Entity management – especially these days – isn't what one might call an "easy lift." Successfully managing the multitude of responsibilities and obligations that an organization has for its legal entities with regard to the owners, government regulations, and other stakeholders is critical to a business's long-term health. To do it correctly requires comprehensive knowledge spanning such robust and varied areas of expertise as cultural customs, variations in jurisdictional rules and parameters, and different business practices – a challenge that is only exacerbated as a business continues to grow in scale and size.

And while onboarding technology solutions to help automate process-centric tasks or engaging the services of an outsourced provider who can blend the trappings of tech with domain expertise can certainly lighten the load, it isn't always abundantly clear which approach best suits a given organization. Here are some things to consider when building a strategic approach to entity management.