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Digitalisation in Sourcing Advisory and Vendor Management – Our Vision gathers pace and gets support
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Jörg Stimmer and Hartmut Jaeger
Digital Business models are one of the hottest topics discussed today. Strategy consultants, especially when having a background in IT see a lot to gain – for their corporate clients as well as for themselves.
When we started pliXos, our main goal was to come up with a solution to offer transparency in application development projects, mainly when working with a distributed team. As a result, an automated cockpit of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) was developed and offered to large and mid-size corporations as our Outsourcing Director.
Study results show; around 80% of German companies are at least partly satisfied with their IT service providers – pliXos GmbH
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The third and last article from short series also deals with the results of the study “Ardour Sourcing Pulse Check” by Ardour Consulting Group (www.ardour.de). Within this article we concentrate on the findings regarding the level of satisfaction and of achieving the customer’s targets. At the end we will introduce software called “Outsourcing Advisor” which addresses all important aspects and enables a fast and easy definition of a realistic outsourcing strategy.
Increasing interest in nearshore and offshore Outsourcing – despite challenges in sourcing governance: study confirms pliXos experience
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The recently published study “Ardour Sourcing Pulse Check” (http://www.ardour.de/), by Ardour Consulting Group shows some interesting results on the German market of IT services which are in line with the pliXos experiences. These results and the corresponding recommendations to act from our perspective will be subject to a series of three articles, this being the first one.
Study reveals success factors and the average contract duration of IT Outsourcing by German organisations– pliXos GmbH
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The second article of this small series concentrates on the results of the study “Ardour Sourcing Pulse Check” which was released several months ago by Ardour Consulting Group (www.ardour.de). Whereas the first article dealt with the problems within an outsourcing relationship, the most widely used pricing models and the selection of the right outsourcing strategy, the focus of this second article is on the average contract term as well as on identified success factors.
Best Practices in project organisation and management in Software Engineering – using the right tools provided by pliXos
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred Broy, dean of the chair Software & Systems Engineering at the Technische Universität München and Dr. Marco Kuhrmann, published an article concerning project organisation and management in software engineering in the IT Freelancer Magazine 03/14. The article refers to their homonymous new book and deals with the difficulties faced by a project manager in software development that usually increase when using remote teams, regardless whether the IT teams are offshore or nearshore.
