Last week, I was featured in a Dutch radio show on BNR about offshore outsourcing. The topic was ‘does offshoring create cost advantages?’, ‘how is the quality of offshore work?’ and ‘the do’s and don’t of offshore outsourcing’. The experts in the …
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A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about oral versus written communication in offshoring. One of my clients pointed me to another interesting question: how to make an offshore programmer enthusiastic about your project, how to motivate him and get …
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The past years, offshoring and nearshoring have become widespread among Western companies. Driven by the lack of skilled (IT) people in Western Europe, the high wages for IT people and the greying population, this industry is predicted to grow substantially …
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I recently heard a great presentation of Amanda Crouch, partner at Global Business Partnership Alliance .She identified 7 steps that lead to real collaboration in an outsourcing relationship. An interesting statistic that underscores the importance of ‘relationships’: 70% of performance/delivery problems have …
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If we look back at the current era in about 15-20 years, will we be talking about a revolution when we talk about offshoring? Could offshoring become so ingrained in the way we do business, that it truly changes the …
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