Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Dow Chemical Co. had underinvested in its call center. It needed to upgrade the technology, reduce its capital investment and add best practices. Who ya gonna call? EDS.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
When GM realized it wasn’t making the best use of its enterprise marketing dollars and customer services, it came up with a unique strategy. But to ensure success in achieving enterprise-wide value, the strategy required outsourcing.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Finding top talent for sales support and fulfillment is always a challenge. Spherion helped the second largest check printing company in the U.S. man its sales resource center. In addition to great customer service, the buyer was finally able to standardize its sales process.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Total integration after mergers/acquisitions is difficult to achieve…but IBM knows how to do it, no matter how complex it appears to be.
Greg Short, Counsel in the Los Angeles office of Shaw Pittman LLP
Don’t shortchange the exhibits in your outsourcing contract. They contain the core of your outsourcing agreement, including the price of services and your service level agreements.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Virtual warehousing is not new, but it’s sometimes not successful. QVC.com outsourced to ensure its quality standards and a seamless experience for its customers would be the result.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Outsourcing is not just about turning over a business process to a company with expertise and resources in that area. It’s more successful when both parties work as a team to overcome all challenges. Here’s a striking example of an excellent alliance.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Find out how an effective outsourcing relationship enables a very small insurance wholesale business to compete cost-effectively with large, powerful insurance companies.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
BP’s motivations for outsourcing were classic, and Getronics has surpassed those needs. Even so, the highly effective risk/reward pricing scheme is a powerful influence on the remarkable success of this relationship.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Just knowing the objectives you want to achieve by outsourcing is not enough. You have to build a strong relationship. Here’s the story of innovative first steps taken to ensure the Bank had the right partner and that the parties won’t be having any tug-of-war incidents.
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