Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
A Scottish surgeon had a vision of being able to improve the health of people in Hong Kong by supplying them with cows’ milk kept free from contamination. To that end, in 1886, he and five Hong Kong businessmen incorporated Dairy Farm and imported a herd of dairy cattle in order to lower the price of milk, thereby increasing profits for company shareholders..
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Years ago, many organizations had software systems that were ‘nice to have.’ In today’s world, though, we need systems to help us compete in the marketplace more effectively. Software systems now have a major impact on our business and enable us to produce higher revenues, higher income, and higher market capitalization…..
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and BP Amoco (BPA) have embarked on a significant outsourcing collaboration that has the potential of being a watershed event.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Two current trends driving the growth of business process outsourcing (BPO) are the trend toward outsourcing of packaged software applications and the trend for end-to-end hosting management of those applications. Within BPO’s segment of the outsourcing industry are such critical, non-core functional transactional processes as payroll, payroll tax services, and benefits administration.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Purchasing and supply management affect much more than material and service flow, and current trends cast their role and importance in sharper focus than ever.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
It is an apt characterization that may be applied to the steep dilemmas that currently snag the efforts of the US federal government to increasingly implement competitive sourcing and privatization of public sector activities..
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
More and more, companies enter into outsourcing agreements as a strategy to remain competitive. But rapid technological advancements change the competition; hence, an essential element of an outsourcing agreement must be flexibility. G2R, which specializes in providing research and management consulting, assists end users and vendors in constructing effective sourcing agreements.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Industry studies reveal that most customers who become dissatisfied select another provider, rather than return the functions in-house. Stephen Fordham, Senior Director of Employee Care at Convergys Corporation.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Grading the performance levels, strategies, and success of government services outsourcing suppliers, MAXIMUS is out front with straight A’s. The company was selected by Forbes Magazine as one of the ten Best Small Companies in America for 1999..
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Although he sees few mega-deals on the outsourcing horizon for 1999, Robert E. Zahler, a partner in the law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, does predict a streamlining of outsourcing relationships.
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