Companies spent lots of money and almost as many hours transforming their applications for optimal performance. Phew! We’re done! Not so, says Ed Quinn, vice president, applications management, HP Enterprise Services. In his experience, corporations need to keep their newly transformed applications optimized. Senior Editor Beth Ellyn Rosenthal questioned him to find out how to [...]
The best outsourcing agreement for your organization is not necessarily the one with the lowest price. Your primary goal when negotiating and structuring an outsourcing contract is to develop an agreement that achieves your business objectives, not just on day one but throughout the entire term. To do this well, you must understand the overall [...]
Can you even remember what it was like to have to be in a “place” to make a call? When a flat tire meant a search for a pay phone? When email was something that accumulated between Friday and Monday, until the office computer was powered back on? It’s hard to believe that when the [...]
Definition: “Cloud computing provides on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that users can rapidly provision and release with minimum client or provider interaction.” — From Cloud Sourcing for the Corporation by Ben Trowbridge, CEO, Alsbridge “I think there will be an explosion” in the near term, predicts Steven Morris, senior [...]
By leveraging the huge amounts of data, organizations of all types can increase operational efficiency and quality, leading to cost and labor savings and a competitive edge, along with streamlines processes and a better ability to fight fraud. In this white paper, you’ll learn how organizations are managing and analyzing proliferating data and how these [...]
The big headline in BPO: The continuing global economic changes are causing a paradigm shift in the way organizations are doing business, according to Dinanath Kholkar, Head, BFS & INS, BPO Services, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). “Higher returns on investments, faster turnaround times and the need to reach out to emerging markets are the need [...]
Data continues to proliferate across all industries, making it necessary for organizations of all types to optimize their data center operations and develop data center management strategies in order to operate efficiently, remain competitive and successfully leverage their data. Read this white paper to learn how and why today’s organizations are currently approaching data center [...]
Manish Dugar, Sr VP Wipro BPO, shares his views on how Wipro is helping its customers do business better by leveraging BPO as a revenue enabler.
Webinar On Demand: Hear how some of world’s leading enterprises have leveraged a blend of domain knowledge, process re-engineering expertise and technology solutions to significantly enhance the way their organizations manage financial information and processes. You will explore how to leverage intelligent automation and active dashboards to: Minimize delay penalties and improve early payment discounts [...]
Despite quantum improvements to outsourcing deals and governance over the past 10 to 15 years, when it comes to achieving outsourcing excellence there’s still plenty of opportunity. Part of the challenge is that once the decision is made to outsource or change providers, the clock starts ticking….fast. It takes real discipline to know when to [...]
Wipro Voice: Dr. Anurag, CTO, Wipro Technologies Human resources, call centers, customer service, finance and accounting. Companies have offshored these processes for years. But what about research and development? Is it a good idea? How much of the R gets outsourced relative to the D? The burst of the economic bubble in 2008 led to [...]
Sweeping change is difficult for any organization. But in an industry such as insurance whose operations are tethered to a complicated aggregation of legacy systems, will the organization’s ability to adapt and embrace cloud-based technology be especially challenging? Cloud-based products represent the industry’s greatest opportunity to move the dial forward. Implementation of private or public [...]
Analytics. That is the new buzz word in outsourcing and particularly in workforce management. Managed services providers (MSP) rely on vendor management systems (VMS) to crunch the terabytes of data on a company’s global workforce—where they work, for how long and how much they cost. But is this really helpful? “Absolutely,” says Doug Leeby, president [...]
At the most basic level, the challenge with change management is that everyone knows it’s important, even that it’s make or break to the success of outsourcing engagements, but very few actually know what it is or how to do it. Even the most outsourcing-sophisticated organizations fall short in their change management activities. Sourcing change [...]
Wipro Voice: Manish Dugar, Senior Vice President, BPO Historically companies outsourced business processes to save money or gain process efficiency. But as service provider offerings and buyers matured, BPO can now become a revenue enabler, according to Manish Dugar, senior vice president, BPO. In some cases, old, outdated technology and antiquated processes in the back [...]
Outsourcing provides many benefits, including the realization of improved efficiency, speed and agility to deliver services. Unfortunately, research indicates that the ability to sustain high value realization over the complete life cycle of the outsourcing agreement is a major challenge. This paper discusses how clients and providers can shift their focus in order to minimize [...]
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