at hiring a full time high quality Filipino programmer/developer. (opinions on this are welcome....)
Here is my key question:
It seems in most of the reading I have done about outsourcing (and I have done a ton) the vast majority of case studies and examples given have the focus basically on hiring others to do all sorts of tasks so you can focus your time on more valuable things. So your outsourcing things you would normally be doing, things you fully understand and know how to do, but things you simply are choosing NOT to do but to outsource instead.
This is not what I am looking to do. In all the various businesses I have started and run, I have hired employees to do things I knew needed to be done but that I did not necessarily know exactly how to do. My goal, rather than being to free up my own time by having someone else do what I could do is to rather hire somebody to do something I know I need done but that I do not personally have the skill set to do.
This is a very important distinction as it demands a totally different approach to hiring and managing.
So: Does anyone have experiencing outsourcing things that they did not personally have any idea technically how to do and if so, what advice and tips can you provide.
THANKS!
Terry
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