Category Archives: Offshoring

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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Indians can’t say no, fact or fiction?

16 August 2010 Offshoring

I just read an article on a famous Dutch IT news site (webwereld)  about Indians not being able to say ‘no’. The article was based on an interview with another Dutch firm with an office in India. What strikes me …

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The 5 key success factors in offshore software development

If you have considered outsourcing or offshoring software development recently, you may have thought about the key success factors to ‘make it work’. In the past years, I have gained substantial experience in how to (and how not to) manage …

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