Category Archives: Offshoring

The Swedish IT marketDe Zweedse IT marktThe Swedish IT marketThe Swedish IT market

16 September 2010 Offshoring

I have visited Stockholm this week to visit a few of our Swedish customers and to speak to some prospective customers. My general conclusion is that offshoring is even more important for the future of the Swedish IT industry than …

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Offshore project management: how to manage your projectsOffshore project management: hoe uw projecten te managenOffshore project management: how to manage your projectsOffshore project management: how to manage your projects

3 September 2010 Offshoring

For years I have been trying to find the crucial aspects in offshore project management. Both in managing our own projects (during the period we also did fixed price projects for our customers) and in observing how our customers are …

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What is more important: People or Process?

31 August 2010 Offshoring

At Bridge, we have recently summarized the key success factors in offshoring into 5 P’s: People, Process, Preparation, Performance, and Profit. Now I am always struggling to put either People or Process on the first place. Because without the right …

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People are stealing ‘our’ jobs?Mensen die ‘onze’ banen stelen? People are stealing ‘our’ jobs?People are stealing ‘our’ jobs?

25 August 2010 Offshoring

When I talk to people about offshoring, I often get the remark that offshoring destroys jobs in our country and foreigners steal ´our´ jobs. Often, the media write the same line of thought and people who react on articles feel …

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The end of outsourcing?!

19 August 2010 Offshoring

Sometimes I feel very lonely in my vision on the future of outsourcing. Maybe the problem lies in the generic usage of the term ‘outsourcing’, but this week A.T. Kerney published an article with the title ‘the end of outsourcing …

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