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 we solve communication problems in (offshore) outsourcing?Hoe lossen we communicatieproblemen in (offshore) outsourcing op?How do we solve communication problems in (offshore) outsourcing?Wie lösen wir Probleme beim (Offshore) Outsourcing?

21 December 2010 Cultural Differences

One of the most frequently cited causes of problems  in (offshore) outsourcing is ‘communication problems’. When I hear people mention this, I always wonder what they mean by ‘communication’.  Because the term itself is very broad and vague, I believe …

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Bangalore: silicon (v)alley?

9 December 2010 Bridge news

A few weeks ago I went to Bangalore for the first time with some of my colleagues from Bridge India to attend a social media event. Last week I went once more to attend management training. Visiting the biggest IT center …

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What are the cultural differences between India and Europe?

17 November 2010 Outsourcing

Last week I was giving a presentation at the Rajagiri School of Management in Cochin, India for a group of 150 MBA students. The two central themes were Outsourcing and Entrepreneurship. One of the questions that came up was ‘What …

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Sigmax: business & charitySigmax: handel & liefdadigheidSigmax: business & charitySigmax: business & charity

11 November 2010 Bridge news

In the beginning of this year, Bridge launched ‘Bridge Club’: a corporate loyalty program for our customers. Last month, Sigmax became our first Silver Bridge Club member. The central idea of our program is to strengthen our relationship with our …

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Where do we get workers if all are grey?Waar halen we werknemers vandaan in een tijd van vergrijzing?Where do we get workers if all are grey?Where do we get workers if all are grey?

4 November 2010 Offshoring

About 30-40 years ago, some entrepreneurs came up with ways to make the labor markets in Europe more flexible. Because labor laws in most European countries are very strict, it’s hard for companies to fire people. To solve that problem, …

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