5 Key Benefits of Hiring Remote Specialists for Your Company

You have a great idea. You have the vision of the impact it will have on the market.  But the cost and the problems associated with creating a data-driven digital product intimidate you. Or maybe you are working on a new and exciting project, with huge implications for your organization. The concept and vision are in place, but it involves development efforts that, if not channeled well, leave your initiative sidelined. 

What is the answer?

Working with the right remote team is the solution and now we’ll tell you why.

This alternative is full of advantages that can transform the way you develop your products and bring them to market. 

Discover the  5  most important benefits of hiring remote developers and turn your idea into a product with results.

Benefit # 1: Clear and unified methodology

Connecting with a remote development team is accessing a knowledge and experience base. A remote team is made up of fast learners who quickly integrate the needs, character, and identity of your organization.  This can take only 1 day and makes the advantages visible in a short period of working together.
Dan Rudigan from Atlassian highlights this key benefit, stating that “distributed [remote] teams can work on projects all day long,” providing companies with the agility needed to thrive in the modern market.

And if you think hiring a remote team means they will be misaligned with your internal team, or that you will have to manage parallel efforts to achieve goals, there are collaborative online platforms like Trello, a platform that allows you to organize your projects as boards with tasks in different phases, and makes it easy for both teams to work towards the same achievements. This allows for a clear and unified methodology. Remote specialists are part of your team.

This method is evolutionary. Internal teams learn from remote specialists and vice versa, creating a valuable knowledge base for your business that grows organically over time.

Benefit # 2: Reduced time to reach results

Developing enterprise, mobile, or cloud applications and products is difficult and has obstacles. Working with remote teams reduces risk because it ensures you have the right members focused on the same goal, without overly distracting your internal team.

The modern remote development landscape is dynamic and evolved. Since contact is in real time, difficulties are resolved immediately. Any bureaucratic limitation that impedes process progress is reduced. In other words, the time it takes to reach your results decreases and improves.

A remote development team is ideal to meet your needs in a variety of projects, from Data Lakes, DataOps, and DevOps work on AWS cloud and modern front-ends, to proprietary Advanced Analytics applications.  

Additionally, you have access to team members with the highest competencies for your needs, obtaining high-level professional benefits in the process.

Benefit # 3: The right skills, at the right time

And how does this benefit manifest in your development and testing process? By significantly reducing the time needed to bring a product to market, and eliminating errors along the way.

Imagine you are creating an application oriented to the analytical power of Big Data and applying this power to your customers' transactions. Developing your application requires a specific skill set that goes beyond the daily operation of your business.

Now imagine you hire new talent and create an internal team to develop your product. When the project concludes, you may not need the talent of your new collaborators for a long time, but they remain on your company’s payroll. You get creative and assign them to other projects although the result is not as expected. Time passes, costs increase, and business efficiency decreases.

A remote and external team, hired short-term, solves the above. It allows you to have the right skills at the precise moment. Integrating experience this way increases your business’s flexibility and agility in the short and long term, leaving it prepared for market challenges.

Remember that it is essential to build the right kind of digital infrastructure to boost this remote innovation. Applications like Slack or Microsoft Teams improve communication between internal and remote teams, eliminating misunderstandings or free interpretations, accelerating the onboarding process. Working with remote teams is an effective way to balance speed, efficiency, and effectiveness. Make sure your business is set up to make the most of these efforts.

Benefit # 4: Save Costs

The best ideas, even those from your internal teams, are not free.

Creating a workspace and developing the idea to a standard ready to go to market costs a lot of money. But where does this cost come from? 

In many cases, some of the resources come from diverting members of other teams to work on the project.

But, what is the alternative? Stop developing your ideas? This can have an even greater cost and cause your business to miss golden opportunities to enter the market. This is one of the reasons that make remote work essential in the field of modern development.

Connecting with a remote development team reduces your costs in the following ways:  

• More robust testing procedures, which reduce the need to redo and redo again: the less time your idea spends in draft, the less costly it will be to bring it to market. With a fresh approach and formidable experience, remote teams reduce errors and speed up the process.
• No need to expand commercial facilities: incorporating new internal teams means expanding your offices, and that costs money. Remote teams collaborate and communicate digitally with your internal team, so there is no need to reinvest in physical space.
• Better time management: businesses lose a lot of money each year due to time lost when employees must physically commute from their homes and return late and tired, commuting to in-person meetings, or waiting in line for lunch or to go to the bank, which could be done during off-peak hours. With remote teams, the above risk is reduced, times are optimized, employees perform better, and most importantly, they are happier.

• Simplified processes through innovation: working with a remote team means working with team members with the necessary skills to innovate in the right solution.  This means a more streamlined and efficient overall process.
• Develop great ideas to the fullest: there is nothing worse than missing a great opportunity. With a remote team, you can explore your ideas thoroughly and make the most of the new concepts and interesting initiatives generated by your internal teams.
  

Benefit # 5: Transformative innovation

Real innovation requires a dual approach: having process excellence both in idea generation and in their final execution.  

Hiring a remote team will allow you to connect even more with the experience that team has in helping clients build digital products and implementing innovative strategies. This could be the ingredient your company needs to transform a great idea or business project into a useful product.

Of course, you should keep long- and short-term goals in mind during this process. It would be better to have scalable solutions that not only work today but also in the future. The right remote teams will be able to offer this at a fraction of the hassle and cost of opting to keep these things ‘in-house’.

The remote market is one you should take advantage of. In 2017, the percentage of workers who spent at least part of their time working from home in the United States was 43%, compared to only 39% in 2012. This means an increasingly large group of agile, flexible, and remote talent willing to work for your organization.

At Kranio we have been building clients’ digital products for years, with successful projects in several countries, from Chile to the United States, from applications to advanced analytics. Remotely.

Ready to boost your team with remote specialists?

At Kranio, we have experts in DataOps, DevOps, and data science who integrate perfectly into your organization, offering efficient technological solutions tailored to your needs. Contact us to find out how we can help you achieve your business goals.

The journey to bring your ideas and projects to market is about to begin.