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  • Wed, 05/15/2013 - 15:21

    The demand for offshoring is a keeper despite of the increasing costs (labour) in the supplier region. In our conversations with the product managers (manufacturing) and IT managers revealed...

  • Tue, 05/07/2013 - 08:30

    A journalist from Computable, asked me to give a reaction to this very interesting theorem:

    ‘Only by moving as much as possible work to low-income countries like India, Dutch ICT-businesses can keep...

  • Tue, 04/23/2013 - 14:18

    I had the opportunity of addressing a room filled with owners of small, medium sized and large businesses and asked them this question “Are you taking advantage of outsourcing?”  I could hear the crickets chirping as they all stared...

  • Tue, 04/16/2013 - 07:13

    I have just finished reading the book about Zappos ‘delivering happiness‘. I love the story and ideas in it and I am exploring how it applies to our company. My...

  • Tue, 04/02/2013 - 11:23

    Most teams that are doing agile development and are using Scrum have heard about agile retrospectives. Often they also start doing retrospectives after one or more sprints. Some teams keep on doing them, but I’ve heard a lot of teams that didn’t do them frequently, or stopped doing them after some time. The reason I hear most is that they are not getting enough benefits out of them. But if not doing retrospectives means that you will not improve your way of working, and adapt to changes in your team or in your organization, that may be a high price to pay? My suggestion: Do your...