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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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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After it came to my attention that a lot of people use Twitter primarily to tweet about, let’s be honest, relatively unimportant and even boring daily activities, I started to ask myself what people found to be worthy of sharing …