York Day School in California adopted solar power in a unique outsourcing relationship with Solar Power Partners, a finance company for solar projects, and Blueline Power, a solar power integrator. The relationship provides the school with electricity at a competitive rate guaranteed for 15 years. Outsourcing reduced the school’s carbon footprint and creates a progressive image, which helps with fundraising.
Offshore activities are nothing new for Europe. But what’s new is nearshoring is now starting to be internal to the EU, especially in Eastern Europe. Read why this is happening, what kinds of work are best for this region, and which suppliers are currently dominating the landscape.
When a legacy payroll system and its supplier became a burden to an Australian food company, it had to decide what to do: bring the process back in house or find an outsourcing partner. The company selected Aussiepay’s hosted ASP model. The result: the company cut its weekly payroll time in half and reduced administration tasks with self-service, in addition to being able to interface directly with government tax offices.
A medical manufacturing firm wasn’t getting the big orders because it couldn’t produce them at a competitive price. It decided to set up a captive. But where? It had three requirements: workers with medical manufacturing skills, a short plane ride from its Florida base, and solid infrastructure. Nicaragua fit the bill.
Virgin Atlantic, a long-haul airline, is known for thinking outside the box to enhance the in-flight experience. Less known is the way Virgin has applied similar innovation to its behind-the-scenes operations. Offshoring to WNS allowed the airline to consider business streams it had not previously imagined. And the cost differential allowed it to add more people to its call center to provide better service.
Although companies have spent millions on digitizing their documents, they still face a process bottleneck in trying to close sales and other contractual agreements because they have to revert back to a costly paper process to get the documents signed–and that could take days or weeks. Now there’s an SaaS solution that reduces the process to minutes, increases productivity and customer satisfaction, and dramatically takes costs out of the process.
This paper discusses how to best take advantage of automation to simplify your infrastructure, lower IT costs and create a highly optimized workplace.
90% of executives surveyed agree that managing documents throughout their lifecycle improves business performance, yet only 12% say they are effective at it. Download the survey report today and improve business performance.
Managing your ERP environment (SAP/Oracle) within an outsourcing model is a complex initiative and has its own challenges. This whitepaper will outline how you can meet these challenges and understand the nuances of managing your ERP environment within an outsourcing model.
For their relationship and work to date, Catalina Restaurants and Accenture BPO Services won this year’s HROA Middle Market Relationship of the Year award. The editors at HROA Connections endeavored to learn some of the secrets of this award-winning relationship in this interview for their monthly publication.
For CIOs intent on using IT to enable high performance for their organizations, industrializing the way they deliver applications to the business can achieve savings and business results–beyond those associated with low-cost labor through offshoring. This Accenture point of view explores in depth the benefits to industrializing and how leading companies are using it to [...]
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