Category Archives: Offshoring

A study about Offshoring IT services from Sweden to IndiaEen overzicht van Offshoring IT diensten van Zweden naar IndiaEn studie om offshoring av IT-tjänster från Sverige till IndienEine Studie über Offshoring IT- Dienstleistungen von Schweden nach Indien

1 August 2012 Cultural Differences

Today on Bridge Blog we are featuring an interview with Minna Salminen Karlsson. Minna Salminen Karlsson, a Swedish researcher who has done a research on the”soft” issues in advanced ICT offshoring from Sweden to India. Her project is called ‘OFFSWING’. …

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Conservatism and the benefits of a global workforceConservatisme en de voordelen van een wereldwijd personeelsbestandKonservatism och fördelarna med en global arbetsstyrkaKonservatismus und die Vorteile von einer weltweiten Belegschaft

1 August 2012 Cultural Differences

Organisations are traditionally: a place where people gather to work on something they are specialized in to create a certain service or product. Last century this place was often a factory and in the second half of the century, we …

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Five lethal mistakes in offshore software developmentVijf grote fouten in offshore softwareontwikkeling Fem farliga misstag med offshorad mjukvaruutvecklingFünf tödliche Fehler bei der Offshore-Softwareentwicklung

27 June 2012 Communication

As I’m sure you’ve heard, there are far-away lands where the best and brightest youths flock to science and technology schools. They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. Why not put them to …

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How far can offshoring go? Hoe ver kan offshoring gaan?Hur långt kan offshoring gå?Wie weit kann Offshoring gehen?

11 June 2012 Offshoring

The Hackett Group published an interesting research about the future of offshoring. They did the research among 4700 companies with $1 billion in turnover or more. The researchers predict that by 2016, 2.3 million jobs will have been moved offshore …

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What is the role of empathy in an offshoring context?Wat voor rol speelt empathie in een offshoring context?Vad spelar empati för roll i ett offshoringsammanhang?Was ist die Rolle von Empathie in einem Offshoring-Kontext?

11 June 2012 Communication

Last week, I gave a presentation at the Technical University in Delft and one of my topics was ’empathy’. I always get some questioning faces when I present a slide with a definition of empathy on it. Normally, technologists get taught about …

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