Scaling Beyond Borders How IT decision makers will build their tech teams after 2020
BUILD YOUR TEAM WITH THE SCALERS
Prologue This ebook explores how an altered business
TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S 2020: A Tidal Shift
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1.0 Assessing the Skyline: Challenges
landscape has emerged in the wake of the coronavirus
and Opportunities
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— forcing adaptation, prompting diversification, posing
1.1 Innovation Without Disruption
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new challenges, and revealing new opportunities.
1.2 A Shore Redrawn
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This points to a cultural shift of businesses embracing global talent pools, and remote working as a new normal. For businesses to remain resilient and competitive, new practices and technologies will need to be adopted, and a new working culture embraced.
2.0 Redefined: Offshore 2.0
2.1 A Reimagining Not a Reset
— and other IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) — to act as a guide as they navigate new waters and chart what we call Offshore 2.0. We hope you enjoy the report.
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2.2 Maximising Resilience: Leverage the 2.0 Model
2.3 Offshore 1.0 v Offshore 2.0
3.0 Offshore 2.0: Your Most Strategic Asset This paper is for CTOs, CIOs, Heads of Engineering
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3.1 O ur Playbook — Building Global Development Teams
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3.2 Scaling Beyond Borders
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3.3 Inside Peek: A Preqin Case Study
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Conclusion
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BUILD YOUR TEAM WITH THE SCALERS
2020: A Tidal Shift Covid-19 has negatively affected growth, yet simultaneously driven transformation. In order to survive, many businesses have been forced to adapt and digitalise their customer offerings. Boutique eateries have moved online, partnering with disruptive delivery entrants to raise the spirits of their quarantined customers; fitness instructors have swapped the studio for a streamed
— and they’re more ready than ever to embrace global talent pools to find the right people with the right skills. The permanence of such positive attitudes remains to be seen, as it’s certain that the aftereffects of the pandemic will cause ripples within global commerce even after the acute issue is addressed. Unsurprisingly, an April 2020 Gallup Panel found the highest percentage of people stating a preference for continuing to work remotely were employed in technology.2
class online. Other businesses have used the crisis as a chance to diversify their offerings — digitalisation not as a means to survive but instead a way to seize the opportunity. In a DMEXCO survey, 70% of respondents from DACH regions expect the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic to accelerate the pace of their digital transformation.1 Elsewhere, global business leaders and their employees report that flexible working is now ‘the new normal’
1. DMEXCO Trend Study April 2020 2. Gallup Panel 2020
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