Many of the 92 team members of Hanson Mold operate machining centers, so they are either standing in place or seated all day. Ditto for the 140 employees of Horizon Software, who are glued to their computer screens the majority of the work day. Both companies provide healthcare benefits. They are committed to helping their employees become [...]
Deciding to outsource can be a tough decision for many companies. PUMA, the sport lifestyle company, had strong evidence it was time to stop doing things in house: A customer told the billing department he hated PUMA’s invoices. “The customer sent us a letter telling us whoever designed our invoices should be fired. We realized [...]
If one theme runs through the current presidential campaign in the U.S., it’s that the country needs fixing. That is the opposite of the mood of Indian business leaders at February’s meeting of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), according to Alsbridge CEO Ben Trowbridge. “There’s a great current of optimism in [...]
The payments system is not something you ordinarily think as outsourced. However, the moment somebody in your organization decides to receive a payment via an intermediary (lockbox, collection agent, bank, third-party providers of “receivables management” servicers and more) or make a payment via an intermediary (AP servicer, freight forwarder, procurement specialists or software and more) [...]
PDS Technical Services Inc. had a budget line item it was determined to fix: the specialty recruiting firm was paying $3 million a year in workers’ compensation costs. How could it cut that number? PDS, which likes to call itself “a project support company” because the company’s buyers generally hire its technical workers for specific [...]
Listen to the political rhetoric in the current U.S. presidential campaign and you would think offshoring is the key reason for the high American unemployment rate. Nowhere should this be more apparent than in manufacturing. However, a recent study by the Manpower Group, a provider of workforce solutions, explains the situation is far more nuanced. [...]
Companies spent lots of money and almost as many hours transforming their applications for optimal performance. Phew! We’re done! Not so, says Ed Quinn, vice president, applications management, HP Enterprise Services. In his experience, corporations need to keep their newly transformed applications optimized. Senior Editor Beth Ellyn Rosenthal questioned him to find out how to [...]
Definition: “Cloud computing provides on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that users can rapidly provision and release with minimum client or provider interaction.” — From Cloud Sourcing for the Corporation by Ben Trowbridge, CEO, Alsbridge “I think there will be an explosion” in the near term, predicts Steven Morris, senior [...]
Outsourcing providers have been offering their clients analytics services for at least 15 years. “But today the interest in analytics is completely unprecedented,” reports Pankaj Kulshreshtha, senior vice president, analytics and research at Genpact. Earlier, clients only considered a few specialized functions were appropriate for the ‘quants’; today it’s all functions, he notes. “Procurement, marketing [...]
The big headline in BPO: The continuing global economic changes are causing a paradigm shift in the way organizations are doing business, according to Dinanath Kholkar, Head, BFS & INS, BPO Services, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). “Higher returns on investments, faster turnaround times and the need to reach out to emerging markets are the need [...]
Indian BPOs got their start competing on price. Now there are geographies that offer even lower prices. At the same time, buyers’ shopping criteria includes more than just price. How are BPOs adopting to the new pressures? Here are four major world trends affecting Indian BPOs and their productivity goals. 1. The changing marketplace “The [...]
Wipro Voice: Dr. Anurag, CTO, Wipro Technologies Human resources, call centers, customer service, finance and accounting. Companies have offshored these processes for years. But what about research and development? Is it a good idea? How much of the R gets outsourced relative to the D? The burst of the economic bubble in 2008 led to [...]
Analytics. That is the new buzz word in outsourcing and particularly in workforce management. Managed services providers (MSP) rely on vendor management systems (VMS) to crunch the terabytes of data on a company’s global workforce—where they work, for how long and how much they cost. But is this really helpful? “Absolutely,” says Doug Leeby, president [...]
Applications have personalities? Yes, they do, according to HP Distinguished Technologist, E.G. Nadhan. Nadhan is the Lead Technologist for Global Strategic Capabilities within HP and the Chief Architect for HP’s Applications Process and Tools Framework. Nadhan explains that as HP helps its customers manage their applications, it is important to help the IT executives categorize [...]
Wipro Voice: A Discussion with Deepak Jain, Senior Vice President and Head of TIS “You can see computers everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” — Robert Solow, Economist The CEO wants to know how to transform IT from a cost center to a game changer. The CIO wants to run IT like a business. The [...]
Wipro Voice: A Discussion with KD Singh, Global Head of the ISV business “My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. More and more major businesses and industries are being [...]
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