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June 4, 2008
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Into its Own: Sourcing as a Profession If the demand for sourcing professionals outstrips supply, where will the talent come from? |
HRO Today
April 2008
Barron & Ranjan |
Embracing the World's Offerings Global sourcing is increasingly a valuable tool for achieving business process outsourcing cost savings, and HR outsourcing buyers, long holdouts against offshoring, will finally start to give in to its alluring value. |
Global Services
May 12, 2008
Imrana Khan |
The Sourcing Advisor Caveat Third-party advisors assistance may be one of the good reasons behind the overall satisfaction with the sourcing engagements you are involved in, but in many instances external advisors can hit hard on your pockets. |
Global Services
September 1, 2008 |
The Definitive Survey of Sourcing Advisers Welcome to the first ever study on sourcing advisory companies that covers the views of service buyers and providers. |
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 |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Buyer's Discourse: By the Numbers Companies that take a strategic and integrated approach to procurement can not only reduce costs, but also realize value and efficiencies. |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Lisa Ross |
Department Procurement: Try Adding Procurement By outsourcing finance & accounting and procurement together, you can fan the flames of powerful synergies that will go straight to the bottom line -- while helping to improve operations. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2006 |
Outsourcing's Next Steps When it's best not to chase cheap labor. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Peggy Cope |
The Drive to Procurement Outsourcing ICG Commerce CEO talks about the drivers, challenges, and best practices of outsourcing your procurement. |
Global Services
June 27, 2007
Deborah Kops |
Building a House Without a Blueprint Rushing off to implement a range of outsourcing or offshoring initiatives without a view of the end game is like trying to build the proverbial dream house without taking the time to first put pencil to paper to develop a schematic. |
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. |
Global Services
June 1, 2008
Imrana Khan |
Offshoring: Not the Answer to the Challenges of Globalization Offshore outsourcing enabled globalization and its economics brought value to the business. What now? |
Wall Street & Technology
June 13, 2006 |
Spending More Can Be Satisfying Research from an outsourcing and insourcing advisory firm reveals a direct correlation between an organization's satisfaction with its outsourcing efforts and how much it invests in outsourcing management and governance. |
IndustryWeek
September 14, 2011 |
Time To Tell Your CPOs to Collaborate With Suppliers How to create value by collaborating inside and outside the organization. |
Global Services
June 27, 2007 |
The Global Sourcers More and more people are sourcing services from around the world for their companies. But do they have the right skills for a job that is becoming increasingly strategic to their companies? |
CIO
August 5, 2014
Stephanie Overby |
IT Outsourcing Customers Mad as Hell, Ready to Walk IT outsourcing customers are demanding more from their providers and consider showing the door to those who can't move up the value chain of IT services, according to a recent survey. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Good Captains and Calm Seas Five ways CPOs can prepare for an economic downturn. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2007
Traci Purdum |
Outsourcing Procurement Personal-paper-products maker Kimberly-Clark aims to focus on what it does best. |
Global Services
August 26, 2008
Lisa Ross |
Choosing the Best Outsourcing Approach One of the latest trends in finance outsourcing is that CFOs are seeking an integrated service delivery approach to outsourcing, instead of a piecemeal approach, to gain greater efficiency, effectiveness, and control and compliance of their finance and accounting (F&A) business process |
Global Services
December 4, 2008
Mark Kobayashi-Hillary |
Small is Beautiful As I look outside at the miserable English rain I'm wondering if the hopeful audacity of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama can really change anything |
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? |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Problems in Purchasing Pricing pressures and attracting new talent are the most imminent threats to the purchasing department. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
The Talent Search New skills and capabilities will be in high demand as procurement moves away from traditional responsibilities. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Sources of Strength With globalization forces transforming their businesses, manufacturers are creating more powerful sourcing strategies to control costs throughout the supply chain. |
HRO Today
Jul/Aug 2008
Atul Vashistha |
Is Global Sourcing an Item on Your Strategic Plan of Action? Survey examines what buyers are thinking when it comes to sourcing services on a global scale. |
Insurance & Technology
June 16, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Room for Improvement Insurers should be more aggressive in managing outsourcing's risks and reaping its rewards as part of an overall sourcing strategy. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Rachael Stormonth |
Are Vendors Contributing To the Slowdown in New Procurement BPO? Mismatches between buy-side requirements and vendors' services and capabilities prove challenging. |
Food Engineering
April 1, 2008 |
Outsourcing requires homework There's no doubt that outsourcing can save money and take the pressure off several business tasks -- if executed properly. But many companies don't do homework first, according to this Deloitte Consulting 2008 report. |
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? |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2007
Brad Kenney |
Second-Generation IT Outsourcing Best practices for IT outsourcing are changing as the process matures. |
HRO Today
May 2008
Andy Teng |
Transforming HR with Data and Expertise Want to hike your HR organization's performance? Sourcing advisors and consultants lend their domain expertise to help pave the way. |
Global Services
October 29, 2007
Deborah Kops |
If the Shoe Fits, Wear it Is there a predictive fit between such characteristics as culture, measurement systems, ways of working, procurement strategy and the type of global services solutions specific companies should implement? |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2009
Nick Zubko |
Are Your Prices Right? Adjusting pricing strategies could help manufacturers survive the economic crisis. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Speaking Out on Outsourcing Study shows more companies are now willing to outsource procurement tasks. |
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2002
Larry Hall |
Finding the Holes in Purchasing Policies The growth of real estate portfolios triggered many inefficiencies that are now apparent in a down economy. Despite greater scrutiny of spending, many real estate executives remain unaware of the high price of wasteful procurement operations. |
Global Services
March 6, 2008 |
Enabling Better Business & IT Alignment What will set apart great business leaders is the ability to adapt to and manage change well. Here are some tips for selecting and managing multiple IT service providers |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Fersht & Sappenfield |
Preparing the New Organization for Life After Outsourcing The cost and performance benefits of outsourcing are now generally recognized, but the range of benefits varies widely. And, much of this variability can be attributed to the company's ability to effectively transition to the new organization. |
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. |
Wall Street & Technology
March 22, 2005
Paul Allen |
The Evolution of Outsourcing Though most trends in the financial services industry tend to be U.S.-led, fund management outsourcing has been more of a U.K. and continental European phenomenon to date, with a raft of high-profile deals hitting the headlines in the past two years. |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Peggy Cope |
Department AP/AR: Chasing the Mid-Market With New AP Tools Research firms predict changes in order-to-cash business, and the development of customizable new tools to meet new market realities. |
Global Services
July 1, 2008
Deborah Kops |
Advice and Warn In a relatively nascent industry such as global services, third-party advisers can play a very important role in the shaping and implementation of a strategy. |
Global Services
January 1, 2008
Blackman & Schweyer |
Buy-side Sourcing Careers The sourcing industry is being seen as a lucrative career path by many professionals. While the basis for a successful sourcing career is already established, firms now need to develop structures and development practices to foster the characteristics that define it. |
IndustryWeek
August 19, 2009
Steve Minter |
Procurement Outsourcing in Manufacturing Large manufacturers helped lead the procurement outsourcing market to 30% growth in 2008, according to a recent study. |
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. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Oshkosh Opens Procurement Office in Shanghai Oshkosh Corp., a manufacturer of specialty vehicles and vehicle bodies, recently opened an Asia Procurement Center in Shanghai, China. |
Global Services
August 29, 2007
Deborah Kops |
It's Greek to Me One company's multitower contract is another's bundled deal. Are process and functional outsourcing synonymous? Whats the difference between shared services and captives? Why can't the industry use the same terminology? |
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. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
David Blanchard |
The Biggest Challenges Facing Manufacturers -- IndustryWeek's 2008 Salary Survey Responses Offshore competition. Finding and retaining skilled labor. Rising costs. Government regulations. Sound familiar? Manufacturing managers share many of the same headaches and confront common challenges. |
CFO
November 1, 2009
Alix Stuart |
Buy It for Me Companies are increasingly using third-party procurement services, even for essential purchases. |
