Some interesting facts to know.

Speaking about the Nordic countries IT potential, it must be stated that all the Nordic countries are at the top of the world's strongest development within the information technology and competitiveness.

Of the 104 countries ranged, all the Nordic countries are in a very strong position. The high placements are among other things an expression of great innovation abilities. Development and research in the Nordic nations has led to an impressive number of IT patents compared with the number of inhabitants in each of those countries, writes WEF.

Moreover, estimating other obvious facts we may conclude that Scandinavian countries are considered one of the most active and open to IT offshore outsourcing offers from low cost countries. Scandinavian companies, at large, are quite open to learn about opportunities in offshore IT outsourcing. However many of them would have difficulties to separate software design (high added value activity, which they would not want to outsource on the first instance), coding (low added value, labor intensive process), customer service and support. This indicates a serious problem with process maturity with a number of organizations.

The level of knowledge and understanding of offshore IT outsourcing shows a mixed picture. Most information companies absorbed from IT magazines, general press and from each other. India, China and the Eastern European Countries (Baltic States, Bulgaria, Poland) are mentioned as known outsourcing destinations. Information is not available on countries and opportunities. Companies often do not know about specialized on-line information sources on offshore IT outsourcing. However they were very positive on learning about such an information source and receive regular information on the subject. An area of particular interest was information on the risks involved in offshore outsourcing. Only a few companies have structured and reliable information on the risks involved and the way risks can be mitigated.

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