Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 7)

By guest author Tony Scott The Phases of Outsourcing: The Value of IP vs. Productization Tony: That’s great, but isn’t a company’s core IP still really important? Anand: To give some context here about your IP question, what I find is that with many of the small startups, you’ll find two or three founders who

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SM: So your strategy to stabilize the business after the dot-com crash was to continue development of your software product and then conduct acquisitions to increase your core product offering? KC: Yes, and at the same time we continued to add capabilities into the technology stack to cover a broader area in the sourcing and

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