Trends Report

Onshore And Nearshore Services Gain Full Focus As Business Transformation Demands A Tightly Knit Partner Strategy

The Need For On-Demand Communication Is Driving Distributed Delivery Teams Closer To Home

Amanda LeClair
 and  five contributors
Mar 24, 2022

Summary

Executives expect to staff more services from every location, but two-thirds of the 1,550 services decision-makers we surveyed say that their most important location increases in 2022 are onshore, nearshore, and onsite — not offshore. One reason is that software development happens at a much faster pace today, requiring closer collaboration among delivery teams, often in daily standup meetings. Development teams in faraway time zones are harder to keep coordinated than those nearby.

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