So who can benefit?
Many people today are in a position to move all or parts of their current business offshore, or to start a new business offshore.
Those in the best position are people who produce digital or non-tangible products. These are products that can be sourced by a consumer over the internet and downloaded.
Are you: -
- A Software House - do you produce and sell applications, PC tools, games, music etc.,
- An Information Provider - selling information, eBooks etc.,
- A Service Provider - offering internet advertising, online directories, search engine optimisation or even website hosting?
You can benefit!
If you have a more ‘traditional’ business model consider: -
- Which parts of your business have to remain onshore - client liaison?
- Which parts can be outsourced - physical delivery of goods?
- And how much you can actually take offshore with you.
Seek advice to determine how much of your business you can actually pack up and move to the sun!
Amazon have a good title that might help you:-
Surviving the Digital Jungle: What Every Executive Needs to Know about Ecommerce & Ebusiness
Jack Shaw, Judy Sperry
If you plan to survive in the emerging digital economy, you need to understand what is happening in our society and in our economy, and you must recognize the implications for your business.
We have entered a new age of civilization—the Information Age. The Information Age is already proving to be as profoundly different from the Industrial Age in which most of us were born and raised as that age of airplanes and automobiles was different from the primitive agricultural eras that preceded it. Business Week magazine said, “Information technology affects every other industry. It boosts productivity, reduces costs, cuts inventories, facilitates electronic commerce. It is, in short, a transcendent technology—like railroads in the 19th Century and automobiles in the 20th.”
Are you positioned to survive in the Digital Jungle? The outcomes of the transition from the industrial economy of the 20th Century to the digital economy of the 21st Century are binary. That is, you will make the transition or you will not. Halfway measures will guarantee failure. Within a few years, surviving businesses will all be eBusinesses. Those who fail to make the transition will be bought up or simply disappear.
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