Last week I came accross a book called ‘creative capitalism‘, which is based on a speech delivered by Bill Gates in Davos a few years ago. Bill Gates advocates an alternative form of capitalism in which companies do ‘good’ and …
Price Waterhouse Coopers published a research they did among 1200 CEO’s around the world. The research is called ‘Growth reimagined’ and is available here: http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/ceo-survey/index.jhtml. The research shows that most CEO’s expect the economy and their company to grow within the next …
There are many guides on the internet telling you how to perfect your cool web design skills. Some will tell you that you need to take a course that will give you the required skills, and others say that practice …
A few weeks ago I spoke to Tom van Lamoen, operational manager at Estate, one of our customers. He has worked with teams in India and Eastern Europe in the past years and he mentioned that one of his greatest obstacles was …
Outsourcing work to third party service providers is the need of virtually every business establishment around the world. Practically all big and small enterprises are now resorting to it. This helps companies focus on their main objectives. However, corporations that …
The past few months, we have been working hard to establish a development team for NEO 7even from Germany. The first members have started in the beginning of November and only three weeks later we got the great news that they …
One of the most frequently cited causes of problems in (offshore) outsourcing is ‘communication problems’. When I hear people mention this, I always wonder what they mean by ‘communication’. Because the term itself is very broad and vague, I believe …
Prejudices and perceptions are bad directions For most companies outsourcing is a logical and strategic choice. The choice of where to consequently place the work is not so simple. A common perception is that India is suitable for quantity and …
Lately, website usability is the favorite subject for a lot of people to talk. It is very popular word especially if you work in IT sphere. Usability, user-friendly – it is a kind of mantra for project-managers, designers and developers. …
A few weeks ago I went to Bangalore for the first time with some of my colleagues from Bridge India to attend a social media event. Last week I went once more to attend management training. Visiting the biggest IT center …
Bridge Outsourcing, specialist with regard to software development and offshore outsourcing, has been given the task to set up a .Net-team in Moldova which focuses on the development of software for web projects. Estate is a full service internet agency …
Last week I was giving a presentation at the Rajagiri School of Management in Cochin, India for a group of 150 MBA students. The two central themes were Outsourcing and Entrepreneurship. One of the questions that came up was ‘What …