Category Archives: Outsourcing

Regarding our outsourcing group.

A short tale about Moldova & Bridge

16 December 2009 Bridge news

At the beginning of this article I would like to introduce a small country Moldova, located in Eastern Europe between Ukraine and Romania. From 1940-1991 – Moldova was a part of exUSSR. In 1970 – Moldova has received significant allocation from …

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How flexible is your organization?

10 December 2009 Offshoring

In the Dutch magazine ‘ondernemen’ I read the following facts from a research conducted by ‘TNO Arbeid’: –          In 2008 and 2009, 1 out of 5 SME’s in Holland has fired people –          Half of SME’s plan to grow the …

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The differences between Indian and Dutch designers.

Willem Woudenberg (Edenspiekermann) and Frits Lintmeijer organised an intercultural workshop for Indian and Dutch professionals at this year’s Design Yatra in Mumbai. Masculinity, group work and uncertainty avoidance Text by DutchDFA “Indian designers take time to argue all the ins and …

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Is the world that flat?

24 November 2009 Outsourcing

Here I am, a typical Dutch guy, working in our office in India. Where our Indian programmers are working with customers in Holland, Germany and Sweden. Where a designer from our office in Odessa (Ukraine) provides me with a design …

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Is ‘open’ the new organizational principle?

20 November 2009 Outsourcing

The past months I have intensely observed the ‘open’ movement in various forms. At Bridge we do a lot with open source. We organize open coffee. And we are an open company with open people.  I wonder whether in the …

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