Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
How much money do companies really save offshoring? This new study answers that question scientifically: 63 percent saved more than 30 percent and 14 percent banked more than 50 percent.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
A new Frost & Sullivan report has the answer: Over the last three years the high-cost nations sent 826,540 IT jobs to developing countries, creating an install base of 7,599,540 IT jobs in the developing countries it studied. India got a lion’s share of those jobs, but Poland was the fastest-growing offshore location for IT outsourcing. This comprehensive study supplies facts on offshore ITO.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
ComputerWire tracks outsourcing deals. Here’s the report card for 2004.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Locations like Brazil and Argentina may compare favorably with current offshoring favorites such as Delhi and Shanghai, a new study by global real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle found. Read about the up-and-coming offshore locations.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Datamonitor says India will continue to have the lion’s share of the call center market for the foreseeable future. But higher value transactions are going to South Africa. Read why.
Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer
More than 90 percent of financial executives labeled their outsourcing successful. But the big surprise was that cost savings are neither the primary motivation to outsource nor the biggest benefit perceived. At the end of the day, it’s all about customer satisfaction.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
A new study by the Conference Board and Accenture HR Services discovered four forces came together in 2004 to encourage governments to outsource HR. Here’s what’s happening.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Concluding our five-part series on what causes outsourcing arrangements to fail, we look at the picture from the opposite corner–the keys to success–with advice from 68 buyers and providers that achieved even more value outcomes and higher ROI than they anticipated at the outset.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
A new study by Oblicore found 59 percent of its respondents do not monitor their SLAs well. Yet 64 percent have added financial penalties if their suppliers do not perform.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Outsourcing Center has been studying the risks and causes of outsourcing failures. This article presents some of the findings from the Center’s 2004 survey on Leading Causes of Outsourcing Failures. This is the first in a series of five articles and several downloadable research papers on the topic of failure.
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