If a Business Process Outsourcer Improves a Function, Is It Business Transformational Outsourcing?
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
See what industry leaders think in this of four articles on insights for buyers of BTO services.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
See what industry leaders think in this of four articles on insights for buyers of BTO services.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
IT spending finally picked up and the utility\x0d\x0a model of pay-as-needed became firmly established in 2003. The surviving\x0d\x0a ASPs rose like a phoenix. Buyers focused on cost. They also need\x0d\x0a to consider the strategic value of IT outsourcing.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Business transformation outsourcing is the industry’s new buzz word. What exactly is it? Senior writer Kathleen Goolsby polled suppliers and has a definitive answer buyers need to know. First in a four part BTO series.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Partners in the Chicago, London, Sydney, and Hong Kong offices of Baker & McKenzie share their observations about trends in their regions and their industries, including their thoughts on offshoring. Is outsourcing the legal department the next BPO process?
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The biggest event in outsourcing last year — and the biggest event since outsourcing’s inception — was the growing use of offshoring. Both buyers and suppliers realized the profound power of labor arbitrage. The move to offshore work to take advantage of low cost labor is affecting every area of outsourcing. In the IT space, …
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
To cope in today’s economy, many hospitals are hiring temporary and contract workers for projects. How do you manage this HR challenge? One hospital cut its staffing vendor list in half and its invoices for 20 facilities to one after outsourcing.
Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer
How do you prove your department is doing strategic work? The public relations department of home builder Pulte was able to improve its performance and prove its importance after outsourcing its PR software to an ASP.
Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer
Buyers who outsource their call centers are discovering they can reduce cost and increase their customers’ satisfaction even when call volumes are increasing. New studies show using a mix of offshore and domestic agents is sparking double-digit growth in Europe.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
A new Accenture study discovered that 86% of buyers gain more control over strategic business results in a variety of critical areas, such as shareholder value and revenue, when they outsource. And 73% of the companies redistribute the cost benefits of outsourcing to either bottom line or growth efforts.
Ben Trowbridge
If I had to do it over again, I would change….is the lament of many executives structuring outsourcing agreements. We interviewed six who were satisfied with the plans they made. They shared a common approach: they used an advisor.
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