Does offshoring success depend on the ‘shore’ or the people?Hangt het success van offshoring af van de ‘shore’ of van de mensen?Does offshoring success depend on the ‘shore’ or the people?Hängt der Erfolg von Offshoring von dem “Shore” oder von den Leuten ab??
A friend sent me this Dilbert illustration; I had to study it several times to conclude what’s the main message to me. You could interpret it in many ways; for me it drives home one thing: the success of offshoring depends on people, not on ‘bestshore, nearshore, rightshore, offshore or farshore’. The offshoring industry has come up with many confusing definitions to describe a simple thing: hiring people from another country to do a project or (parts of) a process. (For an interesting thought article on terminology, read this article of Gavin Bowden-Hall).
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