Ben Trowbridge
Outsourcing outsourcing has become a popular business strategy in recent years, with companies looking to cut costs and increase efficiency by delegating certain tasks to external service providers. One type of outsourcing that has gained significant traction is offshore outsourcing, where companies outsource their business processes to service providers located in different countries. This article …
J Ben Trowbridge
In today’s digital age, freelancing platforms have become an essential part of the professional world. Upwork, TopTal, and Fiverr are three popular platforms that connect employers with freelancers from around the globe. Upwork is a large and diverse platform that offers a wide range of freelancers and services. TopTal, on the other hand, focuses on …
Ben Trowbridge
As a long-term sourcing advisor and AI advocate, I can’t help but feel excited about the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the outsourcing industry. AI integration is clearly on a path to revolutionize how business is. Conducted across a wide variety of sectors, making processes more efficient and cost-effective. And now, it’s transforming …
Ben Trowbridge
Consulting firms ranging from the Big 4 to Regional Firms looking to deliver Managed Services and establish strong long-term client relationships must adopt a fundamentally new set of behaviors across various marketing, sales, and operational delivery teams. This requires a nuanced approach to change management that should be viewed as an exciting journey in Managed …
Ben Trowbridge
Terror, anxiety, bewilderment, and even boredom. These are the range of emotions many executives feel when they sit down to discuss their organization’s cybersecurity and compliance strategies. Then the realities of their budget and competing priorities kick in, and often the result, even after a significant industry breach, is they give faint attention to meaningful …
Ben Trowbridge
Consulting firms including Big4 and Regional Accounting firms have the amazing ability to frame a problem, develop a process, gather data, and develop a fact-based solution that can be a real boost for leadership teams that need an unbiased external perspective. However, when a consulting firm is asked to build a managed services practice, the …
Outsourcing Center
Ben Trowbridge, EY Global Cybersecurity Managed Services Leader was awarded the 2019 Innovator of the year award. Now in its third year, the CIO/CTO Awards program honors chief information officers, chief technology officers, and Senior Executives across Texas. These executives are playing an increasingly pivotal role in their companies, at a time when well-leveraged technology …
Outsourcing Center, Barbara Lewis, Business Writer
“The mandates to improve care, advance quality and share information, combined with the constant pressure to reduce costs within the healthcare ecosystem, demand far greater collaboration and coordination than ever before in U.S. healthcare.” Ralph Burns President, Healthcare and Life Sciences, NTT DATA In the United States, the healthcare ecosystem is moving briskly toward a …
Outsourcing Center, Staff Writer
Outsourcing: Leveraging External Expertise for Business Optimization in a Competitive Landscape Outsourcing, defined as the delegation of a business process to an external service provider, has long been a prevalent practice among various organizations. By outsourcing certain aspects of their operations, companies can focus on their core competencies while relying on specialized expertise for other …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
Here are our top 10 reasons why outsourcing fails. The rich and long history of outsourcing—now around 200 years if you consider outsourcing for agriculture, manufacturing, accounting, and now medical opinion—has evolved to be a more complex process over the years. Today’s outsourcing is for tasks that are mission-critical for enterprises worldwide. These include outsourcing …
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