Cloud, virtualization, automation and mobility have fundamentally impacted the way businesses operate; yet many IT departments maintain the same roles and organizational structures that they’ve had for the past 15 years. And, for a lot of companies, that’s making IT
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The most urgent challenge of 2012 in the retail space was consumers’ rapidly growing mobility and digital empowerment. Retailers responded by devising new ways to attract, engage and retain these droves of customers and meet their fleet-footed demand for products
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Outsourcing the back office has been around for decades. But today there is a new way service providers are actually charging for these BPO services. It’s called outcome-based pricing. “Outcome-based pricing is a growing trend,” observes Dennis Winkler, head of
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These days you can bet on just about anything. Now an HR outsourcer has something new to wager on: how much weight you will lose. HealthyWage is betting on the scientifically proven fact that people who receive financial incentives are
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Not too long ago, customer care—the proverbial contact center—was regarded as a necessity. It was corporate overhead; operational in nature, something that fulfilled a customer-facing function, much like express lane checkers at a grocery store or tellers at a bank.
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Colliers International, a commercial real estate firm, faced this business challenge daily: one of its brokers based in Asia wanted to do a deal with a broker based in the USA to lease two floors of a building in Europe.
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For governments, it is imperative to bring down the costs of administering a growing number of public services. Since the 1800s, governments have funded law enforcement, water, electricity, town planning, health services, public transport and education. Today, governments must also
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Outsourcing processes are well-established and well-embedded in today’s organizations. That’s because the history of outsourcing is fairly rich — some global airlines like British Airways were outsourcing their business processes to companies in New Delhi in the 1980s. Yet, there
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Outsourcing Center Announces Winners of 17th Annual Outsourcing Excellence Awards Events to be held May 9th in Irving, TX DALLAS, April 8, 2013 ─ Outsourcing Center, the leading resource of outsourcing best-practice information, announced winners of the
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A decade or so after offshoring became a viable business option, a new outsourcing practice is currently emerging. Some American buyers are adding IT or BPO Tier 2 service providers to their provider mix. “Now I always plan on having
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