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Outsourcing vs. Contracting The Outsourcing Weblog

I've just received a review copy of Peter Bendor-Samuel's Turning Lead into Gold: The Demystification of Outsourcing, a book about outsourcing written 1999 that is still very valid today. Source: TurningLeadintoGold.com [...] Read More


Outsourcing: What it Means to Outsourcing Employees The Outsourcing Weblog

People who are now working with call centers or other types of BPO-related business are the ones who are currently reaping the advantage of outsourcing. Before, these people were unsure of their future because their country's economy was not stable thus causing them to fear their stability over their work. Aside from that, fresh graduates from these countries also believed that they have no future because of the lack of [...] Read More


Unilever Signs 7 Year Contract with IBM for financial transactional services outsourcing The Outsourcing Weblog

Unilever has signed a seven-year contract to outsource key parts of its financial transactional services to IBM. Under the agreement, IBM will provide financial services such as Purchase to Pay, General Accounting and Bill to Cash. These services will be delivered from IBM centers in Portugal, Poland and India. The outsourcing deal covers over 20 European countries and will be implemented over two years beginning 2006. Cost savings from this [...] Read More


The Out-Sourcer Next Door Home Based Business

Out-sourcing has become a dirty word in American business culture. Out-sourcing means cutting corners, under-handed deals and providing a less-than acceptable product. Unfortunately, a lot of these accusations are based on fact. But just because many out-sourcing companies are less than reputable doesn't mean that you can't find a great company to help you out with the day-to-day business chores you hate. Remember, outsourcing doesn't have to be [...] Read More


Bundled Offering Business Process Outsourcing + Information Technology Outsourcing The CIO Weblog

Recently came across this report by TPI on the budling of BPO+ITO, this is a trend that is increasingly become very popular, one example was the merging of Infosys's BPO division Progeon into the main IT Services business. When you think about the this from a different perspective, the whole budling concept can probably be termed as "on+demand business function"....We are truly moving into an OnDEMAND world. Your thoughts? The key points [...] Read More