Understanding the Advantages of Outsourcing
To an ordinary person, outsourcing a business would seem like a waste of company resources and an additional complication for running a business. This makes sense because after all, why should a company send business abroad when it can be … Continue reading →

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Bridge Global It Staffing
Because we have both an offshore and two nearshore offices, chances are high that Bridge has the talented IT employee you are looking for. If not we will find the perfect candidate for you. Your programmers and designers work at our offices in Moldova, Ukraine and India. But you can just call our account manager in Europe if you want to know more about IT staffing with Bridge. +31(0)229 27 15 54

What are the Americans doing that we Europeans are not doing?
I frequently speak to people in India that run BPO or software firms and I am always astonished by the numbers. People tell me that they started their software company 5 years back and employ 2000 people today. In Management … Continue reading →

Quality Software with Agile Teams
Agile teams have shown to be a great way to deliver high quality software products. The agile values favore quality, and there are several agile practices that are applied by agile teams to develop high quality software. What is Quality? … Continue reading →

The Key Steps to Process Outsourcing
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 … Continue reading →

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Dutch government: offshoring is no ground for collective firing
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:http://nu.pvda.nl/berichten/2011/12/Overhevelen-activiteiten-naar-buitenland-mag-geen-reden-voor-collectief-ontslag-zijn.html

The Rise of Financial Management as a Strategic Tool
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 … Continue reading →

Do you have a global mindset?
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 … Continue reading →

The #1 Way Internet Marketers Throw Away Their Time, Energy & Money
By now, just about every Internet marketer knows they ‘should’ be using a virtual assistant to free up their time for more important matters like strategizing, organizing campaigns, arranging JVs, creating new promotions, fine-tuning offers, etc. But, still, many marketers contin

What does it take to successfully manage an offshore team?
Report: Talk About IT, November 15, 2011 Last Tuesday was the fifth time Talk About IT in Amsterdam. Talk About IT is a platform where interesting experienced speakers present their views about the latest topics in IT and where IT professionals come together to increase the size

Talk About IT- Nov 11
Talk About IT 15 November 2011
Regardz De Zilveren Toren, Amsterdam

The 5th edition of Talk About IT about " How to make success in outsourcing?" was a great success! Thanks to the speakers John Blazey (TomTom), Chris Smit (Culture Matters) & Wilco Turnhout (Rapid Circle)

More details at http://talkabout-it.nl/detail/?id=11

Good Governance as a Competitive Advantage
One would think the studies that demonstrate a strong correlation between good governance and the successful outcome of outsourcing engagements would be enough to convince everyone to pursue it, but that is not the case. Even the largest and most successful outsourcing vendors ca

Trends in international outsourcing
The past few years international outsourcing has come to play an increasingly large part within the IT industry. Mainly large companies like KPN and Sogeti regularly decide to relocate projects offshore, especially to India. For example, KPN announced two weeks ago that 450 Getro

Global Staffing: creating co-workers
Yesterday, I visited a seminar in Amsterdam about offshoring and afterwards had a long discussion with a project manager from Accenture. The main message of the day for me was that if you want to work with people on a distance successfully, you need to create co-workers.  Innovit

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Global Software Development: Fixed price or not?
Internet and software projects are often executed on a fixed price & fixed date contract. The customer outsourcing the project feels ‘protected’ against delays and misunderstandings in delivery. But are you as a customer really protected or does it make the risk of project failur

How to make an offshore programmer wildly motivated?
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http://bridge-outsourcing.nl/ http://bridge-outsourcing.com/ One of my clients pointed me to an interesting question: how to make an offshore programmer enth...

6 governance habits to create success in global staffing
The traditional outsourcing model uses a fixed price or SLA as a basis to manage the relationship between the people onshore and offshore. The agreement is based on result. In global staffing, the agreement is based on effort and availability. This means that the outsourcer doesn

The Future of Offshoring - Global Staffing
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http://bridge-outsourcing.nl/ http://bridge-outsourcing.com/ The past years, offshoring and nearshoring have become widespread among Western companies. Driven ...