IDC Study | Article
Outsourcing used to be about cost, capital and cash flow. Today, outsourcing is about strategy and execution. So says a just released study by IDC and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.
Tag: "business agility"
November 1, 2002 | 0 comments | Read More
Anchor for Agility | Article
When Nortel selected a service provider, the low cost offer did not prevail since Nortel wanted the best cultural fit. CSC won the deal after its negotiating team announced they would be the ones heading the account.
November 1, 2002 | 0 comments | Read More
If the Shoe Fits | Article
Building for Future Competition and Growth Dramatic technological changes now regularly unsettle our ways of doing business, and this trend promises to wreak even more havoc in the future as technological advances occur even more quickly. Future organizational success already depends on strategies to make companies more agile in their ability to change so that their competitors don’t pass them by. Where will your company be five years from now? Successful companies will have evolved to operate in fresh new, more effective ways. Motivational speaker and author, John L. Mason, advises people that if the shoe fits, they shouldn’t wear it, for they are not allowing room for growth. Companies that don’t change but continue to operate as they do today will become eccentric, for growth and success require change. To stay in the game, executives must decide to stop doing things the way they have always been done, realizing that organizations have limitations and can’t be good at everything. To
March 1, 2001 | 0 comments | Read More
From Suppliers to Sophisticated Shoppers | Article
When government agencies first started outsourcing, cost was the sole consideration. Over the last decade, however, cost is losing its market share as a reason to outsource, observes Adrian Moore, director of privatization and government reform for the Reason Public Policy Institute, a government think tank in Los Angeles, California.
September 1, 2000 | 0 comments | Read More
Partnership: More Than A Fancy Phrase | Article
Partnership: More Than a Fancy Phrase. One of the most telling changes in future outsourcing will be the reshaping of relationships as companies continue to move away from cost reduction as the single key driver.
February 1, 1998 | 0 comments | Read More
