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Global Services
November 7, 2008
Smith & Pai |
Defining Strategies for Offshore Hybrid Captives What's the ideal approach for optimizing offshoring strategy? One that improves efficiency ratio and uses fixed overheads better or one that facilitates partnerships with fewer risks? Here's insight into creating a successful collaborative model.   |
Global Services
July 8, 2008
Namita Goel |
Speedsourcing Accelerating the sourcing process using an interactive and collaborative approach is not only desired, but also appropriate for many organizations today |
Global Services
November 29, 2007 |
The Future of BPO The continuing implosion of the traditional organization and its underlying support-management approaches, and the emergence of virtualized businesses, will see the Business Process Outsourcing market grow substantially over the next few years. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Steer et al. |
Wishful Thinking or Absolute Necessity? Shared Services Strategy Making the most of a shared-services model depends on a number of variables. Read on for more information. |
Global Services
November 29, 2007 |
The Future of Captive BPOs The future of offshore captive units is not at any risk; nor will captives vanish from the Business Process Outsourcing. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Peggy Cope |
Globalization and the Future At the ONE Conference in Atlanta, experts tackled the cutting-edge questions of finance and procurement globalization. Here are some highlights from the presentations and panels. |
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? |
Global Services
June 4, 2008
Namita Goel |
Into its Own: Sourcing as a Profession If the demand for sourcing professionals outstrips supply, where will the talent come from? |
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 |
Insurance & Technology
December 6, 2007
Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurance Outsourcing Reaches New Levels of Maturity While many insurers are still struggling with the management of offshore resources, industry leaders are crafting long-term global sourcing strategies for strategic competitive advantage. |
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
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. |
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? |
U.S. Banker
June 2008
C. Steven Crosby |
Quest For Talent Is Driving Evolution in Outsourcing The competition for talent among major global financial institutions has begun to drive some of them to move beyond traditional outsourcing models, establishing networks of wholly owned subsidiaries in low-cost jurisdictions. |
HRO Today
April 2008
Barron & Ranjan |
Embracing the World's Offerings Global sourcing is increasingly a valuable tool for achieving business process outsourcing cost savings, and HR outsourcing buyers, long holdouts against offshoring, will finally start to give in to its alluring value. |
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. |
Global Services
February 29, 2008
Imrana Khan |
Captives: Route to Global Organization Amidst throes of the captive vs. third-party debate, Eaton Corporation, the U.S.-based industrial manufacturer, went ahead and set up a captive shop in India in 2006. |
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. |
Global Services
May 27, 2007
Fersht & Sappenfield |
F&A BPO: Beyond Labor Arbitrage While traditionally it has not been easy to convince CFOs of the business benefits of Finance and Accounting BPO, the effectiveness of some early deployments has boosted their confidence. |
Global Services
July 29, 2007
Deborah Kops |
Upward, Onward, Onsource! The magnifying glass is on the performance of the estimated +2,500 shared-services operations worldwide as they stabilize and reach performance maturity. What's next for these business support units as the pressures of competition and globalization demand more. |
HRO Today
May 2008
Andy Teng |
Transforming HR with Data and Expertise Want to hike your HR organization's performance? Sourcing advisors and consultants lend their domain expertise to help pave the way. |
HRO Today
Dec 2007/Jan 2008
Naomi Lee Bloom |
Five Years and 50 Columns Later, An Examination of HRO Progress A look back on five years of growth, change, and progress in the HR outsourcing industry. |
Global Services
August 29, 2007 |
Overcoming the Dollar's Demise During the first half of 2007, the Indian rupee appreciated more against the U.S. dollar than it has in over a decade. The change in valuation is impacting both the IT and BPO providers with billions in exports and corporations with captive units in the country. |
HRO Today
Jul/Aug 2008
Atul Vashistha |
Is Global Sourcing an Item on Your Strategic Plan of Action? Survey examines what buyers are thinking when it comes to sourcing services on a global scale. |
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
September 20, 2007
David L. Ross |
Captive Carve Outs As offshore captives succumb to pressures of increasing costs, high attrition, increasing scale and management control, many parents are selling them. Private-equity and global service providers emerge as potential suitors in the game. |
CIO
November 1, 2000
Tracy Mayor |
Our Vendors, Ourselves - Interview: Frank Casale Frank Casale wants you to love your outsourcer as yourself... |
HRO Today
April 2008
Sak & Grande |
The Year of Mid-Market HRO: Contracting that's Less Adversarial The age of broad-scope, mid-market HRO has arrived; HR outsourcing buyers and providers find themselves on new ground as the market moves into an era of collaborative contracting. |
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 |
Global Services
November 4, 2008
Eugene Kublanov |
Rethinking Globalization: Future Proofing Global Services Are those in the outsourcing and offshoring industry insulated from adverse changes in the future? Yes, but it's time to re-think your globalization, offshoring and outsourcing strategy and ensure that it is adequately future-proofed |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Ross & Madden |
New Dynamics Emerging In the Mid-market FAO Landscape Outsourcing companies are increasingly seeking new business opportunities in what is called the "mid-market." |
Global Services
December 4, 2008
Mark Kobayashi-Hillary |
Small is Beautiful As I look outside at the miserable English rain I'm wondering if the hopeful audacity of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama can really change anything |
Global Services
September 20, 2007 |
Outsourcing by Europe Until recently, the outsourcing of IT and business services from Europe was primarily restricted to the U.K. and large firms on the continent. Now it seems as if the rest of the continent has begun to wake up to the opportunities provided by outsourcing. |
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
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. |
Global Services
January 31, 2008 |
2008 Global Services 100 Survey: Findings The Global Services 100 list, drawn by Global Services and neoIT, now in its fourth year, has come to be seen by the customers as a route to bypass the RFI stage, and the rankings as a means to shortlist candidates for RFP. |
Global Services
November 21, 2007
Rinku Tyagi |
Captive Transfers: A Journey Cut Short As many as 300 captives have mushroomed in the last three years. However, incidents like the transfer of CTSpace's captive operations to Symphony Services only raise debates of "Third-party Vs. Captives," when outsourcing. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Speaking Out on Outsourcing Study shows more companies are now willing to outsource procurement tasks. |
Global Services
September 24, 2007 |
Top 50 Emerging Outsourcing Cities-I Global Services and Tholons identify the best 50 emerging outsourcing cities. The study also lists the best cities for outsourcing specific functions. |
Global Services
April 21, 2008
Amrita Singh |
Outsourcing Goes Rural Amidst barns and ranches, livestock and corncobs could lie the foundation of the next big services outsourcing, as concerns about rising costs drive companies to look at viable options in small towns and rural areas in both the U.S. and Asia. |
IndustryWeek
September 14, 2011 |
Time To Tell Your CPOs to Collaborate With Suppliers How to create value by collaborating inside and outside the organization. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
The Do-It-Yourself Guide Is it always cheaper to farm it out, or should some things stay in-house? Here are six ways to help crack the "make or buy" mystery. |
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
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
October 29, 2007
Deborah Kops |
If the Shoe Fits, Wear it Is there a predictive fit between such characteristics as culture, measurement systems, ways of working, procurement strategy and the type of global services solutions specific companies should implement? |
Global Services
July 30, 2007 |
Outsourcing in a Vacuum The 1990s created a legacy of billions of dollars worth of outsourcing contracts that are now approaching renewal. How can organizations take re-sourcing or in-sourcing decisions when a large part of knowledge resides with the existing provider? |
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 |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Bob Cecil |
Value Judgment Assessments can help shared services add more value. Here's how. |
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. |
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 |
