This project is strategically critical, but it requires key skill sets and technical knowledge we don't have. Who can we turn to?
	Our next project requires two developers, a project manager and a test engineer for six months. We can't spend days talking to every vendor, our budget is tight and we needed these resources here yesterday. How do we get the best available team at competitive rates?
	Our larger competitors are using off-shore development resources to improve costs. Is our company too small to pursue an off-shore strategy? How would we start?
	It's the same story every time we need a full-time developer: we have a stack of resumes to review, yet we know that most of the candidates will not be technically qualified (or even worse, they won't fit into the culture of our team). Is there a better way?
	If you are responsible for managing an IT organization, chances are you've heard similar questions. These are the same kinds of challenges and obstacles we faced as senior IT executives navigating multiple business demands, ever increasing project complexity, and IT organizations stretched to their productive limits. Here is the reality: Being responsive to your peers on the business side does not mean that your internal team must be sized for peak demand. The fact that your core team is heavy on COBOL and DB2 does not mean you can't commit to delivering that high priority project requested by Sales that requires C# .Net and SQL Server. And even if you run a small five-person team and no one in your organization has ever travelled outside the country, let alone the western hemisphere, you can still derive substantial synergies from programmers sitting in Bangalore (or Ottawa for that matter). The fact is that any IT organization, regardless of its size or technical sophistication, can drive superior results by applying leverage in a way that supports its particular operating model. The team at Holland Square Group has had first-hand experience in meeting challenges like the ones you face in your business, and we can assist you in devising a solution that fits your organization.