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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 …

Insurance Carriers, Take Note: Explosive Growth Is No Accident

Outsourcing Center, Barbara Lewis, Business Writer

Cultivating a productive 1:1 customer engagement demands integrated data Outdated, paper-based processes, information silos and legacy systems have been the bane of insurance carriers for years, hampering not only the efficiency of their internal operations, but also impacting the way they engage with agents and customers. For example, if it’s too complicated for independent agents …

Leading Reasons to Outsource Your IT Services

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 — and …

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 …

Reducing Costs While Improving Patient Safety

GAVS Technologies

How healthcare providers are cutting costs and improving patient care by integrating IMS, Compliance, Business Intelligence and Mobility solutions According to Gartner, the pace and magnitude of IT-enabled changes in the healthcare sector will increase dramatically during this decade. Highly available, aware and responsive infrastructures are fast becoming the focus of CIOs, with attention shifting …

New Buyer Demands and SMAC Are Changing Both Providers and BPO

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

BPO, the outsourcing constant, is continually changing. Here’s the constant: Service providers in 2014 “have to live up to evolved client demands, increased competition and a rapidly changing regulatory environment,” notes Sanjay Jain, chief strategy officer, WNS Global Services. What’s changing is how they are meeting their evergreen challenges…and some new ones, too. Here’s how. …

Latin America Growing As an Outsourcing Market- Especially for Real Estate

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Outsourcing buyers and service providers are now shining a spotlight on Latin America. “It’s been a slow-growing industry over the last 10 years. But interest has picked up in the last year or two,” reports Mark Melas, regional director, Jones Lang LaSalle, a professional services and investment management company offering specialized real estate services, including …

Six Ways BPO Looks Different

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

The BPO landscape is changing as fast as the colors on the leaves as summer turns into fall. Why now? Professor Ilan Oshri, Professor of Technology and Globalization at the University of Loughborough, says the maturity of the BPO industry, experienced buyers gained with both captives and third-party service providers, and the providers use of …

Top Five Reasons for IT Directors to Outsource IT Services | Article

Mark Walker, Business Development Director, Ubertas

Fear of surrendering control is probably the main factor holding many IT directors back from realizing the benefits of outsourcing IT services. But if you can find an IT services supplier who will work with you in a genuine partnership, understanding the specific needs of your business, it soon becomes clear that this fear is …

Signing a Foreign Trade Agreement Made Colombia Outsourcers More Welcome in the US Market | Article

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

By 2013 most American companies understand and appreciate the value of offshoring. Since the Indians were among the first suppliers to pioneer the concept of sending work across geographical boundaries, American companies feel comfortable offshoring major functions to Indian service providers. Outsourcers in other countries would like to be considered on the short list at …

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