Category Archives: Offshoring

Nearshoring or offshoring: which works better? Nearshoring of offshoring: wat werkt beter?Nearshoring eller offshoring: vilket fungerar bäst?Nearshoring oder Offshoring: Welche Alternative ist die Bessere?

22 December 2011 Offshoring

A question that I often hear is whether offshoring is better than nearshoring or vice versa. First, let’s get straight on the difference. Nearshoring is when you move work to a country that is nearby your own country. Wikipedia speaks about a …

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The Key Steps to Process OutsourcingDe Belangrijkste Stappen Bij Proces OutsourcingDe nödvändiga stegen för att lyckas med outsourcing av processerEntscheidene Schritte zum Prozessoutsourcing

19 December 2011 Offshoring

When it comes to service or process outsourcing based on the requirements of your company, most expert business advisors would suggest that the best way of doing this is to set a bidding process for various BPO providers. Naturally, the …

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Dutch government: offshoring is no ground for collective firingDutch government: offshoring is no ground for collective firingHolländska regeringen: Offshoring är ingen giltig grund för kollektiv uppsägningNiederländische Regierung: Offshoring ist keine Begründung für kollektive Entlassungen

14 December 2011 Offshoring

The Dutch political party PvdA (Labor Party) will propose a bill to ban collective firing on the grounds of offshoring. The party declared so on its blog. I think that this way of thinking does not fit with our day and …

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The Rise of Financial Management as a Strategic ToolDe Opkomst van Financieel Management als een Strategische ToolFramväxten av ekonomistyrning som ett strategiskt verktyg Der Einsatz des Finanzmanagements als strategisches Werkzeug

12 December 2011 Offshoring

Thanks in part to several key mega-trends in business thinking over the last 30+ years, senior business and technology executives face a fairly generic list of tasks today. They are working to align information technology (IT) with business goals, turn …

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Do you have a global mindset?Heeft u een ‘global mindset’?Har du ett globalt mindset?Vertreten Sie eine globale Einstellung?

7 December 2011 Offshoring

I recently did a presentation on Talk About IT. One of the topics of my story was how mindset affects (working with) global teams. The highlights: 1. ‘I want to have people in my office’ This is a mindset that many …

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