No one wants to wait three months to be paid. The Department of Surgery outsourced its bill collection, which cut day in accounts receivable from 94 to 50. But the change wasn’t easy; the two partners had to change how the surgeons operated (their back office.)
Many companies don’t achieve the anticipated outcomes in their outsourcing initiatives because they don’t take the right steps up front. Here’s how the fifth-largest homebuilder in the United States built an outstanding outsourcing relationship that produced the outcomes the client wanted.
It’s no longer a quetion of whether to outsource, but how. This paper shows how to better manage strategic outsourcing partnerships to mitigate potential business risks; determine the right global delivery mix while optimizing your outsourcing workforce and measure results.
What drives HRO quality and how do you measure it? In this paper, we look at key drivers of successful HRO relationships and how clients and suppliers can work together to improve quality HR service delivery. Learn more by downloading this article from Fidelity Employer Services.
As Canada’s central bank, the Bank of Canada works to preserve the value of money by keeping inflation low. It also acts as the government’s fiscal agent. More than 400 employees worked on the retail debt program, consuming 85 percent of the bank’s IT capacity while not a core activity. Outsourcing to EDS was the answer. However, this assignment had some extra requirements.
It’s very possible for buyers to form highly successful relationships with a new provider after experiencing a failed relationship. But there are pitfalls. What are the best practices that ensure success in these situations the second time around? Here are some industry experts’ insights.
Move from ad-hoc, vendor management to a structured “sourcing management” strategy. Download the white paper by Oblicore, the leading provider of Service Delivery Management software.
Despite all of the industry hoopla regarding the growth of life-sciences outsourcing, only a small set of life-sciences organizations truly engage in outsourcing. Traditionally, these companies adopted a contracting model for staff augmentation for their clinical drug testing. Read why they must adopt an outsourcing model to create value.
The outsourcing industry is changing, and there are some new risks. This article is full of tips for mitigating risks in six elements of outsourcing.
Outsourcing, seen by some as a relinquishment of control over corporate activities, can provide distinct advantages to a company. Christian Marchetti, Managing Director, Accenture HR Services, and Alex Wilson, Group HR Director, BT, examine the role of outsourcing and how an outsourcing relationship can be effectively managed to enhance control?and help achieve high performance.
Squeezing a BPO service provider to get the lowest price may not generate sustainable economic value. Leveraging economies of scale, process optimization and accessing labor arbitrage will. This requires joint business and IT capabilities – from both you and your provider. Welcome to BPO 2.0. Read more.
BT was a plain old phone company. Then competition and the Internet changed telecommunication. Where was BT going to find the capital to fund the requisite new offerings? BT outsourced its HR to Accenture. Together the partnership transformed BT.
One of the victims of September 11 was the airline industry. Delta had to service its call center customers at a lower cost. The solution was offshoring. That decision turned out to be a lifeline when hurricanes hit the US last year, shuttering some US call centers. Wipro routed extra calls to Mumbai and Pune, stretching its resources to support the airline in its time of need.
Last year Citrix took a direct hit from Hurricane Wilma, shutting down the business for 15 days. But Citrix customers continued to receive their products because several Citrix employees set up shop in HP’s New Hampshire facility, the first time a customer actually moved in to run its business on HP’s systems.
Historically, 50 percent of ITO deals failed. Hugh McDonald was determined that his bank’s deal with EDS would not be in that category. So he created a governance model, which includes a lifecycle matrix, to guarantee outsourcing success. It worked! Here’s why.
This paper by examines challenges for offering services on a utility-based computing basis and looks at a case study of a service provider that was able to efficiently measure and report on services quality and costs with the Digital Fuel‘s SLA management software.
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