Claus-Peter Sommer and Zachary Misko of KellyOCG say the recruitment process outsourcer has seen more opportunities in the last eight weeks than in the previous 18 months. Companies are taking a fresh look at their hiring processes now so they are prepared when the next hiring crush arrives. The executives describe how RPO is driving this metamorphosis.
A 2009 BDO Seidman study of American chief financial officers in the high-tech industry predicted there will be a decline in offshoring in 2009. The new hot location: the United States. Read why.
Learn how you can find and maintain a competitive advantage beyond price by automating document-intensive business processes – such as invoice processing and procurement operations – on behalf of clients with demanding SLAs.
It’s no surprise a lot of clients want to rapidly and dramatically reduce their cost by 25 percent or more, reports Dr. Toshiharu Mogi, group head, Consulting Services. Since capital is difficult to find, he says companies now seek an enterprise-wide solution to gain productivity improvements. He describes nine.
Outsourcing Center studied 42 outsourcing relationships to determine success factors based on characteristics the buyers liked about their service providers. The study revealed some significant findings around which both buyers and providers may want to shift some focus.
Fletcher-Terry felt pressure from lower-cost competitors just as its manufacturing costs were going up. It knew it had to outsource, but its manufacturing volumes were low. It struck a unique deal with iSUN; it consolidated several lines to generate the volumes its outsourcer required to preserve margins and keep costs down.
In today’s economy, the majority of companies are cutting back to survive the downturn. But Alejandro Graham and Roger Pena are bucking the trend and starting a new company. Their BPO delivery center in Managua, Nicaragua, opens this month. Here is why they feel confident they will succeed.
Mitek Systems had a great idea: the applications developer wanted to turn camera phones into scanning devices so customers could make payments and deposit checks. However, the company lacked the internal staff to develop the application which had to work on four disparate systems. Outsourcing was the answer.
Many companies only do SOA testing at primitive levels, not testing the different components or services in SOA that must integrate. This insufficient, piecemeal approach to testing can create the risk of costly problems in SOA deployment. This paper describes Wipro’s SOA testing solution that holistically addresses all of the challenges that companies currently encounter [...]
Outsourcing end-to-end Order-to-Cash may deliver greater value than outsourcing specific functions. Because of the impact that OTC has on an organization’s competitive position, outsourcing is more than a cost play: it can be a strategic advantage.
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Learn why employee and leadership development programs are a top priority at successful companies – especially in tough economic times – the difficult questions CEOs and business owners must consider surrounding performance management, and the role an HR organization must play in ensuring that learning and development initiatives connect with the success of the business.
Adding scope to an outsourcing contract, whether it occurs before contract end or at the scheduled time for renewal, is a tactic that makes the deal more mutually beneficial over time. Outsourcing Center studied 92 relationships to identify the drivers for adding scope. The study also identified a key factor in enabling the scope-expansion decision.
Even though Delta outsourced its HR, it kept recruiting in house. But when it merged with Northwest, it turned to PeopleScout, an RPO, to recruit hard-to-find talent like flight attendants with foreign languages skills and good customer service people.
Eric Rea, president of se2, believes outsourcing may be one of the best ways for insurance companies to survive the current difficult times. He sees them as a call to action to make the necessary changes to an outmoded business model. se2 even has an innovative way to finance the transition.
New members of an auditing team faced their first audit: testing the accuracy of year-end physical inventory counts at a cookie manufacturer. They made their way around raw cookie dough and chocolate chips stacked on large shelves 60 feet in the air. But the factory was in Second Life, a virtual world Web site; it is part of a new learning offering from ACS.
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