Author Archives: Hugo Messer

About Hugo Messer

Hugo Messer is a Dutch entrepreneur, distributed agile team specialist, and author. He is the founder and owner of Bridge Global, a software services provider, and ekipa.co., an agile coaching agency. He has been building and managing teams around the world for the past several years. His passion is to enable people that are spread across cultures, geography and time zones to cooperate. Whether it’s offshoring or nearshoring, he knows what it takes to make global cooperation work.

How do I know if I am ready for offshoring or nearshoring?

Offshoring and nearshoring are becoming increasingly popular. Articles are published about new offshoring decisions made by multinationals almost every day. And with the eternal struggle to find talent and lower costs, the importance of involving people from offshore or nearshore …

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How can offshoring impact poverty?Hoe kan offshoring impact hebben op armoede?Hur kan offshoring påverka fattigdom? Wie kann Offshoring Armut verringern?

8 February 2011 Offshoring

Last week I came accross a book called ‘creative capitalism‘, which is based on a speech delivered by Bill Gates in Davos a few years ago. Bill Gates advocates an alternative form of capitalism in which companies do ‘good’ and …

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Insights on globalization from 1200 top CEO’sInzichten in globalisatie van 1200 top CEO’sÅsikter om globalisering från 1200 topp VD:arEinblicke in die Globalisierung von 1200 top CEO’s

3 February 2011 Outsourcing

Price Waterhouse Coopers published a research they did among 1200 CEO’s around the world. The research is called ‘Growth reimagined’ and is available here: http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/ceo-survey/index.jhtml. The research shows that most CEO’s expect the economy and their company to grow within the next …

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How to manage expectations across borders and cultures?Hoe verwachtingen van verschillende culturen te managen?How to manage expectations across borders and cultures?Wie verwaltet man Erwartungen über Grenzen und Kulturen hinaus?

25 January 2011 Offshoring

A few weeks ago I spoke to Tom van Lamoen, operational manager at Estate, one of our customers. He has worked with teams in India and Eastern Europe in the past years and he mentioned that one of his greatest obstacles was …

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Indian team to support award winning product NEOzenzai® from GermanyIndiaas team ondersteunt prijswinnend product NEOzenzai® uit DuitslandIndian team to support award winning product NEOzenzai® from GermanyEin indisches Team um das preisgekrönte Produkt NEOzenzai aus Deutschland zu unterstützen

10 January 2011 Bridge news

The past few months, we have been working hard to establish a development team for NEO 7even from Germany. The first members have started in the beginning of November and only three weeks later we got the great news that they …

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