Nearshoring: international collaboration at a relatively short distance
First of all, what is the definition of nearshoring? In our opinion, nearshoring is the transfer of business or IT processes to companies in a nearby country, often sharing a border with our own country.
In 2014 we acquired Strypes Bulgaria, a specialist in embedded software development based on modern agile methodologies. As part of the transaction ICT also acquired a minority stake through Strypes Bulgaria in Strypes Nederland, a technical consultancy company, specialized in Traffic, Transport and Infrastructure. Our Bulgarian colleagues are highly skilled and speak fluent English working for leading companies in the semiconductor industry. More information about our daughter company Strypes, can be found on the Strypes website.
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Our nearshoring facilities help ICT to respond to the shortage of highly skilled technical staff in the Netherlands and the growing customer demand towards outsourcing using modern development techniques. In both Bulgaria and Poland we have professional and passionate development teams. Strypes Bulgaria offers nearshoring solutions for the manufacturing industry. Our facility in Poland, focuses merely on the automotive industry.”
Our key to success is being truly agile. We always keep our focus on how to improve and convince our clients how to move along with us. Remote secondment is a challenging business. Remote workers are expected to be very communicative, fast thinkers, have excellent technical skills, as well as good planning and project management skills. It takes effort and time to have employees with all these skills combined.
Our approach to make our nearshore facilities a success was to have a strong focus on work, the projects and the customer needs. We are used to meeting the high quality standards on code, project management and processes of our clients, but if we think we can make a difference by improving something, we will always go the extra mile.
