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Yesterday, I visited a seminar in Amsterdam about offshoring and afterwards had a long discussion with a project manager from Accenture. The main message of the day for me was that if you want to work with people on a distance\u00a0successfully, you need to create co-workers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nInnovites\u00a0<\/a>is a small Dutch company with 3 people in the Netherlands and 5 in India.\u00a0<\/strong>Albert Groothedde<\/a>, CEO of Innovites\u00a0shared some best practices on the seminar. His key advice:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Innovites\u00a0<\/a>is een klein Nederlands bedrijf met 3 mensen in Nederland en 5 in India.\u00a0Albert Groothedde<\/a>, CEO van Innovites deelde zijn ervaringen tijdens het congres. Zijn voornaamste advies:<\/strong><\/p>\n Innovites<\/a>\u00a0\u00e4r ett litet holl\u00e4ndskt f\u00f6retag med tre anst\u00e4llda i Nederl\u00e4nderna och fem i Indien.\u00a0Albert Groothedde<\/a>, VD:n p\u00e5 Innovites delade med sig av n\u00e5gra av de b\u00e4sta metoderna p\u00e5 seminariet. H\u00e4r \u00e4r hans fr\u00e4msta r\u00e5d: \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Innovites<\/a>\u00a0ist ein kleines holl\u00e4ndisches Unternehmen mit drei Personen in den Niederlanden und f\u00fcnf Personen in Indien. Albert Groothedde, der CEO von Innovites teilte sein Erfolgsrezept mit den Seminarteilnehmern. Sein haupts\u00e4chlicher Rat:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Ensure that you work with a partner that is good at search and selection<\/p>\n 2. Make sure that you get the right people in your team<\/p>\n 3. Engage a partner that can organize everything offshore and is able to bridge the cultural gap<\/p>\n 4. Integrate the offshore people in your organisation<\/p>\n He stated that according to his experience a client-supplier relation doesn’t work. The important thing is to make it a ‘cooperation’ in which the global team members operate in the same team, according to the same values and become an integral part of your organisation. The interesting part of his story is that offshoring worked so well for them, that they even started selling their niche product on the Indian market.<\/p>\n With\u00a0Jeroen Tiekstra<\/a>\u00a0I discussed the way Accenture works with their Indian people. Jeroen is very positive about his cooperation with his Indian colleagues. For each project, he can send their Indian office profiles of the people they need. The Indian HR department will propose team members and Jeroen eventually picks them. During the projects, he has a permanent connection to his colleagues in Bangalore and they visit back and forth regularly. There are daily meetings to discuss progress in the team and bi-weekly meeting with the customer in the Netherlands to deliver iterations and report on project status.<\/p>\n An interesting part of\u00a0Accenture’s\u00a0method is that the team members (both on and offshore) have personal development plans. At the beginning of each project, each person indicates what his personal goals (what he will add extra on top of the basic technical requirements) are for the project. All colleagues as well as the customer gives regular feedback on the achievement of these goals. This way, people are dedicated to making their goals and receive 360 degree feedback on their progress and achievements.<\/p>\n The past years, people have experimented with different models for managing people across the globe. The above cases both show that a very crucial ingredient is to integrate anyone who’s working in your organisation anywhere on the globe, into your organisation. To treat people far away similar to people in your office, to apply the same management practices, feedback systems, personal development methods and the same logic for setting goals and priorities. Once the right management methods and processes are in place, it becomes easier to integrate people on different locations into your value creating activities.<\/p>\n If you are interested to learn more about global IT staffing, Hugo recommends you to visit\u00a0www.bridge-global.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a>Gisteren bezocht ik een congres over offshoring en achteraf had ik een lang gesprek met een projectmanager van Accenture. Wat mij voornamelijk is bijgebleven van dit gesprek is dat als je op afstand met mensen wil werken, je medewerkers zult moeten cre\u00ebren.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/a>Ig\u00e5r var jag p\u00e5 ett seminarium i Amsterdam om offshoring och efter\u00e5t hade jag en l\u00e5ng diskussion med en projektledare fr\u00e5n Accenture. Det viktigaste budskapen f\u00f6r dagen f\u00f6r mig var att om du vill arbeta med folk p\u00e5 distans, och g\u00f6ra det framg\u00e5ngsrikt, m\u00e5ste du g\u00f6ra dem till dina medarbetare.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Gestern habe ich ein Seminar \u00fcber Offshoring in Amsterdam besucht und hatte danach eine lange Diskussion mit einem Projektmanager von Accenture. Die Quintessenz dieses Tages f\u00fcr mich war, dass wenn man mit Personen \u00fcber eine Distanz erfolgreich arbeiten will, muss man kollegiale Beziehungen erschaffen.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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