Strategic Collaboration Management

Overcoming the Winner’s Curse

J Ben Trowbridge

Unlike most auctions, both buyers and service provicers in an IT outsourcing transaction pay if the winning service provider offered an irrational price to get the deal. Stephen Dunn offers tips to buyers on how to avoid the winner's curse.

The New-Age Social Revolution

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Companies can use social media effectively to generate and spread ideas, to collaborate and communicate in real-time across the organization. In a world where the death of a butterfly in Mexico and rise of forest fires in Australia are connected,

Social Media and Mobile Collaboration: Game Changer for Financial Services Industry

Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer

For centuries, banks have built their business models on the foundation of customer confidentiality. Secrecy and security are by-words in the world of banking. How can they be expected to embrace social media, a platform where things appear to be

15 Top ITaaS Do’s and Don’ts for Enterprises

Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer

The IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) model began as a way of provisioning IT services, infrastructure and support for businesses that did not really understand how to create or run IT services. The ITaaS model does this at scale in a cost-effective and

Mobile Operators Think Small to Get Bigger Profits

Debbie Fisher, Business Writer, Outsourcing Center

A small cell solution, that is. Whether you’re a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) deploying services in urban or rural areas, a city official modernizing your infrastructure to attract and retain citizens, or a high tech start-up looking to join

Big Data Trends: New Uses, New Challenges, New Solutions

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

It’s hard to find a business enabler that’s evolving as quickly as big data analytics. Big data trends are on the minds of business owners everywhere. This undisputed darling of the loyalty program and retail world has now infiltrated nearly

Why is Outsourcing Innovation So Hard? Here’s How to Make the Impossible Possible!

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Talk to most outsourcing buyers at the outset of their engagements and innovation is always on their wish list. Talk to them two or three years later, and the one thing they wish they had gotten is innovation. The lack

Fabric Data Centers: The End of Complex, Expensive and Inefficient Infrastructure

Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer

What’s new in the data center? Last year, the buzz was around “fabric data centers” as organizations began to worry about costs. Did it make sense to have dedicated and expensive network, computing and storage resources around applications even if

Beyond Automation: The Importance of Human Analytics in Social Media Monitoring

Anand Chopra, Ph.D., Research & Analytics, Wipro BPO

Mobile networking. Online games. Social computing. As personal and professional worlds collide, social media is generating huge amounts of unstructured data that’s brimming with business insights — from consumer preferences to competitor activities. That’s why many companies are using social

A Pioneering HR BPO Engagement Succeeds through "The Simplicity of One&quot

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

16th Annual Outsourcing Excellence Awards—Best BPO: International Paper and Aon Hewitt “Instead of communicating by change requests and contract management, we can sit down and talk. That is what makes us successful.” Scott Lacy, Manager of HR Operations, International Paper

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