Ritesh Idnani is the chief operating officer of Infosys BPO and one of the 15 members of the executive leadership team at the Infosys group of companies. He successfully helped scale Infosys’s BPO business from $43 million in FY 2005 to $427 million in FY 2010. Based in New York City, Idnani focuses on managing [...]
Outsourcing rookies, of course, face many challenges in achieving their desired return on investment because their deals often lack one or more elements that are foundational to success. And all outsourcing relationships encounter challenges that arise in unanticipated situations. But what about experienced buyers and relationships that are more mature? What issues arise in their [...]
Buyers of outsourcing services want their service providers to invest in technologies that bring continual improvement to the outsourced processes. Providers want to invest only where it is also beneficial to their margins in the long run. Therein lies a conflict. Are there reliable predictors of a buyer’s intent for a long-term, mutually beneficial relationship [...]
Ritesh Idnani is the chief operating officer of Infosys BPO and one of the 15 members of the executive leadership team at the Infosys group of companies. He successfully helped scale Infosys’s BPO business from $43 million in FY 2005 to $427 million in FY 2011. Based in New York City, Idnani focuses on managing [...]
Outsourcing Excellence Award – Service Provider Excellence Award: Most Consistent Business Impact: Genpact “Genpact and the bank’s relationship has really matured over the last couple of years and we are truly partnering to achieve the right outcomes for our business and customers.” – Top Four Australia Bank Criteria: The service provider had to: 1. Consistently [...]
Outsourcing Excellence Award – Service Provider Excellence Award: Best IT Enablement of BPO: Wipro “The accounts payable process required a renewed focus to improve the process maturity. We needed to increase working capital optimization, clear invoice backlogs and reduce exceptions and overall cycle time. This requires a suite of tools specifically designed to achieve these [...]
The existing technology market is being destroyed to make way for the new cloud services world. Cloud providers, leveraging virtualization, automation and their investments in infrastructure can provide a dizzying array of IT services from 30-75 percent cheaper than traditional IT providers. And they can do this using a variety of delivery models. That makes [...]
Outsourcing Excellence Award – Best Global Services: Carillion PLC and Accenture Carillion PLC is a leading support services company. It operates in a highly competitive industry where achieving its margin targets demands a rigorous approach to controlling costs and delivering profitable growth. Carillion’s disparate processes and underlying systems were a potential obstacle to that growth. [...]
Ben Trowbridge, CEO of Alsbridge, talks to Outsourcing Center Senior Editor Beth Ellyn Rosenthal about the radically changing ITO landscape. Trowbridge, who has just completed a new book, “Cloud Sourcing the Corporation,” discusses the creative destruction of the IT services market. He also provides tips for buyers on how to proceed while the market is [...]
Outsourcing Excellence Award — Most Collaborative: Barclaycard US and Firstsource “We are getting results that exceed our plan. By the end of the first year, performance of our former employees who are now on the Firstsource team was at or above what it was when we initiated the transition.” Brian Duffy, head of service and [...]
The bulk of most companies’ operational costs are in manpower, says Ragu Bhargava, CEO of Global Upside, Inc., a finance and accounting (F&A) service provider. That’s one of the reasons companies in all industries are increasingly bucking the long-held practice of retaining full-time F&A staff in house. Mountain View, Calif,-based Global Upside, Inc. provides services [...]
By now you’ve probably read at least one of the 1,300 plus articles penned about the recent Amazon Web Services service interruption (including mine). Treff LaPlante, CEO, WorkXpress, sees a silver lining in the thunderstorms surrounding this event. “Even though none of us wanted to see this happen, it has become a beneficial educational experience [...]
Winners of the 2011 Outsourcing Excellence Awards and Service Provider Excellence Awards enjoyed hearing about outsourcing best practices and sharing key insights during the day on April 27th. See the photos below of the black tie “Oscars” of Outsourcing celebration that evening, recognizing each of the winners’ unique accomplishments as they accepted this prestigious award [...]
While reducing cost is typically the primary benefit of outsourcing, you also want an outsourcing agreement that allows you to realize your immediate and long-term delivery needs, provides contract flexibility and ensures that you receive maximum value for the money you will be spending. To meet those objectives, pay careful attention to the five “gotchas” [...]
A recent CIO Roundtable sponsored by Alsbridge, Inc. resulted in several breakthroughs on adopting and implementing cloud computing. Every IT executive in the room had two things in common: (1) a driving need to explore and leverage cloud solutions and (2) lack of a clear way to validate the cloud offerings in the market and [...]
Ben Trowbridge responds Technology is great when it works. What does a buyer of cloud services do when something goes wrong, creating a service disruption? That question became a reality for users of Amazon Web Services on April 20. Its Northern Virginia data center suffered a service outage for its hosting service at 10:41 p.m. [...]
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