Selecting a partner offshore or nearshore can be a daunting job. Companies are far away, the cultural habits are different. Nevertheless, I believe that below guidelines and questions can help you in the quest. 1. Start with asking yourself why …
Today on Bridge Blog we are featuring an interview with Minna Salminen Karlsson. Minna Salminen Karlsson, a Swedish researcher who has done a research on the”soft” issues in advanced ICT offshoring from Sweden to India. Her project is called ‘OFFSWING’. …
Organisations are traditionally: a place where people gather to work on something they are specialized in to create a certain service or product. Last century this place was often a factory and in the second half of the century, we …
Avi Elkoni wrote an article for our blog about the 5 lethal mistakes in offshore software development. The first lethal mistake is downplaying cultural differences. I absolutely agree that culture has a big impact on globally distributed software projects. I …
As I’m sure you’ve heard, there are far-away lands where the best and brightest youths flock to science and technology schools. They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. Why not put them to …
Business needs for improvement projects are changing. Organizations expect faster results from their investments; they want their improvement projects to adapt to and follow changing business needs and be more engrained with the organizational way of working. The agile way …
The Hackett Group published an interesting research about the future of offshoring. They did the research among 4700 companies with $1 billion in turnover or more. The researchers predict that by 2016, 2.3 million jobs will have been moved offshore …
Last week, I gave a presentation at the Technical University in Delft and one of my topics was ’empathy’. I always get some questioning faces when I present a slide with a definition of empathy on it. Normally, technologists get taught about …
Looking and choosing the right business process outsourcing companies should not be taken lightly if you want to ensure on time project delivery with the highest quality of work. Selecting a BPO provider must be prioritized first before choosing the …
I recently published an article on the famous Dutch IT magazine ‘Computable‘. In response to this article, I received some questions from Reza Sarshar of interaccess. The questions are interesting and I want to address all of them in this article. 1. What …
Managing global teams requires a solid structure and the right (software) tools. I often get the question of what tools we use in our company. I am always surprised when I show someone our project management tool, what impression it makes on …
The IT talent pool available in India is highly skilled. These educated IT professionals are good English speakers. They should always try to go that extra mile in cross-cultural communication to understand customer’s needs when working on an IT offshore …