If you are not experienced in outsourcing, consider hiring an experienced outsourcing consulting firm to help you through the process. Generally the large accounting firms and outsourcing vendors provide excellent support for large scale projects, and there are a number of smaller firms that can help the small and mid-size companies. If you want to manage the process on your own, even the most sophisticated project management techniques can be broken down into four simple project management stages:

Analysis

Evaluation

Implementation

Review

After you have identified potential outsourcing candidates try stepping through these steps to see if outsourcing makes sense for your organization.

Analysis.

The goal of this stage is to determine your company