Power Implant: Outsourcing… or Insourcing
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The story of what happens when two organizations buy into a strategic outsourcing vision together.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The story of what happens when two organizations buy into a strategic outsourcing vision together.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Outsourcing suppliers are responsive in a crisis. Forty-five minutes after the first plane hit the World Trade Center, Compaq executives were on the phone, putting together a triage of support for its eight financial clients with Recover-All contracts as well as its many other customers headquartered in the twin towers. Tom Simmons, vice president of Compaq Managed Services in Stowe, Massachusetts, says within three hours Compaq had organized a crisis center routing telephone questions to Colorado Springs and opened a walk-in facility near Madison Square Garden manned by its Northeast sales team. A crisis Web site was online that night.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
At LaQuinta, the inbound call center has been an outsourced function since 1996. Jackie Burke, Vice President of Reservation Services for LaQuinta, says the company has no reservations — that is, no doubts or misgivings — about its choice of outsourcing supplier for this extremely important function.
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