Human Resources

Explosive Growth Digital Transformation

Mike Sarantopoulos, SVP, Insurance Practice, NTT DATA, Inc

A successful digitalization strategy is critical to insurance firms’ survival. This white paper examines effective strategies for overcoming internal obstacles to digital transformation and the crucial role data plays in any insurance carrier’s business. Additionally, it clarifies the foundational capabilities that are key to a successful digital transformation initiative. They include: Driving business transformation with …

Top 9 Innovation Trends in Outsourcing for 2015

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 …

Disrupter Turned Destroyer: How Mobility is Killing Corporate Productivity

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

Please silence your smartphone and give this article your full attention. For most people these days, that’s easier said than done. Although the proliferation of mobility has untethered global employees from their desks, provided anytime access to the information they need to do their jobs, and given workforces newfound agility, there is a dark side. …

Is Automation Putting The Human Workforce on Auto-Pilot? | Article

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

July 6, 2013: An Asiana Airlines flight carrying 307 people from South Korea to San Francisco clipped a seawall and crashed, killing three people. Although all of the causes of the crash are still being investigated at this writing, reports indicate that one big contributing factor was the pilots’ reliance on automation. They were so …

How Workforce 2020 Will Change Outsourcing

Outsourcing Center, Patti Putnicki, Business Writer

We’ve all heard it, or said it, a million times: Our outsourcing engagement works because of the relationship. It is a partnership, not a buyer-vendor arrangement. And for the most part, that statement has held true. Traditional outsourcing typically involved a 10-plus-year contract, along with a real need to make the relationship work. Changing providers …

How the Advantages of Video Interviewing Are Improving Enterprises | Article

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

With the insane popularity of selfies, people clearly like being in front of the camera. And that includes using video from their smart phones. Video interviewing is actually more than cool and fun. Its usage is improving the profitability of the enterprises that use it in nine ways: from hiring better candidates faster to actually …

BPO for the Next Generation

Outsourcing Center

How analytics, insights and innovation are revolutionizing the outsourcing industry Since its mainstream inception in the 1990s, a comprehensive and successful business process outsourcing (BPO) program has consisted of three main elements: cost reduction, transaction processing of non-core functions (such as human resources and finance and accounting), and offshoring. The entire concept was built around …

How Texting, Veterans and SEO Helped RPO Companies Fill High-Demand Jobs

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 …

Why ConAgra Foods Decided to Outsource HR Analytics After Doing It In house

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

This is the second article in a series on how companies are using Big Data to gain critical business insights. ConAgra Foods, a food maker based in Omaha, Nebraska, started its journey to using predictive analysis in an incremental way. The company, whose brands include Healthy Choice, Banquet, Orville Redenbacher’s, Marie Callender’s and Chef Boyardee, …

Outsourcing Talent Gives a Singapore Company a Competitive Advantage in a Market with One Percent Unemployment | Article

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

The key to any successful business is its talent. 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 is the current situation in Singapore. Finding and affording the talent …

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Disrupter Turned Destroyer: How Mobility is Killing Corporate Productivity

Is Automation Putting The Human Workforce on Auto-Pilot? | Article

How the Advantages of Video Interviewing Are Improving Enterprises | Article

How Texting, Veterans and SEO Helped RPO Companies Fill High-Demand Jobs

Why ConAgra Foods Decided to Outsource HR Analytics After Doing It In house

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