Category Archives: Outsourcing

10 Offshore Outsourcing Buzz Terms

It is no secret that call center outsourcing is a well known industry; as a matter of fact, there are so many people who know of the many advantages of offshore outsourcing and plan to explore it. There are a lot of jargons used in the “offshore outsourcing” business, which are known to be quite confusing.

Is managing remote teams different from managing a local team?Is het managen van een team op afstand anders dan het managen van een lokaal team?Är det någon skillnad mellan att leda team på distans och att leda team lokalt? Ist das Managen von entfernten Teams anders als das Verwalten von lokalen Teams?

I recently read an interesting discussion on Quora. I love the reply of Venkatesh Rao. I am currently writing a book on managing remote teams and engage many experts from around the world to write about the best practices on offshoring and nearshoring. Here is the reply he posted:

Outsourceable Tasks for Both Small and Large Companies Taken die outsourceable zijn voor kleine en grote bedrijvenOutsourcingbara uppgifter för både små och stora företagAuslagerungsfähige Aufgaben für klein und Große Unternehmen

I noticed that a lot of business owners erroneously believe that only complex office tasks like IT can be outsourced. Both small and large businesses can outsource different types of office activities at an affordable cost without compromising on quality.

Whether you run a small one-person company, or a company with several employees; you can outsource secretarial work – this way, you will be able to focus on the profit generating area of your business.

Success Factors for Using Scrum and Getting BenefitsSucces factoren van het gebruiken van Scrum en voordelen hieruit halenFramgångsfaktorer av att använda Scrum och få ut fördelar av det Erfolgsfaktoren für die Nutzung von Scrum und davon profitieren

There are organization who struggle to get Scrum implemented and used, and have difficulties to adopt agile ways of working. While the Scrum framework looks simple, getting people to work in an agile way with Scrum and getting benefits out of it appears to be difficult for some organizations. But I also see organizations that are successful with Scrum and agile, and which have found better ways to implement it.