Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
BP, one of the world’s largest companies, considers it a best practice to outsource as many non-core processes as possible. But outsourcing HR was considered a crucial component of its organizational transformation. Here’s the story of how a groundbreaking deal successfully achieved objectives.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Learn why BP believes this outsourcing relationship may be the single most successful deal it has ever done.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
How to create an ‘us’ without destroying the ‘me’ in an outsourcing relationship.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
How can you minimize risks when selecting a fairly new company as your supplier? Here’s what BP and Bank of America did when they outsourcing their HR to Exult.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Jane Drasites, Director, Benefits Delivery for BP Amoco, swears that the first year in an outsourcing relationship is just like a marriage. Some marriages don’t work very well. When Amoco (prior to its merger with BP) signed an agreement in 1993 for Hewitt Associates to handle its HR functions, it was positive it had found the right mate. Unfortunately, they didn’t go for some counseling before they tied the knot, and the honeymoon didn’t last long.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
BPAmoco is one of the world’s leading providers of energy and petrochemicals. As the third largest integrated oil company in the world, it enjoys considerable reach and scale. BPAmoco recognized that its core skills revolve around the products that it markets to its customers. Its accounting and transaction functions are not part of that core. We can certainly get comfortable with a third-party providing that service, allowing us to focus our attention on those things that we are good at and need to be good at, suggests David Hulf, CFO of BPAmoco Oil Europe. But only an outsourcer of equal stature would be able to supply BPAmoco’s needs.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and BP Amoco (BPA) have embarked on a significant outsourcing collaboration that has the potential of being a watershed event.
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