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Archive for April, 2007

Outsourcing HR Helps Brokerage Firm Attract Top Talent | Article

Outsourcing HR Helps Brokerage Firm Attract Top Talent | Article

BTIG, an outsourcing brokerage firm, offers high-priced traders to smaller hedge funds and family-owned funds–customers who otherwise could not afford them. To maintain high-priced staff, BTIG needs to give them the same level of benefits their peers are enjoying. Outsourcing to Gevity allowed it to do this and help the company grow, too.

Michael Sternklar, Executive VP, HR Services, Fidelity Employer Services Company | Article

Michael Sternklar, Executive VP, HR Services, Fidelity Employer Services Company | Article

Michael Sternklar, the Executive Vice President at Fidelity’s HR Services, is an HRO pioneer, engineering one of the industry’s first deals. Read about the importance of the color gray, his passion for race horses, and his HRO predictions for the next five years.

The Convergence of Healthcare and Financial Services | Article

The Convergence of Healthcare and Financial Services | Article

Consumer-directed healthcare is driving a convergence of technologies and business processes in the healthcare and financial services industries. This convergence is causing change in several business processes for both industries. Here’s a look at the trends, who’s driving the changes, and who benefits.

Hosted Instant Messaging Provider Improves Financial Firms’ Real-Time Communications | Article

Hosted Instant Messaging Provider Improves Financial Firms’ Real-Time Communications | Article

Grace Financial Group, a securities broker-dealer, had a big problem: the exploding use of Instant Messaging (IM), a useful tool that presented a myriad of under-addressed security, regulatory, and confidentiality problems. The small firm had neither the human nor financial resources to deal with these challenges, so it outsourced the task. The result: it replaced chaos with order, compliance, and security.

Outsourcing Allows Mid-Sized Drug Store Chain to Compete with Large National Chains | Article

Outsourcing Allows Mid-Sized Drug Store Chain to Compete with Large National Chains | Article

How can a regional drug store chain, with just 68 stores in two states, compete with national chains like Walgreen’s or CVS that seemingly have stores on every corner? By outsourcing its retail IT, that’s how.

How a Manufacturer Created a Global Help Desk in Three Languages | Article

How a Manufacturer Created a Global Help Desk in Three Languages | Article

Change often allows companies to rethink the current ways of doing things. A move caused Essilor, a French eyeglass manufacturer, to consolidate its help desks on two continents into one global point of contact in Brussels.

Managed Services IT: Helping Caldwell Memorial Hospital become the Hospital of the Future | White Paper

Managed Services IT: Helping Caldwell Memorial Hospital become the Hospital of the Future | White Paper

Small Community Hospital Leverages Managed Services to Bolster IT and Compete with Larger Health Systems

How to Kill HRO | White Paper

How to Kill HRO | White Paper

What happens if you forget the economics of HR operations, and obliterate standardization? It is becoming increasingly apparent to the general public that the old “lift & shift” approach to Human Resources Outsourcing (HRO) is a perilous game. Read what SAP has to say.

The Deal Zone:  Getting Real About IT Outsourcing Agreements | White Paper

The Deal Zone: Getting Real About IT Outsourcing Agreements | White Paper

There are handbooks and summits to help you learn about the Outsourcing Life Cycle. There are consultants who put their knowledge at your disposal to formulate requirements, advise which terms and conditions to include in agreements, and negotiate deals on your behalf. All of which make it straightforward to develop an outsourcing agreement, right? Learn [...]

Critical Success Factors in Selecting an IT Infrastructure Provider | White Paper

Critical Success Factors in Selecting an IT Infrastructure Provider | White Paper

Considering outsourcing your IT infrastructure? Verizon Business defines measurable business objectives to help recognize the value of outsourcing and the ROI for your enterprise, as well as outlining provider selection criteria.

Managed Services IT: Providing a Strategic Advantage for Altoona Regional Health System | White Paper

Managed Services IT: Providing a Strategic Advantage for Altoona Regional Health System | White Paper

Siemens Helps Altoona Regional Health System Increase the Value of its IT