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.

Is it necessary to move work to low-wage countries?Is het noodzakelijk om werk naar lage lonen landen te verplaatsen?Är det nödvändigt att flytta arbetskraft till lågavlönade länder? Ist es notwendig Arbeit an Niedriglohnländer zu verlagern?

7 May 2013 Offshoring

A journalist from Computable, asked me to give a reaction to this very interesting theorem: ‘Only by moving as much as possible work to low-income countries like India, Dutch ICT-businesses can keep their head above the water.’ Do you agree …

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Some thoughts on happiness in businessEnkele gedachtes over geluk in het bedrijfslevenNågra tankar om lycka i affärerEinige Gedanken zum Thema Glück im Geschäft

16 April 2013 Business

I have just finished reading the book about Zappos ‘delivering happiness‘. I love the story and ideas in it and I am exploring how it applies to our company. My general view on the business world is that most is …

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An entrepreneurial lesson in offshoringEenondernemende les in offshoringEn entreprenörslektion i offshoringEine unternehmerische Lektion im Offshoring

26 March 2013 Offshoring

In my previous article I described some lessons learned on failures that I made in building my Global IT Staffing company Bridge. I have few more important lessons that are more on the entrepreneurial side than on the offshore management …

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What did I learn building an offshore and nearshore team?Wat heb ik geleerd door een offshore en nearshore team op te zetten?Vad lärde jag mig av att bygga upp ett offshore- och nearshore-team?Was hab ich beim Aufbau eines Offshore und Nearshore Teams gelernt?

12 March 2013 Nearshoring

A few weeks back I wrote an article about What makes global teamwork, offshoring, nearshoring and remote cooperations so interesting. I have a critical father in law who told me that I described some pitfalls that I walked into and asked …

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Quality versus speedKwaliteit versus snelheidKvalitet kontra snabbhetQualität versus Geschwindigkeit

20 February 2013 Offshoring

One of the mindset differences that often lead to issues in cooperations across cultures is quality versus speed. I believe this is a cultural difference that needs to receive attention in any offshore collaboration. It can result both from a …

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