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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. |
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. |
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. |
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Jim Middlemiss |
Outsourcing: Captive Sites The newest outsourcing trend is the building of captive sites, in which brokerage firms essentially expand their operations, taking on their own space and employees in a foreign country rather than using the services of a third-party service provider. |
Wall Street & Technology October 20, 2006 Ira Lehrman |
Ask The Experts Question: What are the risks and challenges of building and maintaining a captive application-development facility in the contemporary outsourcing environment? |
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. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 Rick A. Jaye |
Captivating Captives Publicly traded Fortune 500 firms know the benefits of captive casualty insurance companies (captives). Now successful small to midsize businesses are discovering many of the benefits larger companies have long enjoyed. |
FAO Today Mar/Apr 2008 Michael J. Steer |
Picking the Right Model There is a definite shift toward a more sophisticated and segmented view of processes outsourcing with the relatively unsophisticated model of "all or nothing" morphing into a more hybrid solution. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 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? |
CFO March 1, 2008 Kate O'Sullivan |
Offshoring Spreads Its Wings From East Asia to Eastern Europe, offshore outsourcing is taking off. |
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. |
Knowledge@Wharton June 18, 2003 |
The Little Start-up That Could A conversation with Raman Roy, father of Indian BPO -- Part 2 |
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. |
Global Services May 1, 2008 Ed Nair |
The U.S. Slowdown: Survive & Thrive The global services industry had its best two quarters ever. And, the next few would be marked by measured optimism. A look at how customers and service providers plan to respond to a slowdown. |
Bank Systems & Technology June 26, 2006 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Outsourcing Questions and answers about bank outsourcing. |
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 August 25, 2008 Imrana Khan |
Captives Refuse to Go Away Captives still continue to grow. However, one of the most promising outsourcing destinations, Latin America, witnessed no major captive announcement. |
Global Services January 1, 2008 Deborah Kops |
Higher Standards Companies often expect that moving to an outsourcing or offshoring model results in the services equivalent of scaling tall buildings in a single leap. Are these expectations reasonable? |
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. |
CIO May 12, 2009 Stephanie Overby |
The Truth About Obama's "Tax on Outsourcing" Misconceptions about President Barack Obama's plan to close overseas business tax loopholes abound. CIO.com sets the record straight about the five most common misperceptions. |
Global Services November 26, 2007 |
The Future of Engineering Services Outsourcing By 2010, expect to see further evidence of the transformation of the offshore engineering services market as it learns to meet the increasingly diverse and increasingly strategic needs of global corporations. |
Insurance & Technology September 14, 2004 Anthony O'Donnell |
The Power of One Creating a single, unified technology infrastructure built with an eye to future channels can make taking advantage of insurance market opportunities easier and much less costly. |
Global Services July 27, 2007 Amrita Singh |
Tax Relief for Captive BPOs in India The Supreme Court of India ruled last month that American investment bank Morgan Stanley would not have to pay tax in India on global income earned from transactions at its captive back-office unit. |
The Motley Fool April 16, 2009 Jim Royal |
Outsource Your Offshoring Maybe it's time to outsource your offshoring investing into high-quality businesses that move your capital to the most efficient areas. |