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Today as we go ahead we can see there are more Technology products coming in daily. And every tech savvy person has product Idea into his mind. There are many ways to convert that idea into a valuable product. Let’s discuss what will be one of the best ways to do build a great product and faster than you think.

For a start, every entrepreneur wants to build an in-house team for building product. But outsourcing is quite simple if you understand the process of outsourcing. Let’s go point to point to understand why outsourcing can work to build your product faster.

Cost:

“The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing.” Every business needs human resource and manpower to run smoothly. We need set our expenses minimum for achieve break even or profit. You can reduce overhead cost by outsourcing the aspect which does not core to your company it to other company. If you try to hire resources which company doesn’t have core strength then this is an extra cost for managing those resources. When you outsource, you gain more efficiency and productivity, which simply translates to getting work done at lower cost along with higher productivity. Outsourcing makes sense for cutting costs, reducing the workload on an employee. The outsourced project may cost 75% less than the same project performed in-house.

Time to build:

“Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin When we outsource, we don’t have to invest time in recruiting, hiring, training. We also have competitor advantage, app development takes less time when people are working on your applications around the clock, so you can get your product to market more quickly than your competitors can.Also, you get real-time updates about the status of your app development project, ensuring that you are always on top of the app delivery schedule.

In-house Experienced Developer:

You have to stay updated on trends and social things, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving. In-house team of the company is not enough to globalize the company’s business. Outsourcing App development is easy to manage business worldwide. When you outsource your software development, you hand it over to people who are more experienced in this field. You have knowledgeable and experienced people who have got relevant skill sets on board. You can rely on them as they know the modern software development strategies.

Better Understanding of Different Platforms:

The main aim of the app being developed should be able to provide the best user experience. Firms which provide specific core development for The mobile app are skilled and experienced in developing a seamless mobile app on different platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows, etc. As outsourcing company has domain expertise in a mobile application. This can help to create a good mobile application with great user interface.

Manage Your Team Well : Delegation

Having a good team is very important for every organization. And you will be at an advantage if every member of your team is excellent at his or her job. You will always focus on doing work by yourself than delegate it to other guys. In the starting phase of your business, it’s quite difficult to get skilled personnel as we are struggling with cash and credibility.

You can not manage all the work on your own, as for business to go smoothly you need to focus on business than operation. Initial years of your business would be occupied in dealing with hands-on work with your employees.

Delegate 100% or nothing!

Delegation is very important if you want to run a business with ease. The primary aim of any company is to pursue growth which is not possible by a single person. You need a strong team and we pass on our specific responsibility or function to every individual.

If you desire to gain the trust of your team to lead them, then you also need to trust your team to work without your constant intervention. Your work is to set up a vision or goal and show them a way to do it. You can’t micromanage your team at every point.

“If you really want to grow as an entrepreneur, you’ve got to learn to delegate.”

— Richard Branson.

For a system or a process to grow, each node of that process should work independently. When you give responsibility with 100% delegation to your team member, it’ll reflect the trust you have towards that person. This confidence is very important than just shooting order all way through.

If you are facing trust issues with your team just try to implement this strategy for a month or so. You will find which people you can grow with and this would eventually lead to the formation of a strong team you always dreamt of.

Many Leaves One Tree

I see our world as a forest. In which every tree represents a business tree which generates revenue for the world. Each Tree has a purpose and they have different business domains. Each business Tree contributes to the world economy and it shapes the world’s history. Each tree connected with each other share revenue and also slowly strengthen our economy. In this economy, recently a new tree is growing rapidly and having great impact on our economy. I am certainly talking about Information Technology. From 50 years IT and its applications are changing the world economy far beyond anyone can imagine. And still it’s going faster and faster.

What is business tree?

Each business Tree consist of many small to big companies or we can call it as leaves. Each company generates revenue and jobs which add value to the ecosystem. So our tree must have good quality leaves and their number must be good for great economy. As number of leaves increases, our economy becomes strong. I see startup companies as small leaves in the tree. They are not generating big revenue like big leaves, but they are certainly capable of becoming big leaves and generate great revenue. I think we must support growth of startups and must care for them for making our economy great. Our economy is volatile. One break in the structure can collapse the tree. Each start up has their own set of problems, and which can be easily solved. Not only start up, but every company has their own problems too. Every person focuses on how much money they will get from other person’s pocket. Many start up collapse as they can not solve problems. Which becomes a greater threat to our economy. If we loose start up or any leaf in that manner, then we are loosing revenue stream which can generate jobs and can contribute to the society.

“You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours !”

Meaning “If you do something for me that I cannot do for myself, I will do something for you that you cannot do for yourself.” For solving this problem in the start up, we must collaborate and help each other to get over issues. Helping each other in this case is important. This one favour can change our economy. Together we can become a strong network of leaves where everyone can contribute in the ecosystem. We must understand, if we become greedy about money and trying to grow without considering its impact on surrounding, this may lead to distraction of your business as well as it will harm the ecosystem. By helping others, certainly you will not lose money, but it will contribute to your business indirectly. So stop thinking about only yourself, contribute to the society. Just giving reference to a good company will not cost you but you will increase your ability to grow our economy. And you may not know how it will benefit you indirectly. As I will recall “Many Leaves One Tree”.

Manage Team Well !

Every business will not work without operations or human resources. We need to be very careful about managing the team for growing business. Having a good team will always help but we need to manage that team to perform well. Management and leadership are the key features for the success of the team.

As a startup founder, our job is not just bringing business or money into the company, we need to make sure our internal operation must go smoothly without any extra cost which ensures maximum profitability. We need to make sure our passion must be passed down to the line, but only passion will not make sure your team will be high performing team.

As a manager, we need to convey instruction correctly down the line. While creating a good product we always depend on the team to deliver products. If we want to get things done correctly we only to follow simple one thing.

“ Give clear and specific instruction to the team!”

Initially, every person who doesn’t have experience in managing team do a very basic mistake. They didn’t provide clear instruction to the team. Every person in the team is different and can’t understand every word we spoken to him. We need to make sure the instruction we give to our team must be very specific and clear.

It’s not like we consider our team is dumb or they can’t understand the work we gave to them. Its just part of providing good instruction which team needs to follow and so they don’t have to waste time in assuming stuff which we don’t need.

As per Art of war (Sun Tzu), “if instructions are clear and it has been told correctly to person but the person still wasn’t able to perform a task then its fault of that person.”

Wait before start blaming that person go back time and think whether did you give clear instruction to the team. As if Instructions are not given correctly to the team and instruction have issues then its completely fault of the person who provided instruction.

If you are facing issue with your deadlines just try to implement this strategy for a week or two. You will be amazed by results by just simply giving clear instructions to your team.

Direct and Targeted Marketing using Mobile Applications

Marketing is a field which is very important for any business these days. Our business will simply not survive if we do not focus on the right marketing of our services and products. Great businesses spend a lot of time and resources on marketing.

The Internet gives us ample opportunity and scale to market our business efficiently. It also presents a wider reach and audience to cater especially considering the globalized world market scenario and the impact of Social media as a connecting platform. However, we also have to keep in mind that sometimes it also targets the wrong audience which will not be interested in our services.

If we target the right market with a clearly defined segment, only 20% such interactions will account for the majority of our client conversions. This will directly result in saved time and resources which can be further utilized in the same manner. This is one of the main potential factor of direct segmented marketing.

How do we identify our focus areas? That’s what many of us keep thinking and wondering about. Firstly, let’s just start by simply looking around. Are you already looking? Look no further than the Smartphone on your desk or in the pocket. Nearly every person seems to have one these days!

The moot question now before us is; how does this affect our ability to market efficiently in the 21st century?

Quite simply — The information about us, our product, service, reviews, competition… and price… is at the touch of a fingertip these days. It’s so easy for our prospective clients to dig up any information about us. If they see something they don’t like… or something of better interest around, they’re gone before you realize it and only a few in hundreds, ever come back.

Mobile applications facilitate direct access to our clients and they can connect with us anytime and sometimes even without the need of internet.

One of the major benefit to have a dedicated mobile app for our business is that we can easily give our clients/customers access to the information you want them to have. Whether this means announcing special sales or introducing a digital loyalty program, we can market directly to the target base clients/customers which in turn will also allow us to inform them about our products and services.

Feel the need to have a mobile app now? No worries! Simply contact info@openinfotech.org and we will hand over a custom made no obligation FREE quote for you.

Native vs Hybrid Application

Nowadays Mobile applications has become a necessity for most of the business including retail, education and legal. Every business owner wants to build mobile applications mostly for business growth or more reach. This becomes a new way of marketing big business.

What is Hybrid Application? Why to use it?

“Hybrid applications are web applications in the native browser, such as UIWebView in iOS and WebView in Android. Hybrid apps are developed using HTML, CSS and Javascript and then wrapped in a native application using platforms like Cordova.”

To understand this in a simpler way, consider an application which can run on Android, iOS and Windows etc. Because of this, we say “Write Once, Run Anywhere”.This type of applications are known as hybrid application.

Pros:

The Hybrid Application has certain features like reduction of writing code for every platform, which can reduce cost and time of building an application. As we use mostly HTML for building Hybrid applications, so it is easy to write Html code.

As startups want to build a simple MVP for validating their ideas. It’s cost effective, which impresses investors. Many startups start with the hybrid applications as it is easy to build and easy way make money.

Cons:

Hybrid looks onefold at the starting, but as we move inside it gets manifold. For a complicated idea, the hybrid platform is not a good choice. The hybrid application works good with straightforward ideas. The hybrid applications has certain limitation with core functionality like camera, local storage etc, which is provided by the respective Native platform.

Latest updates are also an important problem for the hybrid platform, that is you can’t work on latest API and SDK provided by the respective platform, hybrid platform needs to create their own SDK and then deploy .

What is Native Application? Why to use it?

“A native application (native app) is an application program that has been developed for use on a particular platform or device. Because native apps are written for a specific platform, they can interact with and take advantage of operating system features and other softwares that are typically installed on that platform.”
A simpler explanation is “Native application has their own set of tools which allows the user to write a code or execute it on Native Platform”. That’s why we write Android in Java and iOS in Objective C or Swift.

Pros:

The native platform has their own SDK and tools that supports to build a full fledged Native Application. We have lots of documentation and code samples available to build any Native application. If you are a developer then creating Native application is not critical.
It’s easy to provide latest updates to the native platform. As concern to deployment it’s easy for a developer to update because native platform provides quick documentation and knowledge material to support developers to learn latest updates.
For complex ideas, the Native applications are one of the good choice. The native application doesn’t have any constraint with the camera, local storage etc. Also, we can achieve almost every functionality which relates to mobility domain.

Cons:

For Native Application, we have to write a new set of code for every native platform. This increases our cost and time for the building projects. So for every new platform, we need a different set of skills or resources.
The cost for updating or adding new functionality will increase. As we have to update each and every platform. Also, the developer has to duplicate same source code for every platform.
Which is better?
There is no clear answer or choice. Both hybrid and native applications are good choice at the moment. So I will say it totally depends on idea or product, which defines which platform we must choose for building your application.

You must choose platform wisely and once you decide, go with it.