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Nearly any company nowadays relies on Software for its business. Not to mention the current effect of innovative digital business models on the market.

With mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets being a central part of everyday life, they are also becoming more and more pervasive at work. Although the impact of mobile technologies in the B2B sector is currently not as big as in the B2C sector, it will certainly be in the future. That’s because employees... Continue reading Mobile Usage of B2B Applications – Extending the plixos B2B Marketplace to the Mobile Channel

Munich, Dec 01, 2015 You are interested in our results? Please contact us at fabian.lajtkep@plixos.com We offer: Comprehensive analysis related to relationship quality in IT outsourcing Novel approach to automatically identify relationship quality with the help of metrics from social network analysis Insights into new and creative approaches to manage and control outsourcing projects Wir... Continue reading Social Network Analysis – A Method to Identify Relationship Quality in IT Outsourcing

“The first impression is the last impression” or “you never get a second chance to make a first impression”. Those phrases are well-known around the world.  

Are you an IT Service Provider? Are you losing out on outsourcing business while trying to win new projects? Scratching your head and asking yourself where you are going wrong? You may be the best at what you do but still having trouble convincing IT Outsourcing Customers that you are trustworthy?

Since decades military and political leaders have used a strategy of “divide and conquer” (from Latin “divide et impera” as implemented in the Roman Empire, to tackle complex challenges. Our interpretation of a recent article by McKinsey & Co. on large scale Software projects as well as our understanding of agile practices lead to the... Continue reading “Divide and Conquer” – Historic Strategy Applied for Large Scale SW Projects by Building on Agile Process and Automated Governance

The impact of Digital business models is a hot topic for nearly all corporates and one of the key areas strategic advisors focus on. In 2014, McKinsey issued a series of articles on Digitization. In one titled “Reinventing IT for Digitalization” they state that “companies seeking strong digital performance must thoroughly transform their IT functions”.... Continue reading McKinsey on Reinventing IT for Digitization: Efficiency and Scalability in Sourcing plus Agility are Necessities

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’.... Continue reading CROWDSOURCING in IT Outsourcing: “Multiple Heads Are Better than One” – If Properly Managed

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... Continue reading IT in 2020 – towards a Digital Global Sourcing as one Pillar for Success

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... Continue reading Key questions from the book “The Outsourcing Dilemma” by J. Brian Heywood from 2001 and answers through the eyes of pliXos from 2015