For years I have been trying to find the crucial aspects in offshore project management. Both in managing our own projects (during the period we also did fixed price projects for our customers) and in observing how our customers are …
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At Bridge, we have recently summarized the key success factors in offshoring into 5 P’s: People, Process, Preparation, Performance, and Profit. Now I am always struggling to put either People or Process on the first place. Because without the right …
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When I talk to people about offshoring, I often get the remark that offshoring destroys jobs in our country and foreigners steal ´our´ jobs. Often, the media write the same line of thought and people who react on articles feel …
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Sometimes I feel very lonely in my vision on the future of outsourcing. Maybe the problem lies in the generic usage of the term ‘outsourcing’, but this week A.T. Kerney published an article with the title ‘the end of outsourcing …
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I just read an article on a famous Dutch IT news site (webwereld) about Indians not being able to say ‘no’. The article was based on an interview with another Dutch firm with an office in India. What strikes me …
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