The research examines the state of outsourcing in the ISV sector, including when, where and why companies choose to outsource software development as well as to identify best practices that would ease and guide ISVs through various stages of their outsourcing engagement cycle.
The Netherlands is experiencing a shortage of IT engineers, so ISM eCompany, an Internet solution provider, had to find alternatives to hiring locally. The company looked at 20 countries and came up with India, China, and Ukraine as the top three locations to set up a captive operation. Ukraine turned out to be the best option. Here’s why.
Outsourcing Center’s study of 86 relationships participating in the 2007 Outsourcing Excellence Awards program revealed several significant benchmarks. A major finding: buyers felt cultural fit and a partnering relationship approach were a major key to success; they used them as supplier-selection criteria more than in the past decade of the awards relationships.
Charmant’s existing payroll software was outmoded, hard to use, and not integrated into its time and attendance system, which created challenges for the eyewear distributor’s two-person human resources department. The HR manager staked his job on an outsourcing solution . . . which worked.
When much of your income is directly generated by your retail Web site, and it crashes unexpectedly during the busiest time of the year, how do you prevent that from happening again? You find the right outsourcing provider.
Stiff competition from Wal-Mart placed the onus on Family Dollar to overhaul its IT, database, and application management processes if it were to continue growing. It made a couple of furtive attempts before finding the right outsourcing provider. Here is its story about shopping for the right supplier.
Online customers communicate through email. But some want to do things the old-fashioned way–they want to talk to a real person about their needs. Small entrepreneurs with day jobs can’t answer their calls during the workday. Outsourcing provides a professional alternative.
An investor’s guide to business process outsourcing (BPO) economics – How to assess technology choices’ impact on company value.
Examine how healthcare can proactively support patient-focused care using technology services that enable predictive analysis.
Outsourcing Center studied the risk-mitigation efforts of 40 offshore outsourcing relationships participating in the 2007 Outsourcing Excellence Awards program. This paper discusses the best practice strategies customers put in place to ensure greater return on investment by mitigating risks in the areas of transition, workforce attrition, communications, and cultural gaps.
To meet today’s demands for quality HR services, Human Resources departments increasingly rely on outsourcing partnerships. Learn how your peers define quality in working with an HR outsourcing provider and the impact on your organization’s success.
Conventional offshoring of applications can take you only so far. It can decrease your costs, but it can’t increase your power. The time is right to explore new ways to achieve more value from your business applications.
This paper discusses how operational excellence is essential to driving greater business value through outsourcing.
Manufacturing companies must grow to remain competitive, yet executives at many large, global companies face obstacles and uncertainty when it comes to product innovation, operational excellence and customer growth and retention – three areas they must improve continuously in order to grow revenue. Capgemini surveyed manufacturing executives about these challenges and found that only about [...]
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