Understanding Insourcing: Benefits and Key Considerations

Insourcing is the practice of assigning an internal person or department to manage a project rather than an outside party. In short, insourcing is the direct opposite of outsourcing. 

For example, a company may be trying to lead a project. To ensure that the project is led to their standards and processes, they choose to source for it internally. 

This way, the business retains full control over how the project is handled.  

While there may be a host of benefits when it comes to insourcing, we’ll focus on the top four that drive results for businesses:

A business that decides to go for insourcing instead of outsourcing has better cost efficiency over its expenses. That’s because they choose to eliminate external factors from the process and recruit individuals and/or teams in-house for the duration of the project. 

Insourcing involves individuals driving projects on-site. The fact that the team is on-site provides many benefits, one of them being enhanced communication and collaboration. 

Not only is the entire team on-site and they can communicate more easily, but they are also in proximity to other teams within the organisation. This has the additional benefit of enabling easier cross-team communication. 

Outsourcing often involves providing external parties with sensitive company data. This can potentially result in a data breach, because you don’t know the working process of the external contracts (and can’t necessarily control it). 

Insourcing allows you to provide internal teams with the tools and processes required to accomplish their work. This way, you keep all the sensitive data and information on the internal servers of your organisation and mitigate any risk of data breaches. 

Insourcing allows businesses to respond to fast market changes. The ability to insource provides businesses with the ability to allocate their resources more dynamically and respond to challenges and market changes in a fast and efficient way. 

When you want to implement insourcing in your company, you need to pay attention to the following aspects: 

The transition from outsourcing to insourcing is especially important. To smoothly transition, you should prepare your employees with additional training so they can cover a part of the skill gap while you establish the insourcing process. And, make sure that you communicate everything beforehand so that all stakeholders are informed about the decision.

The major difference between insourcing and outsourcing is the people you trust to get the work done. For insourcing, that involves people already in your organisation – for outsourcing, it’s the opposite. The key here is internal versus external help. 

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By keeping all of your important HR processes in-house, you maintain full control and oversight over them. While this may not always be possible – think payroll or other cumbersome and time-consuming tasks – it certainly helps. 

Bringing your HR processes internal can help: 

• Build employee trust 

• Maintain your own expertise 

• Create more tailored programmes to your organisation 

HR work requires a lot of training and knowledge. If you move those development resources to train professionals in-house, you can reap the benefits of that knowledge in the long term. 

Personio is an all-in-one HR software solution that can help upgrade your people operations for now and the future. By bringing all of your processes into one place, internally, you can run your organisation from a true position of strength. 

Ultimately, this opens up time for what matters: your people. Trust Personio like 10,000 other companies have to automate your HR processes, gain time back and help boost your bottom line. Speak with an expert today for a quick demo. 

Here are the four of the most frequently asked questions about insourcing: 

You’re looking to expand your market from a dominantly English-speaking language to a Spanish-speaking one. So you build a team of people who are proficient in the Spanish language who are already employed so they can start writing articles in the Spanish language for the market. 

Yes, switching between insourcing and outsourcing can even be done on a project-by-project basis. It is important to know when is the best time to employ insourcing and when you may need external expertise and help. 

That depends on the size, scale and industry of your business. It can range from three months to a year and a half.