Sensible Offshoring
Last week I talked about how common offshoring models can and do go badly wrong, reducing or eliminating the savings expected from lower labour rates. The key problem here is in increasing communication span....
Category: Communication Span
How not to Offshore
Countries such as India, Malaysia have large number of highly-educated people who are prepared to work for a fraction of the cost of a US or European employee. This is a compelling argument for...
How to Screw Up Your Organisation Part 2
OK, I’m a week late with this one, Steve’s story was so timely I posted that last week instead. Last week I talked about the commonly given benefits of consolidation and why they are...
How to Screw up Your Organisation Part 1
Once upon a time, people worked in teams focussed on a common piece of work and had most of the skills needed to do that work within the team. This went pretty well as...
Where IT All Went Wrong
There was a time when a big IT project cost $5-10 million, now it’s north of $50m, big programmes run to hundreds of millions, even past a billion. At the same time, getting things...
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