Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Innovation is the lifeblood of entrepreneurial companies such as Inherited Health™, an online resource for information about health risks, but it’s also imperative that such companies deliver new products to the market in a short time frame and at the lowest cost. Those were the business challenges – along with having only a handful of …
Linda Tuck Chapman, President, ONTALA Performance Solutions Ltd.
The biggest challenge with service provider governance is designing a good program that minimizes the increased workload of already-stretched resources. Linda Tuck Chapman shares how to design and deploy a governance program that focuses on service provider performance and risk management.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Giving up control over the outsourced process is a basic principle in how outsourcing works, but many buyers find it difficult to do this at the outset of a relationship. An Outsourcing Center study looked at the factors that cause initial discomfort and what makes a buyer feel comfortable enough to turn over control to the provider.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
What are the real risks in offshoring both ITO and BPO work? Professor Ravi Aron, John Hopkins University, says understanding those risks helps buyers set up procedures to make their offshore engagements more successful.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) is causing payors to determine how to meet the challenge of adjusting existing technology so it services individual clients, not just groups. Payors have four choices. One of those, a CDH defined-care platform in an outsourced model is finding great success in the marketplace. Here’s why.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
People are an organization’s number one asset. Yet many hospitals are reluctant to outsource their recruiting process despite a nationwide staffing crisis for fear giving up control over how people enter the organization. Here’s how two hospitals resolved that issue.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Returns due to sizing errors had been a problem for a company selling children’s clothes on the Internet. Outsourcing solved the problem thanks to the supplier’s analytics.
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Companies are outsourcing their payment transactions for reasons other than costs and efficiencies. Find out how this could create opportunities for customer retention and acquisition.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
A new study from Accenture and The Economist discovered outsourcing and effective governance can co-exist. In fact, 43 percent reported outsourcing raised the quality of governance and compliance for financial processes at their organizations.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
BPO providers predict this year business transformation will become more than just talk. And offshoring will expand into new industries and new geographies. Here’s a BPO road map for 2005.
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