John Harney, Business Writer
Charmant’s existing payroll software was outmoded, hard to use, and not integrated into its time and attendance system, which created challenges for the eyewear distributor’s two-person human resources department. The HR manager staked his job on an outsourcing solution . . . which worked.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The industry now faces a new set of risks associated with second-generation Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and HRO deals. We spoke with Adecco and ExcellerateHRO to learn their advice for mitigating risks in 2008.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
What a year! Wipro set up shop in the United States. This year’s subprime mortgage mess will actually help outsourcing next year. And non-traditional suppliers won some big outsourcing deals. Here’s what it all means and a guess at how these events might impact the industry in the next 12 months.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Industry consolidation continues full speed ahead. Standardization helps profit margins (finally!). The mid-market takes off (really!). Here are some educated guesses about what will happen in HRO next year.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Knowledge Process Outsourcing may become the fastest-expanding outsourcing initiative in the next 12 months, especially across Europe. Here’s what you need to know about KPO trends, the value proposition, and how to select a KPO service provider.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Telekurs Financial, which provides real-time data to the world’s largest banks, was still entering data manually. It clearly needed to offshore to speed up and improve the process. But where should it go? This is its story.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
A new report from Deloitte Consulting discovered financial institutions are reshaping themselves before our eyes. They will be forever changed by globalization, according to Peter Lowes. Fact: In 2001 less than 10 percent of the financial services industry had moved work offshore. Today, 75 percent have. Here’s what’s really happening.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Common themes ran through the relationships of the Awards winners–whether the buyer was collecting child support payments in Louisiana, performing cardiac surgery in Boston, or supplying cell phone service to rural India. Peter Bendor-Samuel shares the lessons learned.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Old Mutual had earned the unhappy moniker: the worst in the industry. It outsourced to become competitive. During the first two migrations, events conspired to triple volume. Read how the two partners learned to work together under the crushing volumes.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
No one wants to wait three months to be paid. The Department of Surgery outsourced its bill collection, which cut day in accounts receivable from 94 to 50. But the change wasn’t easy; the two partners had to change how the surgeons operated (their back office.)
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