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Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles? Title: Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on May 19, 2009

© Urban Mixer In a recent Computerworld article, EquaTerra highlighted its "Speed Sourcing" concept - an accelerated process to complete outsourcing deals. The practice, whereby the entire p...

 

8 Mistakes Title: 8 Mistakes
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on March 10, 2009

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5964395 While an article like this shows up in the outsourcing press on a regular basis, this one, in GlobalServices, is a good, succinct summary of eight of the ...

 

Due Diligence in the post-Satyam World Title: Due Diligence in the post-Satyam World
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on January 19, 2009

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 7835377 In a recent article published in InformationWeek, Bob Evans offers 10 tips on outsourcing. None of these are new - in fact, they represent perennial advi...

 

Going to China for Engineering Title: Going to China for Engineering
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on September 22, 2008

© meta viendo Jeff Burk, the CIO of NeatReceipts (the folks that sell receipt scanners in airport kiosks and electronics retailers) has this interesting perspective about going to China for developmen...

 

The Problem of Silos in Outsourcing Title: The Problem of Silos in Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on July 21, 2008

© Zoom Zoom In a recent posting, Cathy Tombohm of Gartner is quoted as saying "[w]e strongly advocate a joint approach by finance leaders and their CIO to ensure that BPO deals are successful.&qu...

 

Disaster Recovery and Outsourcing Title: Disaster Recovery and Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Gary Zeiss, Esq. on July 2, 2008

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Jerry Sharp In a recent article, Zach Church described how difficult it is for CIO's to get disaster recovery funding, particularly in these difficult economic time...

 

3 Steps for Successful IT Outsourcing Title: 3 Steps for Successful IT Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on May 8, 2008

Many companies go astray when it comes to IT outsourcing simply because they do not know what direction to take. In this article written by Gemma Simpson, the author shares 3 basic steps in IT outsou...

 

Strategic Outsourcing for Manufacturing Title: Strategic Outsourcing for Manufacturing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on October 31, 2007

As I've mentioned before and even on my previous posts, strategy in outsourcing is important because it keeps you above your game. In manufacturing, this kind of thinking is also applicable thus t...

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After Outsourcing Deals: What Comes Next? Title: After Outsourcing Deals: What Comes Next?
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on October 23, 2007

Many companies are complacent that after outsourcing deals, all they have to do is relax and reap the benefits of outsourcing. This is a very BIG misconception. Outsourcing as I've mentioned is n...

 

IT Outsourcing as a Sanction Title: IT Outsourcing as a Sanction
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on October 5, 2007

According to the research study done by Forrester, some companies are outsourcing their IT functions as a "sanction" or Punishment for in-house IT outsourcing that lacks quality. Though tha...

 

How to Have "OK" Outsourcing Title: How to Have "OK" Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on October 1, 2007

The good news is that outsourcing relationships - when properly planned, executed and measured - not only reduce costs, but also build value and drive business success. This sentence from the artic...

 

Are you Ready for Outsourcing? Title: Are you Ready for Outsourcing?
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on September 24, 2007

This is the first question that companies should ask before they should consider outsourcing as one of their business strategy. When considering outsourcing, there are already signs which shows your...

 

Communication: Vital to Outsourcing Title: Communication: Vital to Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on September 17, 2007

As the title shows, communication is a very important part of the outsourcing industry because it enables organization to have an organized way of relaying message as well as in executing different r...

 

Outsourcing and Project Management Title: Outsourcing and Project Management
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on September 13, 2007

Outsourcing and Project management has a strong connection considering that project management is a great contributor for the success of outsourcing deals. This article entitled Agile Outsourcing: ...

 

Standard Checking in Outsourcing Title: Standard Checking in Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on September 9, 2007

Checking the quality of your outsourced projects as well as making sure that the company is getting the outsourcing work that they want. Ensuring that you are getting this service is necessary for co...

 

Outsourcing is All About Customer Service Title: Outsourcing is All About Customer Service
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on September 5, 2007

Not considering cost, customer service should be a very big factor when it comes to outsourcing. The saying, "the customer is always right" should still be implemented in BPO deals and compa...

 

IT Outsourcing for Successful SMEs Title: IT Outsourcing for Successful SMEs
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on August 30, 2007

Small and Medium-sized enterprises could have their chance of achieving extraordinary growth provided that they would turn to outsourcing. This was the conclusion of the research study done by the N...

 

The Work Towards Outsourcing Title: The Work Towards Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on August 27, 2007

Contrary to popular beliefs, outsourcing is not a miracle cure to any outsourcing deal. In order for outsourcing to work, you must exert effort to ensure that outsourcing would work for your advantag...

 

Checklist in Outsourcing Title: Checklist in Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on August 14, 2007

A checklist is considered important because it includes the important details which could be possibly overlooked. The benefits of a checklist is very important be it as a grocery checklist or an outso...

 

The Importance of the Outsourcing Directory Title: The Importance of the Outsourcing Directory
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on August 9, 2007

Yes, even companies should have their own "black book" when it comes to picking and choosing their outsourcing providers. Personally, a directory is an organized way of collecting and retr...

 

Research on Outsourcing Title: Research on Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on July 30, 2007

If you would notice, I am really fond of quoting research results when it comes to outsourcing because as we all know, outsourcing is relatively new as compared to other industries. Through the help o...

 

Outsourcing Documentary Title: Outsourcing Documentary
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on July 26, 2007

"> While searching YouTube, I stumbled upon this documentary entitled "The Other Side of Outsourcing" which shows how outsourcing has changed and is continuously changing India in d...

 

IT Outsourcing Don't s Title: IT Outsourcing Don't s
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on July 25, 2007

Of course, if there are do' s, there are also dont' s. That is why I am also going to share with you the list of don't s done by Brian Skelly. This list would help companies as well as pe...

 

IT Outsourcing Do's Title: IT Outsourcing Do's
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on July 25, 2007

Stumbling upon an article which features their own list of do's and dont's is a very fun thing for me. I know it sounds strange but I just love reading different lists of people because they h...

 

Workplace Distractions Title: Workplace Distractions
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on July 23, 2007

You might wonder why I decided to blog about this kind of topic in outsourcing. Well, let me just tell you that this is applicable in the outsourcing workplace. The outsourcing industry is generally ...

 

Achieving Goals in Outsourcing Title: Achieving Goals in Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on July 20, 2007

Most companies usually succumb to outsourcing in order to achieve their company's goals and making sure that the company is working towards a common goal. This piece written by Susan Mclean shows...

 

The Paradigm of IT Outsourcing Title: The Paradigm of IT Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on July 20, 2007

While searching for a worthwhile news regarding outsourcing, I was able to stumble upon this article entitled Defining the next paradigm of IT outsourcing which focused on the evolution of IT outsourc...

 

Outsourcing Your Homework Title: Outsourcing Your Homework
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on July 5, 2007

Forget about business outsourcing deals, kids are now learning about outsourcing in their own little way. According to article written by Seemi Pasha, kids are now outsourcing their homework to othe...

 

Additional Cost in Outsourcing Title: Additional Cost in Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on June 30, 2007

Avoiding additional cost in outsourcing is inevitable. This is something which companies should realize when dealing with their outsourcing business. The best way to deal with additional cost is to ma...

 

Benchmarking in Outsourcing Title: Benchmarking in Outsourcing
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Filed in archive Best Practice by Carol Kendrick on June 30, 2007

Money, as mentioned is very important in outsourcing. In turn, charges and other additional cost in doing this kind of business strategy should not be too cheap nor too expensive because the outsourci...


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