Asia

September 23, 2026 | 18 min

Eleven Questions Before You Subcontract: Vetting a Local IT Delivery Partner in Asia

Written for the service-delivery director at an MSP, systems integrator or consultancy who has already sold work in a country they do not staff. Eleven questions that separate a local delivery partner who can hold your SLA from one who will quote it back to you — coverage versus reach, delivery pattern, language, lead time, tooling and documentation ownership, escalation, unit economics, liability, white-label position, exit, and the one nobody asks: what happens when their engineer resigns mid-contract.

September 11, 2026 | 19 min

Whose Direct Footprint Matches Your Office Map? IT Support for US Companies in Asia

A composite scenario: a US industrial-software company with Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai offices collects three US MSP quotes within fifteen percent of each other and cannot tell them apart. Why 'global coverage' is unevaluable until it is broken into tiers, and the five questions that separate the proposals.