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’. Recently she visited our Indian office as part of her research. She spend some days with the team. Here are … Continue reading
If we look back at the current era in about 15-20 years, will we be talking about a revolution when we talk about offshoring? Could offshoring become so ingrained in the way we do business, that it truly changes the way we organize labor on a global scale? In a research, done by two German researchers last year, I found … Continue reading
Volkskrant, a popular newspaper in the Netherlands, published an article with the title ‘knowledge economy under pressure because of shortage of IT people‘. In the Netherlands (and the rest of Europe), there are big shortages of skilled IT people. ICT office predicts that in 2015, the Netherlands will lack 8.600 people in IT, which will double in the years after. … Continue reading
Offshoring and nearshoring are becoming increasingly popular. Articles are published about new offshoring decisions made by multinationals almost every day. And with the eternal struggle to find talent and lower costs, the importance of involving people from offshore or nearshore countries grows. The question that I hear frequently is ‘am I ready for offshoring?’. It appears to many people that … Continue reading
Last week I came accross a book called ‘creative capitalism‘, which is based on a speech delivered by Bill Gates in Davos a few years ago. Bill Gates advocates an alternative form of capitalism in which companies do ‘good’ and at the same time make a profit. The speech can be found here in text and here is a 5 … Continue reading
Price Waterhouse Coopers published a research they did among 1200 CEO’s around the world. The research is called ‘Growth reimagined’ and is available here: http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/ceo-survey/index.jhtml. The research shows that most CEO’s expect the economy and their company to grow within the next few years. Worldwide, almost half of the CEO’s predicts growth for their company in 2011. In Germany, this number is … Continue reading
