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Global Services
November 29, 2007 |
The Future of Foreign-currency Fluctuation To protect themselves against the vagaries of the dollar, IT and BPO service providers will aggressively look to Europe and Japan as markets.   |
Global Services
May 14, 2008 |
Bracing up for the Slowdown The impact of U.S. slowdown will not be as severe as it was during the dotcom bust; the outsourcing industry has matured fairly well in the past seven years. |
Global Services
May 1, 2008
Ed Nair |
The U.S. Slowdown: Survive & Thrive The global services industry had its best two quarters ever. And, the next few would be marked by measured optimism. A look at how customers and service providers plan to respond to a slowdown. |
Bank Systems & Technology
February 24, 2010
Steve Martin |
Is Banking Ripe for Outsourcing? Several trends in the outsourcing provider space are altering the outsourcing value proposition for banks. |
Global Services
August 29, 2007 |
Overcoming the Dollar's Demise During the first half of 2007, the Indian rupee appreciated more against the U.S. dollar than it has in over a decade. The change in valuation is impacting both the IT and BPO providers with billions in exports and corporations with captive units in the country. |
CIO
September 8, 2010
Stephanie Overby |
Outsourcing: Brazil Blossoms as IT Services Hub CapGemini's $300 million bet on Brazilian outsourcer CPM Braxis is another sign of a sizzling South American IT services market. But much of the activity remains focused on serving local Latin American customers rather than winning over U.S.-based clients. |
Finance & Development
December 2011
Eswar S. Prasad |
Role Reversal Emerging economies are less dependent on debt, less vulnerable to volatile investment sentiment, and are rethinking the role of capital flows |
CFO
October 1, 2009
Josh Hyatt |
The New Calculus of Offshoring For years the offshoring boom was driven by one factor: savings. Today the decision is much more complicated. |
Insurance & Technology
June 16, 2004 |
Transforming Your Business Through IT and Business Process Outsourcing Insurance is a risk management industry, and its approach to outsourcing should be consistent with its nature. Risks are to be managed, not fled from. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 7, 2003 |
How Warburg Pincus Views Prospects and Perils in Outsourcing Deals What opportunities do private equity firms like Warburg Pincus see in the business process outsourcing business? What risks do venture capitalists weigh when making such investments? |
CIO
November 14, 2012
Stephanie Overby |
IT Services Get Closer to Home IT chiefs find that domestic outsourcing (as opposed to offshoring) is becoming more attractive as it delivers advantages such as agility, speed and innovation |
Global Services
November 29, 2007 |
The Future of Deal Structures Business the world over is getting savvier -- and that also goes for outsourcing, as market trends today portend some notable shifts in IT and Business Process Outsourcing deal structures for 2010. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2007
Mohamed A. El-Erian |
Dealing with Global Fluidity With new forces shaping global capital markets, participants in international finance are well advised to rethink their operating models. |
CIO
May 7, 2009
Stephanie Overby |
Applied Materials: Looking to Flexible Offshoring Deals to Survive Applied Materials' CIO Ron Kifer had to get creative to cut costs, renegotiating with offshore providers and easing up on service levels. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 7, 2007
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Bank Tech Experts Discuss Vendor Relationships Here, these industry experts talk about outsourcing and offshoring along with other areas of bank tech concerns. |
Global Services
November 4, 2008
Eugene Kublanov |
Rethinking Globalization: Future Proofing Global Services Are those in the outsourcing and offshoring industry insulated from adverse changes in the future? Yes, but it's time to re-think your globalization, offshoring and outsourcing strategy and ensure that it is adequately future-proofed |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Carlo Cottarelli |
Paying the Piper The role of medium-term fiscal policy in rebounding from the crisis. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2009
David Blanchard |
IndustryWeek's 2009 Salary Survey Comments on Manufacturing's Biggest Challenge: The Economy As part of the IndustryWeek 2009 Salary Survey, we asked the open-ended question: What is the biggest challenge facing the manufacturing industry today? |
Finance & Development
September 2008
Prasad & Rajan |
Next Generation Financial Reforms for India A new report advocates a shake-up in India's financial system to underpin growth |
Global Services
July 11, 2008
Mukherji & Singh |
The Next Wave of Outsourcing: Remote Infrastructure Management The rapid evolution in remote server-management technologies and IT architectures, changes in customer behaviors and demand patterns, and developments in the provider and offshore supply environment is propelling the industry toward accelerated adoption of RIM |
CIO
May 10, 2012
Stephanie Overby |
5 Outsourcing Trends to Watch Deals are getting smaller, with new pricing models, while security and cloud computing become hot topics. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2008
Hanson & Weisshaar |
How to Cope With a Global Financial Crisis Many previously strong emerging market currencies such as the Brazilian real, the Indian rupee, and the new Turkish lira have dropped substantially against the U.S. dollar recently. |
CIO
April 6, 2011
Stephanie Overby |
IT Outsourcing in Latin America: 9 Things Your Vendor Won't Tell You The Latin American IT services market is heating up, but buyer beware: There are hidden costs and issues that could affect your nearer-shore outsourcing deal. |
Finance & Development
December 2010 |
Emerging Markets Come of Age These vibrant middle-income countries survived the global recession, but face bumps as they seek to solidify their place in the world economy. |
Global Services
November 29, 2007 |
The Future of Deal Structures The global commercial outsourcing industry will produce $74 billion in revenue for the participating providers in 2007. The industry is growing at a rate of 4% to 5% per annum, and there are almost 2,000 active outsourcing agreements in place today. |
Global Services
December 7, 2008
Neeraja Kandala |
Global Legal-Services Market: Crisis Creates New opportunities Offshore legal services industry has been reporting over 40 percent growth annually and we can expect an even higher than average growth over the next two years. |
Insurance & Technology
May 4, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Economy Drives Exploration of New Outsourcing Opportunities Insurers are slightly more cautious about the financial, political and security risks of offshoring, but they are keen to find new BPO opportunities. |
Global Services
July 1, 2008
Imrana Khan |
The Case for Transformation Beyond the hype about transformation there's some real work being delivered that makes the case for business transformation outsourcing. |
CIO
August 23, 2013
Stephanie Overby |
How to Get Multiple IT Outsourcing Providers to Play Nice Why can't your IT service providers all just get along? Here are steps you can take throughout the multisourcing lifecycle to get everyone working together. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2008
Ginsburg & Noorlander |
Investigating Outsourcing and Offshoring Research For 15 years, there have been discussions on whether or not to outsource research. You would think the issue would be resolved by now, but today we have more questions than answers. |
Global Services
December 2, 2008
Sam Kramer |
Outsourcing Under the Obama Administration Equity analysts and industry participants are attempting to determine the likely extent and impact the Obama administration will have on the industry's and companies' fortunes. |
Global Services
November 5, 2007
Singh & Puryear |
Beyond Single Site, Single Provider As companies measure their offshore presence, they grapple with two large challenges. First, the increasing imbalance between workforce supply and demand, and second, where to site their offshore activities. |
Bank Technology News
December 2008
Michael Dumiak |
East On Ice Many American banks will be preoccupied this year with keeping their own doors open and staying ahead of the global economic crisis; but the issue of outsourcing abroad, how much and to where, is a vital strategic question that must be addressed. |
CFO
March 1, 2011
Janet Kersnar |
Outsourcing Matures, Slowly To make outsourcing deals succeed, CFOs still need to ask plenty of questions -- and demand more flexibility in contracts. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 26, 2006
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Outsourcing Questions and answers about bank outsourcing. |
Bank Technology News
July 2009
John Adams |
The Other Systemic Threat to Banking Credit default swaps, core processing systems and ATM networks would all appear to be different animals in the financial zoo, but there may be some dangerous common ground. |
CIO
March 9, 2012
Stephanie Overby |
IT Service Providers and Customers Battle Over Data Breaches IT outsourcing providers and their customers are fighting hard over data security liability limits at the negotiating table, and the issue is going to get more contentious in the cloud. |
CFO
March 17, 2003
Laton McCartney |
A Shore Thing? Risk and reward have always been major factors in offshore outsourcing. The trick, of course, is to mitigate the former while maximizing the latter. |
Global Services
December 7, 2008
Chris Osentowski |
Global Sourcing Strategies Customers are conferring with their global sourcing providers to revisit their outsourcing strategies, procurement processes, transition and delivery commitments for what is expected to be a soft year. |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2010
Eric Dutram |
Currency ETFs: A Better Way to Play the BRIC? Most emerging markets ETFs are dominated by the BRIC economies -- Brazil, Russia, India, and China -- which are expected to account for an increasingly large portion of the global economy in the coming decades. |
Global Services
December 4, 2008
Andrew Efstathiou |
Revisiting Bank Sourcing in Troubled Times Can banks aggressively reduce cost with limited investment funds, managerial time, and limited growth prospects? |
Global Services
January 31, 2008 |
2008 Global Services 100 Survey: Findings The Global Services 100 list, drawn by Global Services and neoIT, now in its fourth year, has come to be seen by the customers as a route to bypass the RFI stage, and the rankings as a means to shortlist candidates for RFP. |
Global Services
June 10, 2008
Shyamanuja Das |
Outsourcing to India: 1998 Vs. 2008 If you want to offshore to India for the same reasons some of your peers did in 1998, then do so at your own risk. |
Bank Technology News
February 2002
Joseph McKendrick |
Leave Computing to Us Outsourcing hits its stride in banking... |
Global Services
December 4, 2008
Masur & Baldia |
Outsourcing in a Challenging Economy: The Multisourcing Alternative Many companies today are increasingly recognizing the possible benefits of a newer strategy known as multisourcing, which may well be a particularly effective strategy in rough economic times |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Peggy Cope |
Globalization and the Future At the ONE Conference in Atlanta, experts tackled the cutting-edge questions of finance and procurement globalization. Here are some highlights from the presentations and panels. |
On Wall Street
August 1, 2009
Milton Ezrati |
There Are Reasons to Worry About the Dollar's Long Term Prospects The dollar's recent decline on foreign exchange markets has prompted investors to worry about a further, more significant drop. |
CIO
June 29, 2012
Stephanie Overby |
10 Signs Your IT Outsourcing Provider Wants to Dump You IT service providers and their customers have gotten better at building arrangements likely to work for both parties over the long haul, but sometimes relationships fall apart. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Does a Declining Dollar Spell Doom? The odds of an outright devaluation of the U.S. dollar at the hands of the federal government are fairly low. However, in today's global economy, investors can suffer from many of the consequences of devaluation even without any formal governmental action. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Kamil et al. |
A Hedge, Not a Bet Latin American companies used new techniques to protect against currency swings. But a few used them to gamble -- and they lost big. |
