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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
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. |
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. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Speaking Out on Outsourcing Study shows more companies are now willing to outsource procurement tasks. |
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 |
Bank Technology News
February 2002
Joseph McKendrick |
Leave Computing to Us Outsourcing hits its stride in banking... |
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. |
Bank Technology News
December 2004
Holly Sraeel |
Outsourcing Gets a Closer Look. But is It Different? The strategic value of outsourcing has always been the source of some debate in banking. The question is, "Is it different than in years past?" Good question, and the answer depends on the size of institution. |
Global Services
September 25, 2008 |
Sales Strategies to Succeed in a Tough Economy The basics of selling and account management do not change in a tough economy. Regardless of the level of business economic conditions, the selling teams in service provider companies only need to make some tactical adjustments to reach their revenue goals. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 19, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
HP's Purchase of EDS May Have Minimal Impact on Financial Services HP reached a definitive agreement to acquire Plano, Texas-based technology services and outsourcing provider EDS in a deal worth more than $13.9 million. |
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. |
Bank Technology News
January 2003
Holly Sraeel |
What's Out Is Now In. Banks Get Help from The Outside. You know things are changing when even Citigroup -- a shop that once prided itself on proprietary technology innovation almost as much as its banking business -- goes to the outside for help in solving IT challenges and reconciling years of merger-related technology nightmares. |
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. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Bob Cecil |
Deals for the Next Decade of Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Increased buyer savvy paves the way for notable shifts in deal structure. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2010 |
Knowledge-Based Outsourcing: Driving Deeper Insights Outsourcing is fairly commonplace in the world of pharma. Tracking, monitoring, and trend evaluation is not enough. Companies must now do more than assess what happened and why. |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
David I. Sheinfeld |
The Commoditization Of F&A Outsourcing With finance and accounting outsourcing providers cropping up on every street corner, the pressure is on for companies to distinguish themselves and their offerings to stay competitive. |
Insurance & Technology
September 28, 2009
Nathan Conz |
Xerox To Acquire ACS for $6.4 Billion Xerox Corporation has announced that it has entered an agreement to acquire Affiliated Computer Services, a large business process outsourcing firm. |
Insurance & Technology
June 16, 2004
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Gaining the Outsourcing Edge Whether they consider outsourcing applications, infrastructure or business processes, insurers have a myriad of reasons to contract out portions of their operations. |
InternetNews
January 9, 2008
Larry Barrett |
Outsourcing Market Will Remain Robust in 2008 Gartner predicts an 8.1 percent increase in outsourcing spending this year. |
Global Services
December 7, 2008
Dinesh Goel |
Outsourcing in 2009: Uncertain As Never Before Apart from budgetary reductions, there will be actions planned on the part of the customers to get a bigger bang for the buck or more value for money. |
Global Services
September 14, 2007
Sreenivasan Radhakrishnan |
What's Next in the ADM Market? The change in the growth paradigm in the global application development and maintenance outsourcing segment and its implications for buyers and suppliers. |
Global Services
December 2, 2008
Paul Roehrig |
New Market Shifts Will Drive: Next Generation IT-Services Outsourcing Today's turbulent business environment can all but paralyze enterprise planning. IT faces this impact as much as any other business function, but the reality is that commerce must continue |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Menzigian et al. |
Outsourcing Order-to-Cash & Procure-to-Pay For finance and accounting outsourcing, an understanding of Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay unlocks new opportunities to create business impact. |
HRO Today
Dec 2007/Jan 2008
Monica Barron |
Optimism in the HRO Market With demand for outsourced services underserved and a new crop of providers ready to enter the market, look for growth to rebound in the new year. |
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. |
Global Services
July 11, 2008
Lisa Ross |
Trends in Pricing of FAO Contracts Finance and accounting outsourcing contract pricing is less standard and more case-by-case. Thus pricing is the most debatable part of such contract discussions. |
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. |
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 |
Global Services
December 2, 2008
Imrana Khan |
What'll the New Year Bring for Outsourcers? Outsourcing will continue to be a lever for transformation. Adding business value will become the norm. Services providers will be pressed to drive business transformation that creates sustainable value for their customers |
Global Services
October 31, 2008
Mike Beals |
Governance Tools Can be a Game Changer A successful outsourcing initiative requires the implementation of a disciplined outsourcing lifecycle methodology. To make this methodology work, both the customer and the service provider must together design an approach to govern the relationship using the right governance tools and guidelines |
CFO
November 1, 2009
Alix Stuart |
Buy It for Me Companies are increasingly using third-party procurement services, even for essential purchases. |
InternetNews
August 29, 2005
Tim Gray |
Financial Service Providers Should Outsource More To improve the bottom line, financial firms should send IT work out. |
HRO Today
April 2008
Sak & Grande |
The Year of Mid-Market HRO: Contracting that's Less Adversarial The age of broad-scope, mid-market HRO has arrived; HR outsourcing buyers and providers find themselves on new ground as the market moves into an era of collaborative contracting. |
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? |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Ross & Madden |
New Dynamics Emerging In the Mid-market FAO Landscape Outsourcing companies are increasingly seeking new business opportunities in what is called the "mid-market." |
PC Magazine
October 19, 2004
John Clyman |
Business IT: Rent or Buy? As a technology or business manager, how can you cut through the hype to tell whether and where application outsourcing might be right for your organization? And what caveats should you keep in mind? |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2005
Tom Lovelock |
Outsourcing Goes the Distance In partnering with the right electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider, many aerospace and defense prime contractors are looking beyond the task-based approach, to a deeper and more strategic level of outsourcing. |
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
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. |
HRO Today
April 2008
Andy Teng |
As HRO Market Evolves, Renewals Reflect Changes With the benefit of hindsight, buyers and providers head into the next generation of HR outsourcing with clearer goals and expectations regarding their enterprise engagements. |
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
January 1, 2008
Todd Lefkowitz |
Answering Services Call Regardless of the IT infrastructure outsourcing option a customer organization chooses, one of the most important elements in the partnership is the communication on managing risk, optimally using technology and enhancing efficiency. |
Global Services
July 29, 2007
Deborah Kops |
Upward, Onward, Onsource! The magnifying glass is on the performance of the estimated +2,500 shared-services operations worldwide as they stabilize and reach performance maturity. What's next for these business support units as the pressures of competition and globalization demand more. |
Global Services
August 14, 2008
Phil Fersht |
Dodging the Outsourcing Landmines With growing reliance on their providers to deliver, greater scrutiny by boards and their auditors, and such, driving change deep into firms, execs governing outsourcing relationships have become a lightning rod for criticism. |
IndustryWeek
September 14, 2011 |
Time To Tell Your CPOs to Collaborate With Suppliers How to create value by collaborating inside and outside the organization. |
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. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2009
Nick Zubko |
Cutting to the Core Consolidating suppliers can help manufacturers add value to their supply chain, but not without a good plan to make it work. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Walking into Walls Learn to overcome these five obstacles to building a reliable supplier network. |
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. |
