Ben Trowbridge
Outsourcing has become a popular business strategy in recent years, with companies of all sizes turning to external service providers to handle various aspects of their operations and the discussion of offshore outsourcing vs nearshore outsourcing needs to be examined. This practice involves delegating specific tasks or processes to a third-party company often offshore or …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
Here are our top 10 reasons why outsourcing fails. The rich and long history of outsourcing—now around 200 years if you consider outsourcing for agriculture, manufacturing, accounting, and now medical opinion—has evolved to be a more complex process over the years. Today’s outsourcing is for tasks that are mission-critical for enterprises worldwide. These include outsourcing …
Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer
Taking the IT outsourcing plunge is nothing to take lightly. But what’s really holding you back? Often it’s fear of the unknown, along with fear of losing full control, that keeps you from experiencing the many benefits outsourcing can bring. But if you look around, you’ll likely see your competitors are doing it — since …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
Do you know the key to IT transformation? When a practicing physician and a Ph.D. in biochemistry/molecular genetics decided to co-found a new company, it wouldn’t be amiss to expect that it would operate in the healthcare industry. Jamison Feramisco, as co-founder of a secure web and mobile application that enabled remote diagnosis of dermatology …
Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer
Robotics, Analytics or Multi-channel enagagement? This report explores the innovative practices businesses are implementing in their outsourcing agreements. It is based on 100 in-depth interviews with senior outsourcing buyers. More than four fifths (83%) of buyers say they have experienced innovation in their outsourcing relationships Nine in ten (92%) say their outsourcing partners want to …
Debbie Fisher, Business Writer, Outsourcing Center
In 1984, Wendy’s coined the slogan “Where’s the beef?” For outsourcers, the answer in 2014 is unanimous—it’s business outcomes. Gone are the days of labor arbitrage. “Technology is changing so fast that the focus is now on outcome-based models where value is driven from measuring business impacts and linked to compensation,” predicts Lalit Dhingra, President …
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Even as the economy has improved worldwide, the unemployment figures are still stubbornly high. But talking to HR and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) executives, they are working overtime to fill certain jobs. Sometimes the skill set is too much in demand or just rare. In other cases, it is near impossible to reach the right …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
In late September, high-profile cloud storage start up Nirvanix told its customers to stop replicating data on its servers and migrate to other providers like Microsoft Azure, IBM SoftLayer and Amazon S3. For several reasons, Nirvanix, sitting on a tidy $70 million in funding, was shutting down . Users had until October 15 to download …
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 predictable manner. Put another way, ITaaS is a pay-as-you-go model aimed at SMBs who want …
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
The key to any successful business is its talent. But what would you do if you couldn’t find the people you needed in the entire country, even though you were paying above market wages? And you can’t offshore the jobs because of government regulations. That’s where outsourcing talent management comes in. Consider the current situation in …
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