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Field trip to Vestas's IT organization in Manila.

We are four students: Jesper Larsen and Tue Lassen (Bachelors in political science) & Claus Laustsen and Rasmus Knap (Bachelors in IT) from Aalborg university, who are currently studying IT management as our Master.

As a part of our 9th semester we are writing two scientific papers in collaboration with Vestas. Furthermore an aspect of our 9th semester has been concerning sourcing strategies and project management. Therefore it is relevant for us to visit Vestas's IT organization in Manila. Besides Vestas we are going to visit two other offshored IT-organizations, NNIT and Excitor.

The papers are as mentioned being composed in cooperation with Vestas which offshored a part of their IT organization to Manila back in 2008. The papers concern the following:

1. How has Vestas IT-organization developed their IT-capabilities and structure over time in the efforts to become a strategic (trusted) partner to the business.

2. To describe and define the IT middle managers role in the IT organization.

The purpose of our trip is to collect data for the two papers and in general learn about and experience the practical aspects of offshoring. We are thereby gaining practical knowledge regarding the challenges IT organizations face when they offshore parts of the IT function, that we can compare to the theoretical literature we have been presented to in class.

We consider this a unique chance to explore the different processes in an offshore organization and learn how leadership and management can be performed.

The purpose of this blog is to summarize and reflect upon the experiences gained from visiting three offshored IT organizations.

Ready to go to Manila? Not quite - the economical aspect

As a student everybody knows that one is on a tight budget and consequently we needed resources to cover parts of our expenses. We therefore have petitioned different funds which have responded positively. The realization of the trip became imminent once the petitions were accept, which was a great relief for all of us.

The blog will be updated regularly and pictures will be shared as well.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

The last interview with Finn Lund Poulsen




Today we set out to collect the last data from the Hub in Manila. Finn was kind to take his time for us once again so that we were able to cover data for both the papers. The interview concerned areas like Finn’s competencies, his role and what function he maintains in Vestas’s offshored IT department. Furthermore we got a chance to learn about his relations towards Denmark and the frequency of communication between Manila and Denmark.
After the interview we all concluded that that we now had more than enough data for further processing. Finn was able to set up a fast meeting with another Danish expatriate, who is the general manager of a systems development function, who specializes in developing software for smartphones. This meeting was due on Friday morning which will be elaborated further in the blog.
On this occasion we would specially like to thank Finn for his effort regarding the establishment of relations to different expatriates in Manila. Furthermore a “thanks” goes out to the employees in the Hub and specially the managers who toke their time to share their knowledge with us.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2013 at 9:55 AM

    In the past, the practice was to dedicate a set of resources to a particular computing technology, line of business or business application and managed in isolation. This created issues in optimization and reconfiguration of systems to support the actual demand and led to the creation of converged infrastructure environments and IT management as a specialized field of operation. IT management, thus, enables organizations to get their applications up and running faster, reducing maintenance requirements and improving manageability with draadloos en wifi.

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  2. UnknownJuly 14, 2013 at 10:06 PM

    Great post, thanks for sharing your experience with us all. I'm involved with IT infrastructure management software, and it certainly sounds like you have learned quite a bit and are taking some great IT management experience away from your time. Best of luck.

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  3. Garrett R. GeigerMarch 21, 2014 at 6:03 AM

    i got my laptop on on wed this week and was able to connect to my neighbors wifi and the internet worked fine. but thurs i was still able to connect to it fine with the same 2out of 5 bar signal on wed, but the internet pages wont load.. if they set up a firewall it would not let me connect and i dont need a password so WHY? i am also serching for Best wedding planner Perth Australia with WIFI services on wedding venue.

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  4. Shane CastaneMarch 22, 2014 at 11:58 AM

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