Increase Productivity, Lower Costs and Eliminate Frustration
The Case for Blended Teams
Using U.S.-based and LatAm-located digital product development experts allows for better cultural alignment and understanding of U.S. consumer culture and common business practices. Offshore outsourcing can be appealing for its affordability, but there can be inherent risks sending your data, information and critical product work half a world away. Sparq blends the best of both worlds by assembling onshore/nearshore teams to help manage risk, improve outcomes and control costs.
Our digital product development experts understand U.S. consumer culture, user experience and common business practices. This means less time needed for understanding and defining business requirements, and less frustration for you.
Working with teams in a similar time zone ensures seamless communication and faster response times, making true idea exchange and real-time collaboration possible. This is critical for modern software product development.
Using a blend of U.S.-based and nearshore experts provides the advantages of clear communication, cultural affinity, the ability to quickly scale and cost effectiveness.
How We’re Different
Our product-minded approach, technical expertise, delivery discipline, and blended delivery model makes working with Sparq a better experience, with better outcomes.
Sparq is scaled for modern product development processes and delivery infrastructure, but we stay nimble and flexible enough to respond to each of our clients’ unique needs. We follow a product-minded, outcome-oriented approach; giving teams the freedom and responsibility to devise strategies that result in the best product for our clients.
Our blended onshore/nearshore model provides the immediacy of localized teams when necessary, better cultural and business context, a broader pool of talent to draw from, and with the financial advantages of lower cost locations. This unique model drives productivity, increases efficiency and lowers costs. And ultimately provides a better client engagement experience.
We use leading tools, methods and accelerators for driving speed and quality, while focusing on successful outcomes. We’re technology neutral with breadth & depth across cloud providers, front-end & back-end languages and data tools.
We follow a mature, enterprise-class team-based account management process and playbook, and execute with discipline and rigor. This ensures agility, alignment and flexibility from engagement kick-off to weekly huddles to QBRs and engagement closeouts.
Through its Engineering Unleashed online platform, The Kern Family Foundation works to instill a entrepreneurial mindset in undergraduate engineering students across the country. We helped make needed improvements in search functionality, email marketing, content creation and overall user experience that helped to broaden use of the platform.
A leading international rental car company recognized that its manual process and paper contracts were resulting in wait times of 20 minutes, rising data entry errors and declining customer satisfaction scores. We helped design and develop a fast and lightweight application that used the minimal data needed to reduce network traffic to reduce page and data load times. The application was deployed on tablets, mobile devices and desktops and incorporated a paperless contract for better user experience.
- 75% decrease in the check-in and check-out time
- 20% improvement in their customer satisfaction score
- Overall increase in employee morale
A leading provider of industrial services worldwide needed to fill a critical labor law compliance gap with their HR payroll processing. We created a highly usable and efficient platform to track the massive amounts of data for its 15,000+ American employees. In just 9 months, the company reached regulatory compliance.
New software responsibilities with high costs, a large user base, and unreliable resources brought unexpected challenges. They were directed to reduce headcount by 5%, so they needed an outsourcing partner to increase client satisfaction as well as lower overall costs.
- An overall cost savings of over 40%
- Increased productivity by 25%
- Lowered fee structure by 20%
- Created a reliable project estimation tool for better project accountability and cost-allocations back to the business
