Tips for Making a Build vs. Buy Decision Through the course of this series of articles, you’ve seen how important it is to make an informed decision when choosing whether to build a software solution from scratch, buy a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution, or go with a hybrid approach of buying and customizing a…
Build vs. Buy vs. Hybrid: Decision Criteria If you’ve read this far in this series, you know the significant advantages and disadvantages of the three approaches to implementing a digital solution, that is, Building custom software Buying commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software The hybrid approach of buying COTS software and customizing it Is there a simple…
The Best of Both Worlds: Pros and Cons of Hybrid Build–Buy What if “build vs. buy” wasn’t an either–or proposition? Is there another path that realizes the benefits of each approach while minimizing the risks of both? Indeed, there is. We call it the hybrid approach. There are two main ways to implement it: Buy…