Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The industry is now beginning to approach infrastructure from a stronger process orientation. This will dynamically alter the value proposition, offerings, pricing, and other aspects of infrastructure management. It is also causing infrastructure process reengineering. Here are the insights you need for outsourcing infrastructure over the next few years.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
HRO and talent management processes are taking some dramatic turns. Here are the insights you need to know about what’s happening with the value proposition in both of these areas and how decision-making needs to be altered going forward.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Understanding people’s expectationss and how people think differently from culture to culture will improve the chances for success in an offshore outsourcing relationship. Here’s what you need to know about China, Ukraine, and India, as well as insights into offshore service provider selection criteria and determinants for success.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Pharmaceutical sales reps must now be much more efficient at displaying marketing information and retrieving data relevant to a particular physician because they are allowed less time with physicians. Now there’s a cutting-edge closed-loop marketing mobile solution that runs untethered from networks, is available in an SaaS model, and ensures it delivers the content most relevant to a particular physician.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Hospitals are in a highly competitive market, and consumers now expect services that extend beyond quality patient care. Read about the valet and hotel-like concierge services that one outsourcing provider offers and how it benefits patients, their families and friends, hospital employees — and the hospital itself.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Currently, a growing number of enterprises expect service providers to use service management tools, especially those aligned to ITIL v3 best practices in managing services as a business. This article discusses the trends around uses and benefits of such tools, their differences in value and approach, and how the tools enhance even the soft relationship skills in an outsourcing arrangement.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Not all logistics services are the same. Many do not pick up loose items and lack the capability to create specialized crating for hi-tech equipment and other costly items delivered worldwide. Here’s what two companies found when they went searching for the best deal in logistics services for their products.
John Harney, Business Writer
When the government agencies award a contract to IT vendors, they expect them to ramp up staff in a hurry. But carrying staff to potentially service a big contract is as cost-prohibitive as maintaining a large human resources department. That was the challenge for EMCO Technologies, a small Louisiana IT company. It hired Administaff to pick up the HR load so it could land more federal contracts and expand nationally.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
ABB Inc., a technology manufacturer, grew by acquisitions. In 1995 ABB wanted to create a single culture with centralized processes and policies. It decided the best way to do this was outsource. Its first step: centralizing its 401(k) plan. Today, 13 years later, ABB has outsourced many of its HR processes to its original supplier: Fidelity HR Services.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
How do you hire 1,000 human resource employees ASAP when you’re the untested new kid on the block? That was the challenge Visteon Corporation faced right before Ford spun off the automobile parts manufacturer. Manpower Business Solutions helped the newcomer fill its roster and cut its time to hire 50 percent.
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