Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 12)

By guest author Tony Scott Human Capital – The Critical Limiting Factor? Tony: Your three key points about the future of outsourcing all make good sense. Those three points that I picked up that are as follows: One is that moving out of the labor arbitrage value proposition and into a pure competency-based value proposition

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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 11)

By guest author Tony Scott Outsourcing and the Mind of the CEO Tony: Anand, how have you changed the way you have gone about marketing and selling your services over the past few years? Have you changed your approach since the downturn?

Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 10)

By guest author Tony Scott Industry Trends Driving Outsourcing – The End of Software? Tony: Do you see other trends in the software industry that will drive more companies to outsource product development? Anand: Well, a key trend is this whole cloud computing business. As people start to look at things that can be a

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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 9)

By guest author Tony Scott Labor Arbitrage Cost Differentials Tony: Anand, what is the cost structure differential right now that you are seeing between the United States and India? Anand: We are still about one-third the cost of doing the same project in the United States.

Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 8)

By guest author Tony Scott Product Development – Indian Style vs. Silicon Valley Tony: Anand, how do you compare the process of product development in your company with the way software companies traditionally work? Anand: The entire value of what we have done in the Indian software industry has been our ability to use junior

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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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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 6)

By guest author Tony Scott The Phases of Outsourcing: The Future of Outsourced Product Development in the Software Industry Tony: How long do you think it will be before software product companies move to the fourth level of outsourcing, where they will be doing the equivalent of original design manufacturing?

Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 5)

By guest author Tony Scott The Phases of Outsourcing:  Design For Manufacturing and Original Design Manufacturing The third phase is what we call design for manufacturing. In this phase, the people who are responsible for delivering this outsourced process say, “OK, now I know exactly how this all works together, and I can do it

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