All professional service firms and consultants have one most imporant asset. This asset is their skills. Skills, like other assets, depreciate over time. Freelancers and single fighters in particular, need to understand this.
I went to CommunicAsia 2009 exhibition in Singapore last week.
It’s my first time visiting such a big event, and it really is inspiring.
As mentioned on our ‘about us’ page, our vision is to become one of the best companies to work for in Indonesia with innovative HR strategies. And to become one of the biggest IT services company in South East Asia.
A friend of mine owns a large textile manufacturing company in Indonesia; more than two years ago he decides to develop an ERP system with a big IT company in Jakarta (let’s call it the Supplier from now on). The cost was US$90k, and was to finish in a year.
Needless to say, we are definitely in a time of crisis.
People spend less, VCs spend less, and thus small businesses are feeling the pinch
We have been approached by potential clients who ask, “How much for this project?”, or, “How long would this take?”
Many times in the past several months, we have to turn down new prospective clients because we dont have enough resources. And after we do have the resources available, most of those clients have found someone else.
Everytime I read books / magazines, I am inspired and motivated. I think that’s what books for anyway. I should’ve written a blog for each book I read, but that wouldnt be appropriate to write in this Ruby on Rails outsourcing blog. I have a personal blog but most posts are written in Indonesian.
I’m too busy. My biggest client has taken too much time out of me, and thus I have less and less time and energy to expand this RoR outsourcing business.
Is indeed difficult.
Our employees are our assets. In fact, human resources are our *only* assets.
