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How do you prepare for offshoring?Hoe bereidt u zich voor op offshoring?How do you prepare for offshoring?How do you prepare for offshoring?

26 October 2010 Offshoring

If you have recently wondered if offshoring could work for you or if you have even already started offshoring some of your works, you may have asked yourself ‘what should I do to prepare’? Or you might have acted like …

The newly launched Talk About IT platform – a great success in The Netherlands!Het nieuw gelanceerde Talk About IT platform – een groot success in Nederland! The newly launched Talk About IT platform – a great success in The Netherlands!The newly launched Talk About IT platform – a great success in The Netherlands!

Since September this year Bridge has started a new platform for opening dialogue about noteworthy IT news and development. This ‘Talk About IT’ platform consists of two-monthly real life events where interesting experienced speakers present their views about the latest …

Offshoring: should governments embrace or fight it?Offshoring: moeten overheden er voor gaan of er tegen vechten?Offshoring: should governments embrace or fight it?Offshoring: should governments embrace or fight it?

14 October 2010 Offshoring

Every time a big company announces to open an offshore/nearshore center or fire people, the media and many other people protest. HP announced 2 things at the same time: they will fire 1300 people in the UK + they open …

Building a dedicated team: what can it bring to me?Een toegewijd team creëren: wat levert mij dat op?Building a dedicated team: what can it bring to me?Building a dedicated team: what can it bring to me?

27 September 2010 Offshoring

There are many reasons why companies from Europe or the United States outsource work to India or Eastern Europe. The most frequently heard driver for offshoring are obviously ‘costs’. In this post, I want to describe a case of one …

Why life cycle demands professional programmers instead of students

Anyone attempting to setup a startup will be confronted with the problem of gathering sufficient capital to turn an idea into a sellable product. Once investors enter the startup they will demand a considerable chunk of the business in order …

We have a process, don’t we? We hebben een proces, toch?We have a process, don’t we? We have a process, don’t we?

22 September 2010 Offshoring

In the past years, I have been learning the hard way how important processes are as a basis for a company to grow. As an entrepreneur or manager, you set out to establish something, to work towards that point on …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Saandhwanam – A small gesture for a better tomorrowSaandhwanam – Een klein gebaar voor een betere toekomst Saandhwanam – A small gesture for a better tomorrowSaandhwanam – A small gesture for a better tomorrow

27 August 2010 Bridge news

Santhwanam Orphange houses around 35 children, right from infants to teenagers. The kids, most of whom where found abandoned on the streets, fighting hunger are given a safe abode here. As the orphange is situated in an interior village, they …

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 …

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 …