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, [...]
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Posted 03 September 2009
† Subhash Nair
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Tagged: businessweek, Dave West, Forrester Research, Gordon Brooks, informationweek, outcome based outsourcing, output based outsourcing, outsourced product development, product engineering, software, symphony services
I was briefly at the Multicore Expo last week and there was some talk about programming effectively for multicore chipsets. However most of the vendors exhibiting seemed to shrug it off as a non-issue. Their explanation being that their OS or platform would handle the scheduling processes and utilization of cores from existing software as-is [...]
Global Services and neoIT, through their Global Services 100 Study, recently announced the top outsourced product development service providers for 2009. Symphony Services was named the Best Performer. The full report is available at http://www.globalservicesmedia.com/Content/general200903036094.asp. Have you worked with any of these firms? What is your experience and recommendations when it comes to outsourcing product [...]