Category Archives: Offshoring

The ABC of a successful offshoringHet ABC van een succesvolle offshoringABC till framgångsrik offshoringThe ABC of a successful offshoring

The demand for offshoring is a keeper despite of the increasing costs (labour) in the supplier region. In our conversations with the product managers (manufacturing) and IT managers revealed that they are still planning and looking at the opportunities for …

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Is it necessary to move work to low-wage countries?Is het noodzakelijk om werk naar lage lonen landen te verplaatsen?Är det nödvändigt att flytta arbetskraft till lågavlönade länder? Ist es notwendig Arbeit an Niedriglohnländer zu verlagern?

A journalist from Computable, asked me to give a reaction to this very interesting theorem: ‘Only by moving as much as possible work to low-income countries like India, Dutch ICT-businesses can keep their head above the water.’ Do you agree …

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Are You Taking Advantage of Outsourcing? Haalt u uw voordeel uit outsourcing?Drar du nytta avoutsourcing?Nutzen sie die Vorteile von Outsourcing?

I had the opportunity of addressing a room filled with owners of small, medium sized and large businesses and asked them this question “Are you taking advantage of outsourcing?”  I could hear the crickets chirping as they all stared back …

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Agile Retrospectives, an Effective Tool for Continuous Improvement

Most teams that are doing agile development and are using Scrum have heard about agile retrospectives. Often they also start doing retrospectives after one or more sprints. Some teams keep on doing them, but I’ve heard a lot of teams …

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An entrepreneurial lesson in offshoringEenondernemende les in offshoringEn entreprenörslektion i offshoringEine unternehmerische Lektion im Offshoring

In my previous article I described some lessons learned on failures that I made in building my Global IT Staffing company Bridge. I have few more important lessons that are more on the entrepreneurial side than on the offshore management …

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