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 [...]
Elliot Clark discusses the increased interest in global solutions and the bundling of permanent and contingent labor.
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. [...]
Every company that relies on a large workforce has one thing in common – the desire to acquire and manage workers in a way that provides the most value without hurting the bottom line. But usually that is where the similarities end. Most companies have unique goals, objectives and challenges of varying complexities that require [...]
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 [...]
WNS is a leading global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company. Founded as British Airways’ captive back-office in 1996, WNS has today risen to a leadership position with more than 200 global clients, serviced by over 21,000 professionals across 23 global delivery centers worldwide, including Costa Rica, India, the Philippines, Romania, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom. [...]
What happens in an outsourcing relationship when the two partners are willing to go beyond each of their comfort zones to solve an intractable problem? Answer: a win-win for both partners as well as the relationship itself. This is the story of how Rio Tinto, a leading international mining group, and Infosys BPO, its outsourcing [...]
Ask 10 buyers of outsourcing services for their keys to success in communicating with their service providers, and you’ll hear 10 different answers because, of course, the effectiveness of communication depends on the individuals involved. Some will also say it depends on whether they’re communicating about day-to-day operations, conflicts or opportunities. Others will comment that [...]
Improving Processes, Going Offshore Best Ways to Reduce G&A Costs Outsourcing service providers servicing the midmarket (defined here as companies with $1billion to $3 billion in annual revenues) face challenges that differ from working with large corporate buyers. How do they provide the same type of services as they do for enterprises and stay profitable, [...]
The universal complaint about human resources outsourcing in general and RPO (recruitment process outsourcing) in particular has been that few if any service providers have both a local and global reach. It has been difficult to provide best-of-breed services in every location on the globe an outsourcing buyer may need. “RPO buyers have searched for [...]
Globalization has increased the level of competition; businesses need to be highly flexible, scalable, nimble, and responsive to customer demands. Businesses need a new set of capabilities to remain competitive. However these capabilities cannot be acquired cost-effectively in the traditional manner. There is need to go beyond and leverage alternate solution deployment and service delivery [...]
Have a PeopleSoft Upgrade in your Pipeline? If you’re considering upgrading your Oracle application, then this is a session not to be missed. Join Oracle On Demand in a “fire-side” chat with current Oracle On Demand customer HDR, Inc. Hear how they used Oracle On Demand as a best practice to ensure a successful PeopleSoft [...]
Change sometimes brings unintended consequences. When outsourcing relationships several years ago took on the characteristic of delivering services from one or more offshore locations, an unintended consequence was “talent wars” and attrition. Unmanaged attrition among a provider’s ranks leads to unsatisfactory service delivery and higher costs. How can the parties manage this dilemma? Should they [...]
Zalaris is a leading pan-Nordic provider of innovative and cost-effective HR Outsourcing (HRO), HR technology and HR consulting services to large Nordic and international customers. Our smartHR solution powered by SAP HR includes a full service range of comprehensive personnel administrative processes including payroll, employee help desk, talent management and analytics. As an SAP BPO [...]
More than half of the transactions within the US healthcare industry are still paper-based. In addition, there is a processing lag if the payment is paper and the remittance is electronic. Several major challenges plague the healthcare industry’s quest to automate the payments process, and many healthcare providers, billing companies, and banks serving healthcare providers [...]
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