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Insurance & Technology
March 7, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Carrier Confidential: Allianz of America Allianz of America CIO Oliver Bussmann has established a shared services model that allows Fireman's Fund and Allianz Life to leverage IT synergies while remaining focused on their unique challenges.   |
Insurance & Technology
June 16, 2004
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Gaining the Outsourcing Edge Whether they consider outsourcing applications, infrastructure or business processes, insurers have a myriad of reasons to contract out portions of their operations. |
Insurance & Technology
June 16, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Room for Improvement Insurers should be more aggressive in managing outsourcing's risks and reaping its rewards as part of an overall sourcing strategy. |
Insurance & Technology
August 30, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurers Expand Views On What Can Be Sourced Externally Economic pressures, evolving technology and increasing comfort with partner management are combining to force insurance executives to expand their views of what can be sourced externally. |
Insurance & Technology
May 4, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Economy Drives Exploration of New Outsourcing Opportunities Insurers are slightly more cautious about the financial, political and security risks of offshoring, but they are keen to find new BPO opportunities. |
Global Services
December 7, 2008
Chris Osentowski |
Global Sourcing Strategies Customers are conferring with their global sourcing providers to revisit their outsourcing strategies, procurement processes, transition and delivery commitments for what is expected to be a soft year. |
Insurance & Technology
February 19, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
Uncovering Offshore Secrets Overly generous cost savings estimates can doom a carrier's offshore outsourcing effort before it even begins. In order to optimize success and manage expectations accordingly, insurers must take the hidden costs of these deals into consideration. |
Global Services
July 1, 2008
Imrana Khan |
The Case for Transformation Beyond the hype about transformation there's some real work being delivered that makes the case for business transformation outsourcing. |
Insurance & Technology
February 1, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Outsourcing's Not Growing Older, It's Getting Better The news about outsourcing in the global insurance industry is not that it has revealed its shortcomings, but that it has proven its reliability. And in doing so, it has matured into something beyond a mere cost-cutting play. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 1, 2007
Nancy Feig |
New Rules for Bank Outsourcing and Offshoring New deal models and business imperatives, as well as opportunities in emerging markets, are inspiring banks to reevaluate the types of outsourcing and offshoring arrangements they make. |
Global Services
July 11, 2008
Mukherji & Singh |
The Next Wave of Outsourcing: Remote Infrastructure Management The rapid evolution in remote server-management technologies and IT architectures, changes in customer behaviors and demand patterns, and developments in the provider and offshore supply environment is propelling the industry toward accelerated adoption of RIM |
Bank Technology News
June 2007
Geeta Sankappanavar |
Financial Services Outsourcing: Not If, But When BPO companies now offer a way to achieve the cost and quality advantages of strategic global outsourcing without the risks of losing control of the operation and without the investment costs of setting up their own offshore centers. |
Global Services
August 1, 2008
Imrana Khan |
Truly Global A reality check on the multicountry global delivery model in outsourcing |
CIO
April 15, 2006
Stephanie Overby |
The Three- or Four-Year Itch To succeed, relationships require love and attention. That's why CIOs - especially mid-market CIOs with limited resources - should factor in the costs of hand-holding when going offshore. |
CFO
November 17, 2003
Polly Schneider Traylor |
Outsourcing More work is being sent packing, often far away. To make it pay off, management must adapt. |
CIO
June 1, 2003
Stephanie Overby |
Inside Outsourcing in India Outsourcing to India can provide a huge payback -- if you're willing to work at it. Two offshore veterans share their hard-earned lessons to help you determine if Indian outsourcing is right for your company. |
CIO
June 13, 2011
Stephanie Overby |
No. 1 Gripe with Outsourcers: Lousy Service An outsourcing survey finds CIOs need to improve vendor management. |
Global Services
March 6, 2008 |
Enabling Better Business & IT Alignment What will set apart great business leaders is the ability to adapt to and manage change well. Here are some tips for selecting and managing multiple IT service providers |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2008
Ginsburg & Noorlander |
Investigating Outsourcing and Offshoring Research For 15 years, there have been discussions on whether or not to outsource research. You would think the issue would be resolved by now, but today we have more questions than answers. |
CRM
July 2005
Coreen Bailor |
An Inside Look at Outsourcing The ink is dry on the contact center outsourcing contract. Now what? We take a look at five factors companies need to evaluate over the course of the agreement to ensure a smooth-running partnership. |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
David I. Sheinfeld |
The Commoditization Of F&A Outsourcing With finance and accounting outsourcing providers cropping up on every street corner, the pressure is on for companies to distinguish themselves and their offerings to stay competitive. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2006
Patricia Panchak |
Editor's Page -- Next-Generation Outsourcing A new realism about manufacturing outsourcing takes hold. |
CIO
February 1, 2007
Stephanie Overby |
Secrets of Offshoring Success Even as offshore outsourcing has matured, best practices have been few. Now two top academics reveal the principles that should guide CIOs. |
Global Services
November 5, 2007
Singh & Puryear |
Beyond Single Site, Single Provider As companies measure their offshore presence, they grapple with two large challenges. First, the increasing imbalance between workforce supply and demand, and second, where to site their offshore activities. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2010 |
Knowledge-Based Outsourcing: Driving Deeper Insights Outsourcing is fairly commonplace in the world of pharma. Tracking, monitoring, and trend evaluation is not enough. Companies must now do more than assess what happened and why. |
CIO
May 1, 2012
Maryfran Johnson |
Are CIOs Looking to Bring Outsourced IT Jobs Back In-House? Why CIOs are changing their outsourcing strategy to bring more IT jobs back in-house. |
CFO
May 1, 2007
Randy Myers |
Going Away The doubts that finance executives once had about offshoring are quickly disappearing as savings and process improvements become too good to pass up. |
CIO
November 14, 2012
Stephanie Overby |
IT Services Get Closer to Home IT chiefs find that domestic outsourcing (as opposed to offshoring) is becoming more attractive as it delivers advantages such as agility, speed and innovation |
Managed Care
June 2005
Ed Silverman |
It's a Small World After All: Outsourcing Makes Inroads The entire managed care industry is desperate to cut costs and is beginning to turn toward a controversial method to do just that. |
Global Services
October 31, 2008
Mike Beals |
Governance Tools Can be a Game Changer A successful outsourcing initiative requires the implementation of a disciplined outsourcing lifecycle methodology. To make this methodology work, both the customer and the service provider must together design an approach to govern the relationship using the right governance tools and guidelines |
Global Services
April 2, 2008
Adyasha Sinha |
Changing Lanes with ESO A product may be "Made in China" or "Made in U.S.A." but it's the "Engineered Globally" tag that is up for grabs |
CIO
May 1, 2012
Stephanie Overby |
Outsourcing Declines, Are IT Jobs Coming Back? IT leaders and CIOs are reexamining their outsourcing mix and bringing some -- but not all -- IT back in-house |
CIO
January 30, 2013 |
IT Offshoring Still Works, If You're Careful Three CIOs say that the benefits of offshore outsourcing still resonate -- if you learn from previous missteps and manage the risks |
Global Services
June 27, 2007 |
The Global Sourcers More and more people are sourcing services from around the world for their companies. But do they have the right skills for a job that is becoming increasingly strategic to their companies? |
Global Services
August 29, 2007
Deborah Kops |
It's Greek to Me One company's multitower contract is another's bundled deal. Are process and functional outsourcing synonymous? Whats the difference between shared services and captives? Why can't the industry use the same terminology? |
Global Services
September 1, 2008 |
The Definitive Survey of Sourcing Advisers Welcome to the first ever study on sourcing advisory companies that covers the views of service buyers and providers. |
Global Services
December 2, 2008
Phil Fersht |
How to Structure and Execute Your Outsourcing Strategy Entering into an outsourcing engagement is not a decision that should be hurried. Here's how to take an organized approach to designing your global outsourcing strategy. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Fersht & Sappenfield |
Preparing the New Organization for Life After Outsourcing The cost and performance benefits of outsourcing are now generally recognized, but the range of benefits varies widely. And, much of this variability can be attributed to the company's ability to effectively transition to the new organization. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 26, 2006
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Outsourcing Questions and answers about bank outsourcing. |
CIO
September 15, 2005
Stephanie Overby |
It's Cheaper In China CIOs are beginning to see China as a cheaper alternative to India. Nypro, a global plastics manufacturer, shares some lessons from its experiences over there. |
Insurance & Technology
August 7, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Policy Admin System Replacement: Insurers Shift Focus From Systems to Functionalities Interboro Insurance Co.'s policy administration replacement initiative was in key respects a classic case. |
Global Services
May 10, 2007
Amrita Singh |
Offshore HR: What Customers Can Do? In many outsourcing and offshoring relationships, customers and providers work shoulder-to-shoulder. Customers involve themselves in a range of activities that span recruitment, training, migrating processes and even appraisals of the staff that are working with third-party providers. |
Wall Street & Technology
June 18, 2008
Penny Crosman |
Wall Street Outsourcing to New, Exotic Corners of the Globe While India still rules the world of IT offshoring, China, the Philippines, Romania, Poland, Hungary, South Africa, Vietnam, Cambodia and even Iceland are starting to attract bigger pieces of Wall Street's IT action. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 7, 2003 |
How Warburg Pincus Views Prospects and Perils in Outsourcing Deals What opportunities do private equity firms like Warburg Pincus see in the business process outsourcing business? What risks do venture capitalists weigh when making such investments? |
Global Services
December 4, 2008
Andrew Efstathiou |
Revisiting Bank Sourcing in Troubled Times Can banks aggressively reduce cost with limited investment funds, managerial time, and limited growth prospects? |
CIO
April 1, 2002
Tom Field |
The Man in the Middle As budgets tighten and world tensions heighten, third-party brokers are stepping in to mediate deals between U.S.-based customers and offshore outsourcers... |
CIO
September 9, 2009
Albert Eng |
Getting More Value from Offshore Vendors Apply these simple criteria to evaluate potentially strategic offshore partners. |
Insurance & Technology
September 1, 2007
Anthony O'Donnell |
Legacy Systems Yield To Modern Technologies The continued success of newer technology platforms is clarifying the likely future state of policy admin systems and reshaping how insurance carriers large and small think about legacy migration. |
CIO
July 15, 2006
Stephanie Overby |
2006 Global Outsourcing Guide Risks, rewards, challenges and opportunities, country by country. Asia: India... Philippines... Malaysia... China... Europe: Ireland... Romania... Hungary... Bulgaria... Africa: Ghana... The Americas: Mexico... Canada... Costa Rica... etc. |
CFO
March 1, 2008
Kate O'Sullivan |
Offshoring Spreads Its Wings From East Asia to Eastern Europe, offshore outsourcing is taking off. |
