In a recent Dun & Bradstreet report they noted that “25 percent of all outsourcing fails completely and over 50% of all outsource deals do not deliver any substantive benefit at all“. Outsourcing failures are often the result of companies rushing into transactions with unrealistic or unsubstantiated expectations of cost savings and performance improvements that cannot be met because the client does not communicate its requirements in a clear way either internally or to the potential vendors. The outsourcing of many business processes besides IT also has the same less-than-stellar results – call centre problems are almost a
cause célèbre. Some people believe you need hundreds of pages of detailed specifications as complex as War and Peace to make outsourcing work at all tying up the whole thing in a tight contract that covers every possibility – clearly not a practical proposition.

The main causes of failure in an outsource in my view are :

• The buyer’s unclear expectations up front as to its objectives – poorly defined goals and requirements and a lack of outsourcing contract management capability are two of the top reasons for IT outsourcing failures.
• The parties’ interests maybe aligned up front but become misaligned as the buyer’s business environment or needs change over time (as they will inevitably)
• The provider’s poor performance against service level agreements – which in some cases is dramatic.
• The parties do not consider each other’s interests to ensure their relationship is mutually beneficial – the naturally conflicting objectives and the need for vendors to make money are often not really internalised by clients.
• Poor governance structure for managing the ongoing relationship – in some cases this is left just to account management.
• Poor cultural fit compatibility of the parties – asymmetric sizes between client and vendor as well.
• Poor communication; the parties do not proactively share necessary information with each other – the relationship deteriorates rapidly when information is hidden

Source Roy mogg

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