Most companies outsource to reduce costs, which creates value. But outsourcing also has significant impact on the departments left behind, creating even more value. Read the third installment in our series, Creating Value Through Outsourcing.
How does asset acquisition differ from outsourcing? Attorneys at Baker & McKenzie explain the legal nuances.
Imagine having a fully transportable, fast-speed, secure, wireless network that can immediately operate anywhere in the world. Predictions that such technology is still next generation are now history, and both government and commercial organizations are making a beeline for the system known as UNIPOP
Even though Quicksilver, a fashion retailer, was keeping up with the latest hemlines, its was still using a manual system for inventory control dating back to the Nehru suit. Outsourcing to KWI brought the retailer up to date.
Having doubled its size in one year, Rural Cellular Corporation found it had outgrown its human resources and financial services applications. Outsourcing its hosting and applications to an ASP solved the problem.
What makes an outsourcing relationship work? A perfectly executed contract is NOT the answer. An outsourcing arrangement is a long-term relationship whose expectationss and attitudes must be realistic. Here’s how to do it right.
Are you considering implementing or divesting a shared services strategy? This paper provides key success/failure factors for internal shared services groups. It also presents a decision-making approach to determine whether a company should use shared services or an outsourcing strategy to meet specific business requirements.
A property and casualty insurance company wanted to enter the financial services fray and service its high end clients. And it was in a hurry, since the baby boomers are focusing on their retirement years now. Outsourcing this potentially risky new area brought big rewards to both supplier and buyer.
In 2001, a year that many dotcoms and other technology-related companies suffered hard times, Portera enjoyed 125 percent revenue growth with 121 new deals. Read how this ASP, which provides professional services automation, is not only surviving, but thriving.
Everest Group, a strategic sourcing advisory firm, continues to expand its international influence with the addition of a Canadian office.
BP, one of the world’s largest companies, considers it a best practice to outsource as many non-core processes as possible. But outsourcing HR was considered a crucial component of its organizational transformation. Here’s the story of how a groundbreaking deal successfully achieved objectives.
As a call center service provider, you spend $10,000 training an employee to handle complicated financial services and insurance calls. How do you keep them from leaving? ARO found a way to retain these hard-to-find, licensed employees: let them work-at-home. This kind of continuity is exactly what its buyers want.
The cost of human capital is so large that it stymies some companies from being able to achieve their growth initiatives. Outsourcing truly makes a difference, as in this story of how a medical billing company handled the challenge and ensured HIPAA compliance at the same time.
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