IT Outsourcing Blog
CROWDSOURCING in IT Outsourcing: “Multiple Heads Are Better than One” – If Properly Managed
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Crowdsourcing, a modern business term coined in 2005, is defined by Merriam-Webster as the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers; The word is a combination of the words 'crowd' and 'outsourcing'. The idea is to take work and outsource it to a crowd of workers.
In a February 1, 2008 article, Daren C. Brabham, "the first [person] to publish scholarly research using the word crowdsourcing" and writer of the 2013 book, Crowdsourcing, defined it as an "online, distributed problem-solving and production model."
IT in 2020 – towards a Digital Global Sourcing as one Pillar for Success
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In its white paper “IT 2020: Preparing for the future” the experts of A.T. Kearney investigate important trends in IT and how successful companies will build on IT in 2020. They explain why “digital tools are now ubiquitous in all aspects of commerce, from business processes to services and transaction” and that “information technology is the main engine driving the change”. We couldn’t agree more.
When it comes to sourcing of services in general and to Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) in particular, customers benefit from our SaaS-based tool-suite which radically simplifies global outsourcing. Automation combined with optimized processes offers customers transparency, improved sourcing relationships and more outsourcing value.
The IT Outsourcing Paradox as seen by others - viewpoint and solutions by us
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A recent article by an IT outsourcing expert and entrepreneur claims that finding the partner that suite a customer’s needs amongst the overwhelming number of providers worldwide is one of the biggest paradoxes in the outsourcing industry http://linkd.in/1dZLTGv
We at pliXos a certain to have solutions to nearly all those challenges described already since our inception in 2009.
Key questions from the book “The Outsourcing Dilemma” by J. Brian Heywood from 2001 and answers through the eyes of pliXos from 2015
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Outsourcing, especially in IT is a hot topic since a long time. Some questions put forward by J. Brian Heywood in his book “ The Outsourcing Dilemma – The Search for Competiveness” already in the year 2001 are still relevant today. Since more than a decade of innovations, developments, new information and technological advances, new generation of minds have come in to the outsourcing industry but the fundamental questions remain the same.
Product Development Services - Forrester Analysis “Sourcing IT Best Practices in the Wake of Digital Disruption” of 2012 and pliXos value proposition
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Already in 2012 Sourcing the right IT skills and partners was identified as a key element to prosper and benefit in the age of digital disruption (http://bit.ly/1DSgGtP). The opinion expressed by Charles Green of Forrester is in line with the experiences of the pliXos management and confirm the pliXos strategy in IT sourcing.
In his opinion “Digital disruption -- a better, stronger, faster version of disruption driven by rapid technology changes and fueled by consumer desire -- will cause a fundamental transition and upheaval of products in nearly every industry.” pliXos itself is a digital business model in IT sourcing and has the potential to be a disruptor in the IT sourcing/vendor management domain.
