Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Don’t fire your ad agency, but do consider outsourcing any marketing function you can reduce to a template. Learn how technology provides real numbers for smarter marketing decisions.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Four managerial concerns arise during a recession, which significantly impact the buyer and provider. A Stanford academic shares mitigation techniques.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Every penny counts. CA restructured 30 offices worldwide in just 90 days. The savings went to the bottom line when the company reported its year-end results to Wall Street.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
A lot of small business owners are great at their business but not at handling their finance and accounting processes. This causes them to make poor decisions that could sink their business. Here’s a flexible outsourced solution for this process, and it’s totally geared to small businesses.
Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer
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.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
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.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
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.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Software service providers in Eastern Europe are at a crossroads. Here’s a view of the current and future perspectives, advice on selecting a provider, and how to tell if an outsourcing provider is a follower or a leader.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The SaaS model has now been applied to a supply chain, warehousing, and inventory management solution. It’s cost-effective, flexible, has a quick implementation, and resolves all the challenges that 3PLs and their customers face.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
New influences on outsourcing in 2009 include such factors as SOA, green IT, and the convergence of technology and business processes. Each will impact the value proposition and decision making. Here are the insights that will help to prepare your company for these impacts.
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