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What is Outsourcing?

Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer

Outsourcing: Leveraging External Expertise for Business Optimization in a Competitive Landscape Outsourcing, defined as the delegation of a business process to an external service provider, has long been a prevalent practice among various organizations. By outsourcing certain aspects of their operations, companies can focus on their core competencies while relying on specialized expertise for other …

Top 9 Innovation Trends in Outsourcing for 2015

Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer

Robotics, Analytics or Multi-channel enagagement? This report explores the innovative practices businesses are implementing in their outsourcing agreements. It is based on 100 in-depth interviews with senior outsourcing buyers. More than four fifths (83%) of buyers say they have experienced innovation in their outsourcing relationships Nine in ten (92%) say their outsourcing partners want to …

How to Launch Successful HRO Initiatives Using Proven Processes by a BPO Innovator

Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer

How do you launch successful HRO initiatives? How can CPOs effectively make the right choices in selecting a solution that supports multiple geographies, languages, and aptly balance strategic big-picture directives with tactical resilience in prioritizing the new era customer-experience sentiment(s)? Furthermore, how can a BPO provider manage HR activities on a global scale without losing control …

Why Financial Regulations Drive Big Data

Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer

How do financial regulations drive big data? Between asset bubbles and other threats, new regulations force financial institutions to do everything from vetting counterparties against “black lists” of banned entities to real-time global fraud detection. Paper-based processing, siloed product and customer information, manual workflows, and hard-coded business rules can’t keep up. Achieving and proving compliance …

CyberSecurity Professionals and Compliance Officers at Odds Over Cloud Security

Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer

Enterprise IT and compliance groups agree on one thing for certain: their cloud environments could use some work on the security front. Less than half of the 1,018 IT security practitioners and enterprise compliance officers surveyed by the Ponemon Institute, which conducts independent research on privacy, data protection and information security policy, believe their organizations …

Maximizing Healthcare Payment Automation | White Paper

Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer

More than half of the transactions within the US healthcare industry are still paper-based. In addition, there is a processing lag if the payment is paper and the remittance is electronic. Several major challenges plague the healthcare industry’s quest to automate the payments process, and many healthcare providers, billing companies, and banks serving healthcare providers …

Leveraging Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) Best Practices to Attain Organizational Maturity | White Paper

Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer

In order to be competitive today, companies must actively listen to their customers and innovate quickly in response to new challenges, customer needs, and business opportunities. This paper discusses how to achieve a higher level of organizational maturity by leveraging the best practices of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library.

EY and Farmland Sign Joint Venture. White Paper Download

Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer

The Historical Significance of Joint Ventures In an era where the business landscape is continually evolving, joint ventures have emerged as a pivotal strategy, especially when navigating the intricate corridors of IT outsourcing requires Outsourcing Contract innovation. These collaborations, reminiscent of historical partnerships like King Arthur and Merlin or Lewis and Clark, are more than …

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