Our experts predict several areas of the industry will experience significant growth over the next five years. Reverse outsourcing, verticalization, emerging markets, business analytics, healthcare, transportation, and ERP are some of the areas that will enjoy increased attention. Industry trends Andrew Pery, Chief Marketing Officer, Kofax, says reverse outsourcing will pick up steam. This trend [...]
A new, more strategic outsourcing model is necessary for speeding time to market yet also limiting the development cost of new products. It requires a different kind of thinking, communicating, and strategizing. Here’s how to leverage this new model for competitive advantage.
Northern Arizona Healthcare wanted to become one of the top three hospitals in Arizona. Today its executives believe it is as good as any hospital in America. Its new IT system provides easy-to-access, real-time data for its medical staff. The hospital established a $1 million annual bonus if Perot Systems met four stringent financial criteria in its revenue cycle work.
Springhill Medical Center hired Eclipsys to overhaul its IT. Medication errors fell 80 percent and infection rates fell by two-thirds. ER customer satisfaction soared from 11 to 92 percent. System availability went from 56 to 99.999 percent. And the new electronic medical records helped the Alabama hospital weather Hurricane Katrina.
Before outsourcing, the medical center sent printing off site, relinquishing control. Then it outsourced to Xerox Corporation. As a result, there’s more money for better patient care, and the hospital is more competitive.
An internal audit revealed Johnson & Johnson needed better telecom management. It outsourced North America first, then took the learnings global. Here is its story.
Remote infrastructure management outsourcing has evolved to meet buyers’ needs, planting the seeds for innovative solutions to today’s tricky IT challenges. Ramachandran Srinivasan, member of the Wipro Council for Industry Research, explains the next phase of evolution looking beyond IT infrastructure management. For more information on the Research Council, visit www.wipro.com/industryresearch or email industry.research@wipro.com.
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.
The U.S. economic problems have impacted outsourcing in several ways, as has the increased focus on innovation and R&D in outsourcing arrangements. Both are affecting the initial stages of outsourcing decisions. Here’s a look at these trends and how they may affect your company.
After Hurricane Katrina, Touro Infirmary’s IT department had to get the IT infrastructure up and running amid the devastation. Siemens stepped in to help even before the two signed a contract so the hospital could reopen. Today the IT department is working on projects like electronic medical records and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) that would have been impossible before.
U.S. News & World Report named Harvard Pilgrim Health Care the No. 1 commercial health plan for the last three years. That’s a dramatic recovery from the deathbed days of 1999 when the insurance company lost $227 million and fell into receivership. Outsourcing was the transfusion it needed.
Pharmaceutical sales reps must now be much more efficient at displaying marketing information and retrieving data relevant to a particular physician because they are allowed less time with physicians. Now there’s a cutting-edge closed-loop marketing mobile solution that runs untethered from networks, is available in an SaaS model, and ensures it delivers the content most relevant to a particular physician.
Hospitals are in a highly competitive market, and consumers now expect services that extend beyond quality patient care. Read about the valet and hotel-like concierge services that one outsourcing provider offers and how it benefits patients, their families and friends, hospital employees — and the hospital itself.
When Al Porco became CIO of the Central Brooklyn Family Health Network, the IT department was in need of an overhaul. It didn’t have the tools, infrastructure, or processes to even make a dent. Working with CompuCom, the healthcare facility is now on the cutting edge. This is the story of its metamorphosis.
How do buyers and suppliers structure healthy outsourcing relationships? What steps should they take to avoid the doom loop? Siemens Medical Solutions’s Jim Way shares his insights.
The state of Ohio decided to outsource its administration of Workers’ Comp managed care. CareWorks wanted the work but had to outsource to meet the state’s requirements. Eleven years later, CareWorks still has that business and has become one of the largest providers of workers’ comp services in the U.S., thanks to outsourcing.
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