Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
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.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
What do you do when the hospital has a fiscal crisis and can’t staunch the bleeding? Some suppliers would cut off the air supply when the money ran out. But not Eclipsys. It lowered its monthly fees until the hospital recovered, putting patient safety before profit.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Thanks to a technology-enabled outsourced solution, what used to take two to four weeks or more for a doctor’s workers’ compensation report on a patient now takes about 30 seconds. The solution also helps get injured employees back to work faster, lowering costs for employers.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
People are an organization’s number one asset. Yet many hospitals are reluctant to outsource their recruiting process despite a nationwide staffing crisis for fear giving up control over how people enter the organization. Here’s how two hospitals resolved that issue.
Bruce Leshine, Jorden Burt LLP
The centerpiece of current healthcare information technology outsourcing initiatives is the buyer’s decision to implement a new clinical information system. Attorney Bruce Leshine posits the best way to go about this is for the buyer, supplier, and CIS vendor to work together to craft a solution.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
A growing provider was able to cut its benefits costs by half yet double the quality of those benefits by outsourcing. That helped it recruit staff for its new locations.
Ulad Radkevitch
Small-to-medium businesses in the US are turning to IT experts in Romania. Cost is not the only consideration. They say Romanians are harder working and more reliable with deadlines In addition, they didn’t pester them with requests for payment before the job was completed.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
In the highly competitive travel and tourism industry, innovation and time to market with products and services are crucial to success. Small companies can compete with larger enterprises by outsourcing because it enables them to move beyond the constraints of their in-house resources.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Call centers can impact a travel agency’s market share because of the large number of customer interactions. Yet a March study of North American consumers sounded an alarm for call centers that don’t have the requisite technology to ensure satisfactory customer experiences. Here’s how two travel-related businesses solved that technology problem.
John Harney, Business Writer
With competition intensifying, outsourced travel management providers are analyzing spend and integrating their tools with their buyers’ back end systems to stand out from the pack, which now includes traditional procurement service providers.
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