customers in markets , and we ' ve built a distributed development model , enabling them to contribute to the whole Vodafone community across Europe and near shore strategy . We opened centres , primarily in Europe , to help us get access to talent and build great services for digital inside the European footprint .”
Offshore is also a key strategy according to Petty , with the strategy “ leveraging our great centres in India , Egypt and Romania , where we ' ve been investing considerably over a period of time to build shared services that we can offer to all of our markets .” he said .
“ Our goal is to be 60 % insourced , 40 % outsourced over the next couple of years ”
SCOTT PETTY CDIO , VODAFONE
Building a strong and resilient internal core From being a predominantly outsourced organisation , where Vodafone used external vendors to build most of their capabilities , the business has and continues to move to a much more insourced organisation .
Petty remarks that “ our goal is to be 60 % insourced , 40 % outsourced over the next couple of years , which will enable us to bring in software engineers to build our own platforms and take control of our technology , which will be critical to us as a digital enabler in the economy . We ' ve announced that we ' ll be
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