Category Archives: Offshoring

The role of people in the success of offshoring

In my previous article, I wrote about personal values in the offshoring context. In this article I want to discuss the role of people in making offshoring work. Some questions related to this subject: Who are the people in my …

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What role do your personal values have on your offshoring decisions?

I just wrote a comment on Computable, a famous Dutch IT newspaper; the article discusses a research from Ordina about the under estimation of the human side in outsourcing. Speaking about the human side of outsourcing puts two central subjects …

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Risk Management in Small Teams

I was taught risk management the classic way. You know, risk log, voting for probability and impact, finding out which risks are the most painful, deciding on mitigation plan, discussing results etc. A cool thing in this old-school process is that it …

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Setting up a team in your own office or offshore?

If you are working in IT, I think that you have pondered over this question somewhere in the recent past? Two or three years ago, when the economies were booming, the main question was ‘how can I attract the talent …

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New terminology in offshore outsourcing – Part 2

A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the terminology we use in the offshore outsourcing landscape. (https://www.bridge-global.com/blog//outsourcing/terminology-offshore-outsourcing)I have posted the question in some groups and the Q&A in linkedin and on our blog; this generated a lot of …

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