5. Does team location matter?

Some companies have strong reasons for wanting their partner team to be in a specific location or timezone for customer support, increased value, location-specific markets, or even a long-term strategy to establish teams in major technology hubs.

But most companies simply need access to specific skills.

In this scenario, it doesn’t matter where those skills are located — as long as you have the right processes for sports analysis.

We call this mindset “rightshoring.”

GlobalLogic searches to find the people with the right skills, experience, and competencies to staff all our ISO 13485-certified locations, with a long-term plan to build a training and resource certification program for our individual team members.

We once consulted with a company that wanted a QA center in a specific location because it was a short plane ride from their local headquarters.

In our opinion, the targeted location would be unable to support the skill sets and other requirements of the client, but they were insistent that they wanted a “nearshore” team.

We ended up not working with the company, and they established a two-story QA center in their desired location.

A year later, they faced significant collaboration challenges, even though their teams were distributed across just two floors.

Regardless of whether your teams are distributed across a building or the world, what matters are solid processes and tools for distributed collaboration.

GlobalLogic has developed an entire science around building distributed sports analytics labs, which includes parameters and tools such as:

KPIs, SLAs, and other metrics to measure the progress of a client’s lab.
Communication and documentation tools like Jira and SharePoint.
Escalation processes, aligned organization structures, and partnership owners.

We provide sports analytics clients:

200+ skilled team members at your service
12, 24, and 48-hour service options
+95% data accuracy
Specialized experience backed by 1200+ games analyzed and 5M+ events tracked

Want to learn more and see how we can put this experience to work for you? Book a call now.