Blog Detail

About offshoring

http://www.remi-vespa.com

IT outsourcing to China for small to mid size businesses (SMB)

Added on: Jun 14th, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Remi Vespa
Listed in: Small Business Software
Tags: china agile venus it outsourcing remi vespa extreme programming

Recent Posts

Save the economy: start your own business

Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 12:22 in business, HR, employee sharing model, new approach to employment, new hr model, new outsourcing models, venus software

Most would agree today that lifetime employment belongs to history. But it seems that the concept of employment itself is coming under fire, at least in the microcosm I know better: the small to mid size businesses (SMBs). Non-core functions like ...
Financing a software start-up

Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 09:43 in business, software development, technical, friends and family, venture capitalist, incubators, business angel, market traction, work for equity

Venture capitalists seldom invest in software start-ups nowadays, especially if their product relates to WEB 2.0, social networks, or other online businesses. They first want to see (i) an initial product financed by the founders and (ii) some market...
Nandan Nilekani honored by Time Magazine

Posted on Tuesday May 19th, 2009 at 18:51 in business, nasscom, infosys, time magazine, nandan nilekani, satyam

Time magazine’s recent list of the 100 world’s most influential people includes Nandan Nilekani. The Indian outsourcing industry has been getting a lot of bad press recently, especially after Ramalinga Raju admitted having inflated Satyam’s pr...
The Services Shift

Posted on Thursday April 9th, 2009 at 23:18 in india, china, business, outsourcing, globalization, offshore, robert kennedy, globalization of services

I just finished Robert Kennedy’s ”The Services Shift”, a book on the globalization of services, with an emphasis on Information Technology. Kennedy is a Professor at Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He also runs the William Davidson Inst...
Blended rates: pros and cons

Posted on Sunday February 8th, 2009 at 13:46 in business, smb, it outsourcing, fixed prices, blended rates

Outsourcing vendors often use “blended rates” to calculate the monthly / quarterly amounts due by their customers. Simply put, the blended rate is an hourly rate that applies to any single team member, regardless of seniority, from the less exper...
Outsourcing: the wrong side of the fence

Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 13:30 in business, outsourcing, Offshoring, jack in the box, corporate grid

Bringing jobs back home is a hot topic nowadays. While offshore is here to stay, no matter what, it certainly does not mean we should support any type and form of offshoring. Going offshore to circumvent shortage of local talents, insufficient infr...