Attended the SaaS Economic Summit last week and there were some interesting sessions that talked about the economics of SaaS. Lauren Kelley, CEO, OPEXEngine presented some operating benchmarks on SaaS companies that was aggregated from data OPEXEngine collected from SaaS & non-SaaS companies. Some of the key points from her presentation: She quoted Will Price’s [...]
Couple of recent deals announced, one I mentioned earlier by Nokia Siemens and another by Rockwell Collins to open an outsourced offshore design center illustrate the growth in R&D outsourcing. The current (June 2007) issues of R&D Magazine has a cover story (R&D Outsourcing Becomes More Strategic) that describes the result of a May 2007 [...]
WSJ has a very good report by Phanish Puranam and Kannan Srikanth of London School of Business that describes Seven Myths About Outsourcing (WSJ.com subscription required) and how to address those. The video interview above talks in brief about some. The essence of the report is that outsourcing and offshoring are highly collaborative engagements where [...]