The folks over at Zinnov are the best when it comes to advice and research data on R&D and product development outsourcing. So if you are evaluating partners for product engineering outsourcing, then you need to take a look at this report titled 2009 R&D Service Provider Rating.
The #1 rated companies in each category are:
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More and more firms are rapidly adopting outcome based outsourcing models for product development. However, not all are ready for it as these quotes from recent articles mention.
Down To Business: Outsourcing’s Next Big Thing (InformationWeek)
Outcome-based outsourcing isn’t more widespread, Brooks says, because most vendors and customers aren’t prepared to manage them. All outcomes, whether judged [...]
Padmasree Warrior, the CTO of Cisco, tweeted this question pointing to this article on the Business Opportunity for the Internet of Things.
Took the liberty to post this here. I thought this question is a good followup to couple of posts I have made on IoT related technologies here (Pervasive Computing) and here (Near Field Communications). [...]