Outsourcing some or all of your company's IT functions can jump-start your business, push it to the next level or just get your systems under control. But for outsourcing to work, you'll have to manage it carefully. Read the eight signs below before taking the plunge.
You haven't done due diligence on potential vendors.
That's what got Erin Hurry, founder of Girls with Goals, into trouble. She worked with a series of outsourcers to develop her company's Web site. "I took people's word. The first company we worked with said they had worked for Ford Motor and Bacardi, but I never called those companies to ask how it worked out," she says. And it turned out that that company had been sued by previous clients.
