Strategic Consulting: On Shore Consulting and Off Shore Outsourcing Consulting.

Effective Minds offers a compromise between the high cost of servicing the IT function in-house and the high risk of outsourcing IT services overseas

The Key to the Effective Minds methodology is a clear, results-oriented approach that focuses on maximizing the ROI for clients by providing them with the dual options or a combination:

On Shore Consulting

Governance and Service Level Management:
• Joint governance processes keep clients involved at every stage
• Provides transparency on the engagement and the outsourcing program's benefits and objectives

People, Processes and Technology:
• Service-delivery approach based on a disciplined, proven methodology
• Focus on quality and scope management
• Security, language, time zone and cultural issues are greatly reduced or eliminated all together
• Domestic workers with better understanding of business processes, outcomes and deliverables
• Travel, expense and liaison costs are reduced

Onshore Outsourcing provides significant benefits such as:

• Departmental and Project-based Outsourcing
• Comprehensive Software Development Life Cycle and Maintenance
• Complete Standard Infrastructure Life Cycle Process and Maintenance
• Staff / Operational Augmentation for Infrastructure Support

Off Shore Outsourcing Consulting

With the current protracted IT downturn spending, today's CIO's emphasis is on two factors - cost savings and faster ROI (time-to-market). In most cases, cost saving, almost exclusively, has become the most prominent buying decisions for IT services. To satisfy this mandate and achieve a greater value of your IT budgets, you can aggressively implement your plans by using our Strategic Sourcing services. These services are deigned to leverage the global Delivery model. This model is based on the concept of Offshore Delivery Centers. A ready to use Offshore Development Center allows you to scale your work force instantly with absolutely no infrastructure cost and without initial hiccups.

Features of Offshore Development / Delivery Centers:

• Ready-To-Use Infrastructure with high Security, business continuity and disaster recovery mechanisms built-in
• High Quality Software Engineering Processes
• Large and Technically diverse software pool
• Proven Software Project Management processes and methodologies using our Blu Ize suite of products
• Provide 24X7 real time status updates and progression metrics

Extended Choices to meet client requirements:

Effective Minds provides its clients a ready-to-go outsourcing solution. Clients have the option to lease/buy fully equipped locations completed fitted with Network Connections, Telephone Lines, etc & can commence their Business without dealing with the complexities of setups in a new country. In addition, Effective Minds assists its clients with programs that would compliment & support their client's business such as Resource Hiring, Resource Training, Travel Logistics, home / Apartment Finder Services and so on.

Clients can choose from one of the three models:

• A Custom Tailored Ready-To-Go Location that would accommodate up to 50-75 individuals (small sized companies)
• A Custom Tailored Ready-To-Go Location that would accommodate up to 150-200 individuals (medium sized companies)
• A Custom Tailored Ready-To-Go Location that would accommodate up to over 250-500 plus individuals (large scale companies)

What the Effective Minds Team can offer:

Effective Minds’ Off Shore Development and Delivery Centers provide a ready to use virtual development center with practically zero up-front investment and at no cost of ownership to our clients. Our Development and Maintenance methodologies practiced at these centers guarantee several other benefits as well. These include improved Business Results, improved IT Services and Responsiveness, Availability of technology and skills, Scalable resources (Staff and Infrastructure), Predictable quality and cost; reduced Time to market, reduced burden of HR management, while always maintaining Complete Control and Customer Confidentiality.

Once you engage our strategic sourcing services, you can release your valuable resources for higher value-added work and can concentrate on your core business needs, while delegating technical tasks, maintenance, research or routine tasks to us - your offshore partner.