Best Practices and Resources for smart outsourcing
Outsourcing to external contractors can be very helpful for your company. It allows you to give the responsibility for a number of tasks onto someone else. This allows your business to focus more on i…
Outsourcing is still a smart way to manage business processes regardless of the frequent backlash that it gets in the media.
In order to make outsourcing successful, a contract should be in place…
How much of your time do you want to spend rifling through papers and looking at lists of potential clients? That used to be the doorway to generating leads (and then sales). But time is money.
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In a recent Computerworld article, EquaTerra highlighted its "Speed Sourcing" concept – an accelerated process to complete outsourcing deals. The practice, whereby the entire procurement an…
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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 …
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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…
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 development expertise.
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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." To thos…
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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…
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…