Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The pace of change in information and communication technology in education, including corporate learning programs, has been tremendously fast and has completely altered the teaching and learning process. Here’s the story of how one company used outsourcing to not only adapt to the changes but also manage to grow its business.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
TalentTrack is the largest RPO focusing on healthcare. President Kim Davis discusses how to get reluctant buyers to sign on the dotted line and why the leadership team has to read Blink and watch The Replacements.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Every two years Aberdeen Group studies corporate plans for procurement outsourcing for the next two years. This year cost still remained the No. 1 reason to outsource. But reason No. 2 changed: today companies want their personnel to focus on more strategic activities.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Vanguard had hit a red light: it had to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The light changed to green when investors purchased its assets out of bankruptcy and outsourced its IT and IT-related business processes to Perot Systems, who cut its IT budget in half. Today Vanguard is driving in high gear and making money.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Hughes, America’s 15th largest ISP, outsourced a call center for inbound direct marketing. Today, half the company’s direct sales come from this outsourced relationship. Sales doubled while costs fell 30 percent. ACS turns 14 percent of these calls into sales, up from three percent. Increasing the conversion rate allows Hughes to do more marketing with the same dollars.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Editor Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, who conducted all the interviews, finds six recurring themes among the winners. The most surprising: offshoring actually created jobs for Americans.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
The insurer’s sluggish processes and aging technology made it nearly impossible to introduce new products quickly. And its expense-to-premium ratio was 65 percent when the industry norm was closer to 20 percent. Outsourcing included a transformation. The result: In the last 18 months, Channel Life took on 450,000 new policies, four times the number of policies it had.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
BT was a plain old phone company. Then competition and the Internet changed telecommunication. Where was BT going to find the capital to fund the requisite new offerings? BT outsourced its HR to Accenture. Together the partnership transformed BT.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
One of the victims of September 11 was the airline industry. Delta had to service its call center customers at a lower cost. The solution was offshoring. That decision turned out to be a lifeline when hurricanes hit the US last year, shuttering some US call centers. Wipro routed extra calls to Mumbai and Pune, stretching its resources to support the airline in its time of need.
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.
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