TechGuard had trouble recruiting because of its lack of benefits. It outsourced HR to solve that problem. Then it learned HR outsourcing provided a lot more valuable benefits. Here’s one firm’s story.
The Chicago Park District teamed up with Unisys to help guide its future evolution. The Chicago Park District successfully leveraged technology to bring value to the day-to-day operations requires a comprehensive technology solution offering increased availability, reliability, flexibility and scalability.
Outsourcing has been one of the most important factors in the industry turnaround, providing an opportunity to remove large amounts of fixed cost while drawing on the expertise of the outsourcer to update the airline’s technology base. Read why airlines are outsourcing important business processes.
Today farmers can harvest the information they need for their agribusinesses using an unlikely resource, their Internet Service Provider (ISP), who partnered with an ASP to grow a useful portal.
The City of Charlotte recognized that creating a single point of-contact for end-user IT support would not only reduce costs and enhance the quality of service to end-users, but would allow the City to better leverage technology across all business units.
Outsourcing the routine details of recruiting allows GE’s HR department to stay strategic. Yoh HR Solutions also takes care of GE’s federal compliance folder, a task that can have major repercussions for employers if done improperly.
The pace of change in information and communication technology in education, including corporate learning programs, has been tremendously fast and has completely altered the teaching and learning process. Here’s the story of how one company used outsourcing to not only adapt to the changes but also manage to grow its business.
Continental Airlines has 1,500 remote workers. Outsourcing its remote telecom access saves at least $75,000 a month in connectivity costs. And the supplier offers better security.
Success Apparel, a children’s sportswear manufacturer in New York City, just wanted its phone system to work. Its phone system was dead for as long as three days as its local, long distance, and PBX supplier pointed fingers. Outsourcing all its telephony to a VoIP supplier solved the problem.
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.
Malmö Aviation, the second largest airline in Sweden, has a laser focus on customer service, which is run by its IT infrastructure. Outsourcing IT to Unisys allows the airline to serve its travelers instead of worrying about its servers. Now its growth pattern looks like a plane taking off.
Vanguard had hit a red light: it had to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The light changed to green when investors purchased its assets out of bankruptcy and outsourced its IT and IT-related business processes to Perot Systems, who cut its IT budget in half. Today Vanguard is driving in high gear and making money.
Hughes, America’s 15th largest ISP, outsourced a call center for inbound direct marketing. Today, half the company’s direct sales come from this outsourced relationship. Sales doubled while costs fell 30 percent. ACS turns 14 percent of these calls into sales, up from three percent. Increasing the conversion rate allows Hughes to do more marketing with the same dollars.
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.
INVISTA, which owns brands like Lycra, had promised the industry an online fabric library. The CEO had sent letters to thousands of companies announcing the system would go live by October 4. In June it discovered its supplier was failing. It hired Freeborders, whose teams in the US, Europe, and China delivered the library three weeks early.
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