Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Three Indian suppliers joined Tier 1. Suppliers made some critical purchases. Microsoft and SAP embraced outsourcing. And then the hurricanes blew in. Editor Beth Ellyn Rosenthal recounts thirteen events that swept the outsourcing world in 2005.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
When Sunoco decided to transform its IT infrastructure, it performed 90 percent of its IT services in-house. After an honest assessment of its deficiencies, the refiner decided to outsource 90 percent of its infrastructure to multiple suppliers. The key to that successful transformation was changing how Sunoco defined the work, according to Tim Murtha. From his new book.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
The Land Registry wanted to add PCs to its 24 offices throughout the UK in just eight months. It formed a public/private partnership with HP to get the job done. Outsourcing, however, brought even more benefits to the government agency.
Eric Schoeniger, Business Writer
Outsourcing is sometimes a four-letter word in unionized industries. Yet for many utilities, strategic outsourcing can result in a clear competitive advantage that benefits management and labor alike.
John Harney, Business Writer
Aerospace original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are driving multiple aspects of plane manufacture up the supply chain to suppliers that can perform those tasks better and cheaper.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
An ASP joins with a state university to create a new type of executive training. One result: employers can monitor their employee data like their stock prices, thanks to the technology powering the Learning Leaders Forum.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
DuPont promised it would deliver its Online Fabric Library at a trade show in Paris. The original developer dropped out three months before the deadline. DuPont turned to Freeborders, a supplier with offices in China. The Chinese team finished the project early. Read why China is becoming an offshore hot spot.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
This issue our Other Than India series focuses on Northern Ireland. Liberty Mutual created a captive in Belfast for applications development during the dot com boom when programmers were in short supply. Today the insurance company has 160 people there who can easily travel to Boston when necessary.
Ulad Radkevitch
Inspired by Indian success, other countries are attempting to find their own niches in IT outsourcing. This story on Belarus is the second in a series on offshore locations other than India.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
VoIP slashed turnover and capital costs at a national call center operation without sacrificing voice quality. Five9’s ASP solution sounds good to customers. Third in a series about this new technology.
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