Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 9)

By guest author Tony Scott Silos Are Out, Specialization Is In Tony: I’ve done a lot of work with service business, and they are typically either aligned around geography or around a service solution, and there’s always some matrix of the two; you can’t get away from that. But if you’re doing innovation-related work in

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Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 8)

By guest author Tony Scott Ensuring a Sense of Common Purpose Across a Global Team Peter: Creating a sustainable culture is important. There are a couple of things to say about our experience here at GlobalLogic. First of all, we started as an R&D business from the outset. We didn’t evolve to be one; we

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Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 7)

By guest author Tony Scott Creating a Culture of Innovation Tony: Going back to your comment earlier about the cultural differences between an R&D-driven organization and an IT organization, the kinds of people that are needed in those kinds of organizations do have to think pretty differently. So, there’s a big cultural difference for the

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Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 6)

By guest author Tony Scott The Challenge of Finding Strong Middle Management Tony: Are you finding it more difficult to attract and retain the kind of people you need? The services GlobalLogic provides clearly require the high end of the skill set compared to outsourced call center services, for example.

Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 5)

By guest author Tony Scott The IT Pyramid in the United States and India Tony: People don’t like to be changed or face change – it’s a scary proposition for many – but the technology sector is built on the fundamental concept that change must happen – ever better, ever faster, ever more capable technological

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Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 4)

By guest author Tony Scott On Course for a Collision? The Future of Product and Services Companies Tony: In that environment [where it’s more about solving business problems than technology problems], much of the technology becomes totally contextual and therefore less important and of much less value. Outsourcing services companies that are only focusing on

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Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 3)

By guest author Tony Scott Tony: It would it would seem to me that there’s a huge value proposition in someone being able to say: “We’ve got this kind of talent and we could apply it when you need it. And then when you don’t need the world’s most brilliant expert on RF antenna design,

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Outsourcing: Peter Harrison, CEO Of GlobalLogic (Part 2)

By guest author Tony Scott The Nature of R&D and Innovation Tony: So, your focus, the heart of the service provided by GlobalLogic, is to manage the R&D process for your clients? Peter: Correct, we call on the CTO. IT services always calls on the CIO. Tony: Tell me a little bit about how you

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