BPOTiger: January 2007 Archives

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Jan31	Coley Pharmaceutical will outsource drug R&D functions Krissy January 31, 2007 Know More: News, Pharmaceutical 2.0, Pharmaceutical I really don't know whether the well publicized research and development of hepatitis C vaccine was of any importance or not or why the firm Coley Pharmaceutical axed it at the mid way. But it seems there is something real real fishy going on inside the company, if shedding one fifth of the workforce carry any hint. That's not all, the company has also faired miserably in two clinical trials of Actilon (CPG 10101) where a DNA-based drug candidate was designed to activate the immune system. Why the later one was important because Actilon was one drug the company was making without ant external help. It was truly its baby but it faltered badly. Coley Pharmaceutical has decided that enough is enough and opted for outsourcing route for future drug analysis, research and development. Although this decision will cost Coley an estimated £1.1m (€1.7m) in severance costs, the company will save approximately $15m (€11.5m) in development costs. This money will be enough to finance Coley for around three years. Read Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan31	Domestic outsourcing demand rising in India Krissy January 31, 2007 Along with North America and European market, the Asian market is also catching up with more demands in the outsourcing arena. Now setting aside the idea of whether the 'lumpy Asian' market is dependable on the long run or not,... Continue Reading Posted at 8:09 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BPO Council for Philippines Krissy January 31, 2007 In his first ever visit to New York, Ambassador Willy C. Gaa seems upbeat with the prospect of Philippines companies' performance matrix on outsourcing and over all health of the country's economic prospect. In a private briefing hosted by Citigroup for... Continue Reading Posted at 8:03 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Kimberly-Clark opts for Accenture for HR Services Krissy January 31, 2007 In line with Accenture's big Indian plan comes Kimberly-Clark Corp's seven year LONG outsourcing contract for its human resource service. Kimberly-Clark Corp, the maker of Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers has been wanting to cut costs on its human resource... Continue Reading Posted at 7:53 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Accenture and India: A floodgate to open? Krissy January 31, 2007 After Accenture's decision to have more workers in India then anywhere else in the world, analysts have started giving their thoughts on the issue. Author Malcolm Gladwell calls it a tipping point. What is a tipping point? It's like a... Continue Reading Posted at 7:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan30	Call Centers: How to be your boss’s favorite Krissy January 30, 2007 In call centers everything is in large scale, thousands are coming, hundreds are leaving, dozens of process, so many call center customer service agents doing the same work day after day (or should I say night after night) and everyone... Continue Reading Posted at 12:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	No megadeals, but megascope in 2007 Krissy January 30, 2007 "Megascope" deals will be the new yardstick of big outsourcing contract signings, declares consulting firm Gartner. Megascope are deals with more than $1 billion contract value, in the light of selective outsourcing model. The Gartner outsourcing summit will be held... Continue Reading Posted at 10:44 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank to get improved ATM network from NCR Krissy January 30, 2007 Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) has signed a multi-year ATM outsourcing project with NCR Corporation. In a press relase it informs that NCR under the contract will keep vigil over ADCB's ATM estate on a 7x24x365 basis by deploying advanced... Continue Reading Posted at 10:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Accenture to hike headcount in India Krissy January 30, 2007 India is all set to become global software and outsourcing company Accenture's largest centre in the world. The consulting major surprising everyone plans to add a good 30 per cent more jobs in the country and thus taking the total... Continue Reading Posted at 7:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Emerging countries will lead in outsourcing Krissy January 30, 2007 Amidst well circulated rumor that some companies are taking their back office and contact center office back home, one research firm however, contradictorily affirms that the off shoring trend will only go up and emerging nations will get the most... Continue Reading Posted at 7:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Never lose the grip on knowledge and insight while outsourcing Krissy January 30, 2007 Along with growing (and probably pervasive) IT outsourcing practices comes operational complexity with higher risks. Familiar (and proven, tried, tested??) risks can be handled with experience and expertise, but its unforeseen and less understood risks, which can be considered more... Continue Reading Posted at 7:27 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan29	US will purchase more IT goods and services: Study Krissy January 29, 2007 This Forrester Research study findings will surely make everyone glad. It says that U.S. purchases of IT goods and services will grow by five percent this year and will reach $1.55 trillion. On the other hand, its reigning good news... Continue Reading Posted at 10:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Bacolod City will be an outsourcing hub: City councilor Krissy January 29, 2007 Success of Bangalore (or Bangaluru) and Gurgaon and smaller cities like Vizag (HSBC resides here) have now become inspiration for cities like Bacolod. The councilor of the city Jocelle Batapa-Sigue wants to make her beloved city a busy outsourcing hub. ... Continue Reading Posted at 10:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	CFS reaches to a peaceful outsourcing solution with its unions Krissy January 29, 2007 At least this one has seemed to make a deal with its union upon the issue of outsourcing. Co-operative Financial Services (CMS) and its unions Amicus, The Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G) and the National Association of Co-operative Officials... Continue Reading Posted at 10:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	India: Get outsourcing deals? Now buy our products Krissy January 29, 2007 For foreign publishers outsourcing to India has dual advantage. One, they get the job done at the fraction of the cost. And two, many American and European publishers has realized the fact that (as if they have awaken to the... Continue Reading Posted at 9:09 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hinduja TMT and Centirc forms a legal outsourcing JV Krissy January 29, 2007 The market seems to be big if you believe the estimate given by Forrester Research. It says the current annual value of legal outsourcing which stands at $80 million now may scale up to $4 billion by 2015. No wonder... Continue Reading Posted at 9:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan28	Amtex to enter outsourcing arena Krissy January 28, 2007 Amtex Systems Inc, an IT consulting and services firm from New York having offshore development centres in Chennai and New Delhi, India has unveiled its plan to enter into outsourcing arena. Amtex wants to earn more revenue (this is no... Continue Reading Posted at 9:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing sailing smooth... Krissy January 28, 2007 The news that was doing the round sometime back that companies are now opting for lesser outsourcing deals. But it did not throw enough light on the fact that now more and more clients opting for specialized outsourcing deals in... Continue Reading Posted at 9:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Indian soft cos getting into application outsourcing Krissy January 28, 2007 A new study from Forrester suggests that Indian software companies are doing good business in the field of application outsourcing space. Hmm…after showing the middle finger to the more established blue chip software and technology providers in the field of... Continue Reading Posted at 9:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	MPS school custodians fight outsourcing move Krissy January 28, 2007 The Midland Public School is pondering over the idea of deploying a third party custodian company. This is has taken the good nights sleep from the available custodians who may have been altered at the expense of cheaper cost. The... Continue Reading Posted at 9:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Most banks have set up at least one outsourcing center Krissy January 28, 2007 Outsourcing is important for all kinds of firms and banks are no different. Most of the international banks have set up huge outsourcing centers in countries like India, Philippines, Russia etc. A study done by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in 2005... Continue Reading Posted at 5:19 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan27	India poised for clinical trial outsourcing Krissy January 27, 2007 Nothing new in this, another segment, another survey and India has been chosen as the future hotspot. According to a study done by consulting firm AT Kearney India will become no.2 destination for clinical trial outsourcing. I am sure you... Continue Reading Posted at 10:19 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hartford outsourcing contract with IBM may displace workers Krissy January 27, 2007 The Hartford Financial Services Group’s decision of outsourcing data services will make more than 100 workers redundant. It has signed a five year long deal with IBM under which the later will take care of databases, applications, backup, recovery and... Continue Reading Posted at 5:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan26	Outsourcing of email security Krissy January 26, 2007 Email is bane or boom….obviously a great invention (if I term it that way) for the mankind and a great great headache for email administrators. More than we the users are inconvenienced by email spam or malicious attack, it's them... Continue Reading Posted at 10:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BMO Financial ropes in SEI Investments Company Krissy January 26, 2007 SEI Investments Company, a provider of asset management services and investment technology solutions has been selected by BMO Financial Group Unit's Harris Investment Inc. to provide operations outsourcing services for the company's separate account business, SEI Investments. SEI consults corporations,... Continue Reading Posted at 10:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Unilever to engage HP for outsourcing deal Krissy January 26, 2007 London-based fast moving consumer goods king The Unilever Group plans to bypass some of its IT infrastructure operations to Hewlett-Packard Co. It seems last year's agreement with Accenture Ltd. has brought good results for Unilever. In late 2005 Unilever has... Continue Reading Posted at 10:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	HP and Unilever Act in first half of 2007 Krissy January 26, 2007 Hewlett-Packard is all set to bag a contract to conduct due diligence for enterprise computing for FMCG major Unilever. Unilever which has been signing many outsourcing contracts on different verticals since December 2005 will ask HP to undertake works on... Continue Reading Posted at 7:54 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Pfizer to save $2bn by outsourcing Krissy January 26, 2007 Leaving behind its Brooklyn drug manufacturing factory Pfizer is all geared up to deliver plethora of outsourcing opportunity for contract manufacturing organisations (CMOs) in low-cost destinations by cutting at least 10,000 jobs. Pfizer with the rightsizing and consolidation (outsourcing that... Continue Reading Posted at 7:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan25	Success waits for European language speakers Krissy January 25, 2007 Evalueserve, the global research solutions recently in a published report said that India will need more than 160,000 European language speakers for its burgeoning IT, BPO and KPO industries. Along with English learning of French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch or... Continue Reading Posted at 8:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	CSC signs $378 million BlueScope Steel outsourcing contract Krissy January 25, 2007 Bluescope Steel which has been a CSC customer since 2000 has inked a $378 million information technology outsourcing contract with CSC Australia. CSC will take care range of technology services which include software applications development, end user support and disaster... Continue Reading Posted at 8:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hartford to outsource database and application work to IBM Krissy January 25, 2007 Property and life insurer Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. publishes report for fourth-quarter profit last week. It is believed that Hartford will do good smooth business because the quarter was free of the catastrophes. No hurricanes like 2005. Weather was... Continue Reading Posted at 8:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Racism and outsourcing Krissy January 25, 2007 We look for reasons to hate people and when we find that, we release. Hmmm…racial remarks were never new for the call center agents working in offshore outsourcing companies, but after Shilpa Shetty-Jade Goody-Big Brother-Channel4 incident now the stories have... Continue Reading Posted at 8:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Vertex is top 10 Utility & Energy BPO Outsourcing Provider Krissy January 25, 2007 The best seller book in the outsourcing world 'Black Book of Outsourcing' from the Brown-Wilson Group publication has given Vertex the highest rank. International provider of business process outsourcing and technology services and one of the UK's major customer management... Continue Reading Posted at 8:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan24	EquaTerra fourth quarter survey not predicting high BPO growth Krissy January 24, 2007 EquaTerra's quarter four Outsourcing Pulse Survey predicts that a big demand growth is not prevalent in the overall process outsourcing (BPO) and IT outsourcing market. Almost half of the company's advisors felt that the demand level may be up but... Continue Reading Posted at 10:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China to outsource Olympic coach Krissy January 24, 2007 Well, I am not sure if this one can in all true sense mark as outsourcing or not, but one thing is sure, the very 'outsourcing' word is spreading fast to different avenues and also been used for most strange... Continue Reading Posted at 10:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Siemens launched Siemens Business Service (SBS) Krissy January 24, 2007 Siemens is integrating. It has now integrated all of its worldwide IT services and software activities which includes Siemens Business Services (SBS). The new division will include Program and System Engineering, Siemens Information Systems, Development Innovation and Projects, and Business... Continue Reading Posted at 10:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Healthcare growing in India Krissy January 24, 2007 When you get to hear stories of inefficiencies, excessive administrative expenses, inflated price, ineffective management, inappropriate care and wastage in the healthcare sector in the countries like US and Canada, be sure that the effect is pushing the growth of... Continue Reading Posted at 7:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	TCS feels outsourcing deals helped profit Krissy January 24, 2007 India's IT and outsourcing company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has reported a net profit of Rs 1,116 crore for the third quarter ended December 2006 as compared to Rs 1,019 crore, quarter to quarter basis. While briefing to the media... Continue Reading Posted at 7:03 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan23	Storage outsourcing of data rising Krissy January 23, 2007 Outsourcing market analysts have noticed the revival of storage service provider industry. The research firm TheInfoPro has found that a good 20% of Fortune 1000 organizations outsource at least a part of their storage management activities. The very trend of... Continue Reading Posted at 9:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How Does Outsourcing and managing of IT Infrastructure Pay Off? Krissy January 23, 2007 Well, now you can distinguish the market with majority and minority groups. In majority lies those IT organizations who opted outsourcing for their strategic development (??) and minority groups are those who are not practicing the theory. Aberdeen research in... Continue Reading Posted at 9:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Games market in China to soar Krissy January 23, 2007 Pearl Research, business intelligence and consulting firm predicts that the gaming development market in China (which includes online, packaged PC and video games, or in one word, all kinds of gaming) will cross a whopping $1.3 billion by 2008. In... Continue Reading Posted at 9:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BLG reviving backing on outsourcing Krissy January 23, 2007 Barlow Lyde & Gilbert is set for a new makeover. Well lots of new things are on the anvil as the restructuring and expansion of the commercial litigation team goes all along with the sprucing up of the very recently... Continue Reading Posted at 9:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	AIG Europe, Accenture Sign 10-Year Outsourcing Agreement Krissy January 23, 2007 Accenture won a 10 year outsourcing deal from AIG Europe. The contract is worth approximately £50 million. Under the contract Accenture will set up a comprehensive IT platform and insurance support services to insurance provider's wing called AIG Entrepreneur. This... Continue Reading Posted at 9:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan22	Ukraine outsourcing: 2006 trends, 2007 predictions Krissy January 22, 2007 Along with Russia outsourcing market of Ukraine has been also growing at a steady rate for last five years. The big percent of IT and software products from Ukraine is being exported to USA and Western Europe. In 2006 the... Continue Reading Posted at 9:54 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Riots don't have affects on outsourcing in Bangalore Krissy January 22, 2007 A riot between Hindu and Muslim did not affect the function of outsourcing in Bangalore. The riot between Hindu and Muslim started when Muslims began a procession against the hanging of Saddam Hussain. The procession turned violent when Muslims attacked... Continue Reading Posted at 9:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Bandwidth problems in outsourcing Krissy January 22, 2007 Countries inspired by success stories of India, Philippines and China before hastily setting up of national outsourcing nodal body should remember that more than marketing its infrastructure which is of paramount importance. One of such infrastructures are called 'bandwidth.' One... Continue Reading Posted at 9:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	End of outsourcing near? Krissy January 22, 2007 Will it become a death call for the countries which are heavily dependant on outsourced call center work? Is the dream run of third and developing countries like India and Philippines going to be over very soon? Will the trend... Continue Reading Posted at 9:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Indian IT outsourcing market shown good result in Q4 Krissy January 22, 2007 The fourth quarter of 2006 saw a bit decline in outsourcing deals, though not a big dip but somewhat down. India however continues to show robust growth even at the end of the year. Companies like Infosys, TCS and Wipro... Continue Reading Posted at 9:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan21	Milk outsourcing Krissy January 21, 2007 Hawaii's schoolchildren may not be able to gulp anymore locally processed milk which they have been for years. The state officials are considering outsourcing the school milk contract to Mainland providers. Surely a bolt from the blue not only to... Continue Reading Posted at 9:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	University launches online outsourcing certification program Krissy January 21, 2007 Outsourcing professionals will now be able to get a certification online from New York's Syracuse University . In conjunction with The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals the university will start certification master class from next month. By successfully completing the... Continue Reading Posted at 9:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing does not save money Krissy January 21, 2007 For God's sake please believe that outsourcing actually does not save any money. Qucirca's Clive Longbotom is on the view that globalization means wage inflation and it will take place much more quickly than before. According to him the practice... Continue Reading Posted at 9:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan20	Five year outsourcing contract between Unisys and Iux-airport Krissy January 20, 2007 Technology services and solutions company Unisys announced a deal with Iux-Airport. Iux-Airport which undertakes the new airport terminal in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg scheduled for 2008 opening has awarded Unisys a five year outsourcing contract. Unisys, renowned for its... Continue Reading Posted at 10:20 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Luxoft cracks 94% retention of employees Krissy January 20, 2007 When the leading names of software and information technology finds it difficult to retain employees, when attrition level is reaching all time heights, Russia's leading software outsourcing company Luxoft managed to achieve 94% attrition rates. Luxoft, delivers IT outsourcing services... Continue Reading Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan19	Spanish speakers to be roped in to drive Greyhound Krissy January 19, 2007 This time instead of India or China offloading of bus driver's work going to non unionized and cheap Spanish speaking drivers. Dallas based Greyhound Lines Inc. wants to subcontract not few but a total of 3,000 drivers. The premise is... Continue Reading Posted at 11:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fleetwood Folding Trailers to outsource 50 jobs to Mexico Krissy January 19, 2007 This is more about manual labor and neither falls into the information technology or sourcing. Fleetwood Folding Trailers have decided to outsource approximately 50 sewing jobs to Texas or Mexico. "Everyone at the plant regrets that the decision came down... Continue Reading Posted at 10:02 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	F&A outsourcing market to grow by 30%: Everest Study Krissy January 19, 2007 The result is so to say a bit predicted. Everest Research Institute, the consulting firm has predicted that overall the global finance and accounting outsourcing market will grow by more than 30 percent in 2007. In 2005 the global finance... Continue Reading Posted at 10:02 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Infosys' good show in third quarter Krissy January 19, 2007 The barometer of Indian outsourcing health can be perceived by the third quarter result of Infosys Technologies. The forecast may read like this: Budgetary estimates are still rising for offshore outsourcing, and India's leading IT and outsourcing companies still struggling... Continue Reading Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	CSC signs $50 million outsourcing contract with John Hancock Financial Services Krissy January 19, 2007 CSC will continue to support Wealth Management Applications for One Million Annuities and Positions John Hancock for Growth. The services include applications development and maintenance, mainframe infrastructure support, 24x7 help desk support, and network connectivity between CSC and John Hancock's... Continue Reading Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan18	Wipro Infotech branding big on TOS Krissy January 18, 2007 Wipro calls it total outsourcing or TOS. And it seems the branding is delivering lot of good to its Wipro Division which particularly caters to India, Middle East and APAC market. That's not all, better news are also round the... Continue Reading Posted at 11:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BSN Medical inked an outsourcing contract with Unisys Krissy January 18, 2007 BSN Medical GmbH, a medical products manufacturer from Germany has selected Unisys for a five year long IT outsourcing contract which is worth $35 million. Unisys, worldwide IT consulting services and solution company will deliver BSN Medical complete suite of... Continue Reading Posted at 11:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Check outsourcing service for Ruesch clients Krissy January 18, 2007 Ruesch International which delivers business-to-business payment solutions to facilitate global commerce unveiled this unique check outsourcing service which will be available in combination with Ruesch's ePayment Solution platform, or as a stand-alone offering. Easy time for Ruesch clients who can... Continue Reading Posted at 11:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Clinical trial outsourcing Krissy January 18, 2007 AT Kearney's study says that India has become the second most preferred destinations for clinical trials amongst pharmaceutical companies. China tops the while Russia holds the third position. The study which has been conducted across 15 countries found that though... Continue Reading Posted at 11:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Deal between WM-Data and Volvo Car Krissy January 18, 2007 WM-data, sister concern of LogicaCMG company has made formal announcement of bagging an outsourcing contract from Volvo Car Corporation. This is not the first time, the firm in 2002 also undertook outsourced operations and support services to from Volvo. WM-data... Continue Reading Posted at 11:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan17	Supply chain and outsourcing Krissy January 17, 2007 This Supply Chain Consortium survey has dug deep into the world of distribution center (DU) outsourcing and not much surprisingly has come up with the result that "the key to success in outsourcing distribution centers is communication between the company... Continue Reading Posted at 10:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Can outsourcing deals be built on level playing fields Krissy January 17, 2007 Pace Harmon an outsourcing advisory firm has asked organizations to check whether their outsourcing deals are built on a level playing field with their vendors. The firm wants to establish a level playing field for the companies that are negotiating... Continue Reading Posted at 10:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Air NZ-Union talk on outsourcing continues Krissy January 17, 2007 The Air New Zealand crisis is still hanging in the sky and parties on both side of the fence are mutually not finding enough reasons to go for a settlement. Neither the union nor the management seems have decided to... Continue Reading Posted at 10:40 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Advisory firms also grow with outsourcing growth Krissy January 17, 2007 As the money keeps pouring (more than half a trillion dollar value in the total contract value) in the outsourcing world some middle level (with some dare devil junior ones too) IT business executives are fast turning into outsourcing intermediaries.... Continue Reading Posted at 10:40 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Vanco signed a deal with Vitalo Group Krissy January 17, 2007 Vanco, a global virtual network operator has signed a five year long outsourcing deal with Vitalo Group which manufactures plastic parts and systems. Vanco will design, source, integrate and manage a network solution which will cover countries like Belgium, China,... Continue Reading Posted at 10:40 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan16	TCS wins Banco Pichincha contract Krissy January 16, 2007 This deal considered to be the biggest outsourcing deal Latin America has ever seen. The deal values worth $140 million. The agreement is inked between Banco Pichincha, Ecuador's largest private bank and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global information... Continue Reading Posted at 10:40 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Capgemini bagged Kemira Oyj contract Krissy January 16, 2007 Capgemini, one of the world's premier providers of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services has bagged an outsourcing contract from Kemira Oyj, a Finnish chemicals group. The value of the contract is not declared but in its media report Cap Gemini... Continue Reading Posted at 10:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Activity accumulates, but contract size dwindles Krissy January 16, 2007 In line with good growth rate outsourcing world will also remember the year 2006 as the year where single greatest number of agreements done. A good 11% up from 2005. The study done by TPI, also noticed that in the... Continue Reading Posted at 8:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Union calls Air NZ outsourcing plan only an attempt to cut wages Krissy January 16, 2007 The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Unions (EPMU) which represent Air New Zealand ground service workers says the proposal to outsource ground handling services to multi national company like Swissport is just a thinly veiled attempt to cut wages. With the... Continue Reading Posted at 8:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	United Utilities sells Vertex for £217.5mn Krissy January 16, 2007 Wondering if a profit making outsourcing business unit becomes a head sore for a company only because it wants to concentrate on its core areas. After much dillydallying (since December that is) UK based United Utilities which operates electricity distribution... Continue Reading Posted at 7:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan15	US healthcare BPO growing Krissy January 15, 2007 Healthcare outsourcing has seen some change in the last couple of years. From low end back office support and medical transcription the industry is now heading towards medical analytics and clinical processing. Healthcare outsourcing contract to India from US has... Continue Reading Posted at 10:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Performance incentive for outsourcing relationship Krissy January 15, 2007 A nice article on how to establish a good and productive relationship with the outsource service provider. Its performance incentive. Performance incentive like any other industry and segment also should work in outsourcing, as the writer rightly says (it) can... Continue Reading Posted at 10:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Indiana Univ to outsource bookstore jobs Krissy January 15, 2007 Some employees of local college campus are worried that their job may be outsourced to some other countries. The Indiana University Board of Trustees are planning to outsource some university staff jobs along with some other positions at IUSB. IUSB... Continue Reading Posted at 10:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Book on outsourcing Krissy January 15, 2007 As the outsourcing is growing by leaps and bounds new breed of writers (along with the tried and tested ones) are writing books on the burgeoning industry. The premise may be the industry value web or ecosystems, the rise of... Continue Reading Posted at 10:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Engineering – design and process outsourcing in India Krissy January 15, 2007 Along with application engineering or homologation of an existing product being "Indianised" comes engineering design and process outsourcing contracts. German automotive giant Volkswagen (VW) is all ready to set up a 230 acre, €415 million Chakan manufacturing plant. The establishment... Continue Reading Posted at 10:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan14	Dubai strengthens its data protection law Krissy January 14, 2007 After many reported malfunction and hacking issues the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) has unveiled an improved Data Protection Law. What's more it has appointed a Data Protection Commissioner also who will oversee the administration by the DIFC Authority."Both of... Continue Reading Posted at 10:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Freelance outsourcing Krissy January 14, 2007 With lot of new entrepreneurs joining into IT and ITes industries outsourcing of functions like Writing, Accounts, database development, Technical writing, Web Designing, Software Development, Web development, Translation Services, Fashion Designing, to Search Engine Optimization, Copywriting have become pretty common... Continue Reading Posted at 10:06 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Ayala Corp acquires Affinity Express Krissy January 14, 2007 The Filipinos have come and how. Chicago-based provider of pre-media and design services (or call it a one stop graphic shop) Affinity Express Inc. was bought over by a Philippines-based company LiveIt Solutions, the holding unit for Ayala Corp's investments... Continue Reading Posted at 8:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Convergys voted as No.1 outsourcing service provider Krissy January 14, 2007 Convergys Corporation, which employs more than 68,000 employees in more than 75 customer contact centers has been voted as the HR outsourcing vendor by Singapore’s Human Resource Magazine. HR professionals also voted the firm as best outsourcing vendor in the... Continue Reading Posted at 8:05 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	IT market to gorw in Asia Krissy January 14, 2007 According to IDC, the spend on IT market in Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) will reach 2 billion in 2007, a growth of over 10% than 2006. The study further says that outsourcing and BPO vendors are now increasingly making... Continue Reading Posted at 7:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan13	Firms benefit from increased outsourcing competition Krissy January 13, 2007 Business houses are experiencing that outsourcing processes are becoming cheaper and more flexible. The last quarter trend of 2005 shows that clients are rejecting long and rigid contracts and preferring shorter service agreements delivered by specialized providers. 2006, for example,... Continue Reading Posted at 10:06 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing: Corporate greed at its worst Krissy January 13, 2007 Boston guild is calling so. Globe spokesman Alfred S. Larkin Jr. said 55 of the 125 jobs will be vanished in the Boston Globe/Worcester Telegram and Gazette buyout. The jobs will be outsourced to outside contractors. Boston Newspaper Guild president... Continue Reading Posted at 10:06 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Value of outsourcing contracts shrinks Krissy January 13, 2007 The final quarter of 2006 has seen worst outsourcing market conditions since 2002 in terms of value of awarded outsourcing contract. Also, new outsourcing contracts value also gone down 8% than 2005. The prevalent trend is shorter and smaller contracts.... Continue Reading Posted at 10:02 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fleetwood Folding Trailers to outsource 50 jobs to Mexico Krissy January 13, 2007 This is more about manual labor and neither falls into the information technology or sourcing. Fleetwood Folding Trailers have decided to outsource approximately 50 sewing jobs to Texas or Mexico. "Everyone at the plant regrets that the decision came down... Continue Reading Posted at 10:02 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	HP bagged $175 million contract from Rockwell Collins Krissy January 13, 2007 Rockwell Collins which creates innovative communication and aviation electronics solutions for both commercial and government applications has awarded a $175 million global service outsourcing contract to HP. HP will undertake industry standard solutions for IT infrastructure management which includes desk-side... Continue Reading Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan12	125 jobs die at Boston Globe Krissy January 12, 2007 Citing reasons like tough advertising scenario and weakening circulation rates the new publisher of Boston Globe, the New England Media Group, plans big cut, according to memos from publisher Steve Ainsley and editor Martin Baron. The group will cut about... Continue Reading Posted at 11:19 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Rockwell Collins: $175 million deal for HP Krissy January 12, 2007 This enlivens the scope of HP's outsourcing services which was of late kept in low profile. May be, an indication that its stagnant outsourcing business in getting steam once again. Hewlett Packard (HP) has bagged seven year long $175 million... Continue Reading Posted at 11:09 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Sandwell Council Selects BT, Liberata for IT Services Krissy January 12, 2007 After Birmingham City Council's last year's outsourcing deal of £475 million, another big outsourcing local council city outsourcing deal is on the offing. Sandwell Borough Council is all set to sign a £300 million outsourcing contract BT/Liberata partnership for a... Continue Reading Posted at 11:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Monroe County Council opposes IU outsourcing plan Krissy January 12, 2007 In a letter to the Indiana University, The Monroe County Council's all the seven members unanimously vehemently opposed the university's proposed outsourcing plan. Currently in consideration for outsourcing are both the university's motor pool and the bookstore which the authorities... Continue Reading Posted at 10:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Infosys records 20% growth rate in BPO, QoQ Krissy January 12, 2007 Indian IT and outsourcing company Infosys has disclosed its Q3 results. It has reported a growth of 5.81% in its net profit than the previous quarter. Revenues were up by 5.91% QoQ. When asked about how much did the outsourcing... Continue Reading Posted at 9:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan11	Should financial institutions take up enterprise security outsourcing? Krissy January 11, 2007 Now enterprise security has become the backbone for everyday concern, from the corner office to the boardroom. And amongst others, financial service institutions are finding it difficult to manage the enterprise security in house. The irony is that even when information... Continue Reading Posted at 10:02 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Japan Airlines to cut employee cost by $413 million Krissy January 11, 2007 Suddenly lot of activity happening in Japan Airlines Corp (JAL). First, to scale back its non-viation operations it has planned to sell of seven of its hotels in Tokyo. And now the big thing, JAL has decided to cut 3,000... Continue Reading Posted at 10:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Patent adherence programs get outsourced Krissy January 11, 2007 Pharmaceutical management consulting company Cutting Image Information in its latest study has found that 61% of the surveyed companies like Amgen, Pfizer, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca outsource some part of their material development activities, customer services, market research... Continue Reading Posted at 11:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Chinese outsourcing won't lead to brain drain Krissy January 11, 2007 Canadian and Chinese high-tech companies now want to get most out of each other. Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) feels this bilateral process will spruce up growth in Canada's IT sector. It is also felt that the process can accelerate... Continue Reading Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Mexico based Xinify Technologies, Inc. with Fortune 500 clients Krissy January 11, 2007 For traditional offshore outsourcing Mexico offers plethora of advantages along with loads of benefits which includes lower political risks, geographical variables, similar time zone, proximity to USA, cooperative legal systems, similar culture and identical and technical educational standards. What's more... Continue Reading Posted at 8:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan10	Australian outsourcing: Cost saving most important factor Krissy January 10, 2007 Australian companies which intend to do some outsourcing in 2007 have identified cost savings as the most important outsourcing variables. The Australian end user survey conducted by IDC informs. Though now the industry has moved up and has added more... Continue Reading Posted at 9:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Honduras call center outsourcing Krissy January 10, 2007 This news of opening up of new outsourcing call center coming directly from the horse's mouth. The writer tells that he himself met the client, discussed the project, spent 'two delightful days with the client' and hopeful that starts aggressively... Continue Reading Posted at 9:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	US top executives scared of outsourcing Krissy January 10, 2007 Contrary to the widespread belief that outsourcing practices actually will bring more good to countries, most US top executives (who earn $100k) are scared of the phenomenon. The recent survey by The Ladders indicates that outsourcing may will leave America... Continue Reading Posted at 9:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Innovation key for biopharma oustsourcers Krissy January 10, 2007 This New York Times report on the basis of the findings given by consulting firm Research and Markets has mentioned that 60% of industry executives feel that India will be the most attractive country for outsourcing. Along with rising costs... Continue Reading Posted at 9:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	ACS will host outsourcing event Krissy January 10, 2007 Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. or ACS, the IT and BPO service provider is about to host the inaugural meeting of the Dallas Area Chapter of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). The intention of the event is to promote... Continue Reading Posted at 9:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 9	Hollywood outsourced!!! Krissy January 9, 2007 When everyone is outsourcing to India can Hollywood be far behind? (from the gold rush that is) The scope is enormous, feels Pritish Nandy, chairman of a production house in India. According to him broadly scope lies in areas like,... Continue Reading Posted at 8:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Reverse outsourcing to US Krissy January 9, 2007 Heard of trends that go opposite to the mainstream? These days Hanna Global Solutions (HBS), a US based human resource management firm is serving more than 30,000 Indian employees from Infosys, Satyam, Wipro and Quintegra Solutions. Call it a perfect... Continue Reading Posted at 8:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	ACS gets Florida $87.3 million child health care deal Krissy January 9, 2007 Information technology company Affiliated Computer Services Inc.(ACS) has bagged an $87.3 million outsourcing contract to administer Florida's Child Health Insurance Program. For the next five years, ACS will develop and deliver IT services for Florida KidCare. Child Health Insurance Program... Continue Reading Posted at 8:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Why to outsource core functions? Krissy January 9, 2007 Outsource all your not-core functions and concentrate more on core functions. That has been the rule of thumb in the outsourcing game for now. However, Mark Gottfredson and his co-authors in this month's issue of Harvard Business Review defy... Continue Reading Posted at 8:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Financial services firm opting for security outsourcing Krissy January 9, 2007 Well, no one at the first place wants to outsource security IT functions to outsourcers, unless and until have been convinced either by the concept or other's experience. So, despite its risk quotient IT aspect of security which is growing... Continue Reading Posted at 7:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 8	Outsourcing will take huge stride: NOA Krissy January 8, 2007 Well, outsourcing does not always necessarily mean jobs fly down from Europe, US and Australia to developing and underdeveloped cheap labor countries. If National Outsourcing Association's (NOA) annual survey finding is to be believed, UKites will find reasons enough to... Continue Reading Posted at 9:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Infy BPO partners with HVS Krissy January 8, 2007 Infosys BPO, the business process outsourcing (BPO) wing of Infosys Technologies, leading IT player from India has inked a deal with HVS International, New York- based consultancy to offer gamut of outsourcing solutions to the hospitality industry.The Infosys BPO-HVS partnership... Continue Reading Posted at 9:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China service outsourcing zones add six more cities Krissy January 8, 2007 In a bid to grab a greater share of the technology outsourcing work from US and Europe that mainly travels to low cost countries like India and Philippines the Chinese government has decided on ten cities in the country for... Continue Reading Posted at 9:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Healthcare outsourcing growing at 150% Krissy January 8, 2007 After medical billing and insurance process US is increasingly sending data analysis, software development, medical analytics and clinical processing work to India. The sector size may be very small (analyst feel its $300 million worth) but the sector has witnessed... Continue Reading Posted at 9:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	$7 billion outsourcing deal to renew in 07 Krissy January 8, 2007 Any idea, what is the number1 reason people go for outsourcing, industry pundits may shout from rooftop that it's not cost alone but other factors are also as important, the reality is that, 'cost' plays the most important reason behind... Continue Reading Posted at 8:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 7	Philippines, Russia getting hold of India Krissy January 7, 2007 Well, neoIT, a global outsourcing and capital advisor firm going in line with the predictions given by Tholons, a Washington D. C based management consulting firm stated that Philippines and Russia are poised to rival India’s supremacy in the BPO... Continue Reading Posted at 10:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Micro businesses yield benefits from outsourcing Krissy January 7, 2007 A new breed of new age entrepreneurs fed up with rising labor cost and other bureaucratic struggle launching new start ups and they simply don’t want to employ employees for their firm. Lisa and Mark Solomon’s ‘The Billable Hour’ focused... Continue Reading Posted at 12:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five new attorneys for Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner Krissy January 7, 2007 Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP continues its post-merger expansion with the addition of five new attorneys in the firm's Technology, Media, and Communications TMC) Department.Richard Green, formerly of Connecticut's Wiggin and Dana, has joinedthe firm as a partner... Continue Reading Posted at 12:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Is India ready for next outsourcing wave? Krissy January 7, 2007 Yes, India holds the number 1 position in the outsourcing world, but the question is will it be able to hold onto its position for long. Can it emerge out as winner in the next wave of outsourcing too? Indian... Continue Reading Posted at 12:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing goes back to home Krissy January 7, 2007 Last year on number of occasions the outsourcing processes have gone back to where actually it belonged. A lot of companies instead of sending back office work to offshore countries are opting to take back the office function to home... Continue Reading Posted at 12:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 6	Russia ready to take on India in outsourcing Krissy January 6, 2007 There is no prize is guessing it right. India will hold its numero uno position in the outsourcing world yet in 2007. But the surprising part is Russia, by going ahead of Philippines is ready to register a super healthy... Continue Reading Posted at 11:16 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Job move: Burberry to be questioned by parliamentary committee Krissy January 6, 2007 The Burberry company, maker of word renowned trademark stuff like beige and white check pattern stuff earlier announced their plans to close its Treorchy plant in south Wales and move the manufacturing to Chian thus shedding off approximately 300 jobs.... Continue Reading Posted at 10:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing: Russia a challenge to India Krissy January 6, 2007 Consulting firm NeoIT predicts that Russia will challenge India’s supremacy big way in 2007. Though India will remain its numero uno position but Russia will fast emerge as a strong contender with an expected growth of 40-50% in 2007. Presently... Continue Reading Posted at 12:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Human Resource Outsourcing: Not all mushy mushy Krissy January 6, 2007 When everyone is predicting astronomical future about Indian outsourcing industry, I stumbled upon this piece which says human resource outsourcing actually did not blaze the river with fire. HR outsourcing saw a bit decline in India last year. Possibly there... Continue Reading Posted at 12:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Offshore outsourcing= your money’s worth Krissy January 6, 2007 It’s a bit more complicated than sending IT work to offshore countries and yielding loads of monetary savings. Aberdeen Research in this study (link below) asks what actually people do save? Do they count and comprehend the catches beforehand? What... Continue Reading Posted at 12:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 5	Sandwell to cut a deal with BT Krissy January 5, 2007 West Midlands based Sandwell Council has chosen BT as the back office service provider under a 15 year contract worth £300 million. The deal will improve Sandwell's IT infrastructure, HR, finance, payroll and other back office services. The deal is... Continue Reading Posted at 10:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Affluenza called holiday outsourcing Krissy January 5, 2007 Outsourcing it seems is really reaching grass root level. Some lazy Americans to avoid holiday-to-do-list work paying others dollars to hang lights, pack and unpack decorations, shopping and wrapping gifts and what’s more asking them to stand in queue in... Continue Reading Posted at 12:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Firstsource buys BPM for $30 million Krissy January 5, 2007 Firstsource Solutions Ltd, (formerly ICICI One Source) one of the top five Indian outsourcing companies in the field of finance, healthcare, telecom and media has bought BPM, a Delaware-based healthcare claims outsourcing company for $30 million. First Source also plans... Continue Reading Posted at 12:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Procurement outsourcing to grow substantially in 2007 Krissy January 5, 2007 Different consulting bodies are on high about procurement outsourcing trends in 2007. The recent study undertaken by Everest Research Institute has found out that in the recent past procurement outsourcing deals have risen rapidly and is expected to retain the... Continue Reading Posted at 12:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BT signs £325 mln contract to extend Liverpool Direct JV Krissy January 5, 2007 British Telecom has scooped an £325m worth outsourcing contract extension with Liverpool City Council. The deal which was inked in 2001 is a JV between Liverpool City Direct (LDL) - extended to 2017. According to BT, the extension will now... Continue Reading Posted at 12:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 4	China deregulating banking sector to boost BPO Krissy January 4, 2007 China is marching robustly to achieve its outsourcing goal. In the last few months by showing extreme support Chinese government has removed many restrictions (means bundle of red tapes are only history) that could have become a blockade to smooth... Continue Reading Posted at 10:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	RUSSOFT outsourcing event, June 20-22 Krissy January 4, 2007 7th annual RUSSOFT (The Russian Software Developers Association) Forum will be held from June 20-22, 2007 in the most beautiful city of Russia, St Petersburg. It was formerly known as the Russian Software and Outsourcing Summit (ROSS). Now that Russia... Continue Reading Posted at 12:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	CFS to extend outsourcing deal to strengthen business Krissy January 4, 2007 Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) is all set to sign up a major outsourcing deal which will double its external IT development staff from the present size. The deal with Co-operative Insurance Services will take place in mid-January. Co-operative Group chief... Continue Reading Posted at 12:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	2007: Top 10 IT outsourcing predictions Krissy January 4, 2007 Russia’s leading name in IT and outsourcing firm, Luxoft has predicted some changes that will prevail in 2007. Let’s take a look: 1. Outsourcing Gets More Agile: A highly collaborative approach, clients experienced the agile development methodology last year. This... Continue Reading Posted at 12:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Datamatics bags 3rd position in the Black Book of Outsourcing Krissy January 4, 2007 ‘Black Book of Outsourcing', Brown-Wilson Group's 2006 annual survey of outsourcing service providers has put Datamatics Technologies Ltd. (DTL), a non-voice BPO service provider from India on third position. DTL has achieved this position amongst global document process outsourcing (DPO)... Continue Reading Posted at 12:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 3	India: From low end to specialized service outsourcing Krissy January 3, 2007 From low cost to high-end and mission critical support services, that’s how you may want to conclude India’s love-hate outsourcing saga. The question is, with other things can India become outsourcing hub for financial services. If recent trends are of... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BT/Liberata bagged Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council contract Krissy January 3, 2007 British Telecom (BT) partnering with Liberata has bagged a £300 million pound contract from Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. This project, though outsourced to British Telecom will create as many as 450 new jobs in the Midlands Council area. BT will... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Email outsourcing goes back to in-house Krissy January 3, 2007 Companies which are letting others to handle their email functions are now thinking against it. Businesses executives no longer consider outsourced e-mail practices as practical, cost-effective and secure. Firstly, it turns costly proposition because many service providers charge on per... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing in Eastern Europe to triple Krissy January 3, 2007 Its Eastern Europe who is poised to gain most from the next wave of outsourcing. McKinsey and Co predicts that outsourcing will industry will create 1,30,000 jobs in the region by next couple of years. The reasons that go its... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	It’s easier to get into Harvard Business School than Infosys Krissy January 3, 2007 India by large may lack the requisite infrastructure for doing outsourcing business comprehensively but if you look at Infosys, India’s greatest technology and outsourcing firm you will definitely taken by surprise. Infosys Technologies’ headquarter in 77 acre land is en... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 2	Oasis Outsourcing acquires Kelly Staff Leasing Krissy January 2, 2007 Kelly Staff Leasing, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Troy, Michigan is being acquired by Oasis Outsourcing Holdings, Inc., Kelly Staff offers plethora of human resources, payroll processing, benefits and risk management solutions to SMEs throughout the United States. Basis... Continue Reading Posted at 10:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Church's Chicken looks at India Krissy January 2, 2007 Church's Chicken, an Atlanta-based food chain owned by private equity fund Arcapita Inc. seems did not find good service from IBM. The deal was no small, around $5 million worth this contract possibly did not meet requisite service standards. What... Continue Reading Posted at 9:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	India is ready for legal outsourcing Krissy January 2, 2007 If off shoring of manufacturing jobs does not make news any more (I mean it seems like if General Motors or DaimlerChrysler move all their job to China people wont be astonished, such is the mayhem outsourcing created amongst people's... Continue Reading Posted at 9:54 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	When schools turn to outsourcing Krissy January 2, 2007 What a school administration should do when two teachers and one paraprofessional person goes to leave leaving the kid students in despair. The principal of O'Connell Elementary School in East Hartford temporarily reassigned couple of staff members who are otherwise... Continue Reading Posted at 9:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Steller bagged contract from telecommunication providers Krissy January 2, 2007 Australian call centre outsourcing provider Stellar Call Centres which has a network of ten contact centers and employ more than 300 employees has inked a deal with Australian telecommunications service provider to deliver outbound telesales campaign services. The joint venture... Continue Reading Posted at 8:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 1	SEO outsourcing Krissy January 1, 2007 SEO or search engine optimization normally consists of doing tasks such as online research, creating of web pages, optimizing them and finding of relevant links. Though all SEO work can not be outsourced some work can definitely be outsourced, be... Continue Reading Posted at 8:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Telecom companies handing it over to vendors Krissy January 1, 2007 You have always perceived these telecom companies as the biggest brands and end-to-end, networks-to-billing operators but may be you are not aware of the fact that newer management principles are looking at each and every functions of these companies with... Continue Reading Posted at 8:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	What is new age entrepreneurs' take on outsourcing? Krissy January 1, 2007 Banking on the outsourcing bandwagon many new age entrepreneurs are doing away with non core functions from the very beginning. And some while expanding their business in new places also did not invest for non-core functions. For Donald Marvin, who... Continue Reading Posted at 8:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	When sourcing strategies go wrong Krissy January 1, 2007 Long term success or mediocre performance can be fixed upon successfully by profitable global sourcing operation. Irrespective of spending millions in procurement software, in human resources and training and other processes companies sometimes don't make it right altogether. When factoring... Continue Reading Posted at 8:27 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Union smells foul over Air NZ outsourcing Krissy January 1, 2007 The Service and Food Workers Union of Air NZ is crying foul and smelling some 'cynical ploy' as its employer Air NZ is about to outsource ground handling services to Swissport. The union feels it's a cynical ploy from Air... Continue Reading Posted at 8:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Jan31	Coley Pharmaceutical will outsource drug R&D functions Krissy January 31, 2007 Know More: News, Pharmaceutical 2.0, Pharmaceutical I really don't know whether the well publicized research and development of hepatitis C vaccine was of any importance or not or why the firm Coley Pharmaceutical axed it at the mid way. But it seems there is something real real fishy going on inside the company, if shedding one fifth of the workforce carry any hint. That's not all, the company has also faired miserably in two clinical trials of Actilon (CPG 10101) where a DNA-based drug candidate was designed to activate the immune system. Why the later one was important because Actilon was one drug the company was making without ant external help. It was truly its baby but it faltered badly. Coley Pharmaceutical has decided that enough is enough and opted for outsourcing route for future drug analysis, research and development. Although this decision will cost Coley an estimated £1.1m (€1.7m) in severance costs, the company will save approximately $15m (€11.5m) in development costs. This money will be enough to finance Coley for around three years. Read Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan31	Domestic outsourcing demand rising in India Krissy January 31, 2007 Along with North America and European market, the Asian market is also catching up with more demands in the outsourcing arena. Now setting aside the idea of whether the 'lumpy Asian' market is dependable on the long run or not,... Continue Reading Posted at 8:09 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BPO Council for Philippines Krissy January 31, 2007 In his first ever visit to New York, Ambassador Willy C. Gaa seems upbeat with the prospect of Philippines companies' performance matrix on outsourcing and over all health of the country's economic prospect. In a private briefing hosted by Citigroup for... Continue Reading Posted at 8:03 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Kimberly-Clark opts for Accenture for HR Services Krissy January 31, 2007 In line with Accenture's big Indian plan comes Kimberly-Clark Corp's seven year LONG outsourcing contract for its human resource service. Kimberly-Clark Corp, the maker of Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers has been wanting to cut costs on its human resource... Continue Reading Posted at 7:53 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Accenture and India: A floodgate to open? Krissy January 31, 2007 After Accenture's decision to have more workers in India then anywhere else in the world, analysts have started giving their thoughts on the issue. Author Malcolm Gladwell calls it a tipping point. What is a tipping point? It's like a... Continue Reading Posted at 7:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan30	Call Centers: How to be your boss’s favorite Krissy January 30, 2007 In call centers everything is in large scale, thousands are coming, hundreds are leaving, dozens of process, so many call center customer service agents doing the same work day after day (or should I say night after night) and everyone... Continue Reading Posted at 12:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	No megadeals, but megascope in 2007 Krissy January 30, 2007 "Megascope" deals will be the new yardstick of big outsourcing contract signings, declares consulting firm Gartner. Megascope are deals with more than $1 billion contract value, in the light of selective outsourcing model. The Gartner outsourcing summit will be held... Continue Reading Posted at 10:44 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank to get improved ATM network from NCR Krissy January 30, 2007 Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) has signed a multi-year ATM outsourcing project with NCR Corporation. In a press relase it informs that NCR under the contract will keep vigil over ADCB's ATM estate on a 7x24x365 basis by deploying advanced... Continue Reading Posted at 10:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Accenture to hike headcount in India Krissy January 30, 2007 India is all set to become global software and outsourcing company Accenture's largest centre in the world. The consulting major surprising everyone plans to add a good 30 per cent more jobs in the country and thus taking the total... Continue Reading Posted at 7:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Emerging countries will lead in outsourcing Krissy January 30, 2007 Amidst well circulated rumor that some companies are taking their back office and contact center office back home, one research firm however, contradictorily affirms that the off shoring trend will only go up and emerging nations will get the most... Continue Reading Posted at 7:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Never lose the grip on knowledge and insight while outsourcing Krissy January 30, 2007 Along with growing (and probably pervasive) IT outsourcing practices comes operational complexity with higher risks. Familiar (and proven, tried, tested??) risks can be handled with experience and expertise, but its unforeseen and less understood risks, which can be considered more... Continue Reading Posted at 7:27 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan29	US will purchase more IT goods and services: Study Krissy January 29, 2007 This Forrester Research study findings will surely make everyone glad. It says that U.S. purchases of IT goods and services will grow by five percent this year and will reach $1.55 trillion. On the other hand, its reigning good news... Continue Reading Posted at 10:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Bacolod City will be an outsourcing hub: City councilor Krissy January 29, 2007 Success of Bangalore (or Bangaluru) and Gurgaon and smaller cities like Vizag (HSBC resides here) have now become inspiration for cities like Bacolod. The councilor of the city Jocelle Batapa-Sigue wants to make her beloved city a busy outsourcing hub. ... Continue Reading Posted at 10:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	CFS reaches to a peaceful outsourcing solution with its unions Krissy January 29, 2007 At least this one has seemed to make a deal with its union upon the issue of outsourcing. Co-operative Financial Services (CMS) and its unions Amicus, The Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G) and the National Association of Co-operative Officials... Continue Reading Posted at 10:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	India: Get outsourcing deals? Now buy our products Krissy January 29, 2007 For foreign publishers outsourcing to India has dual advantage. One, they get the job done at the fraction of the cost. And two, many American and European publishers has realized the fact that (as if they have awaken to the... Continue Reading Posted at 9:09 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hinduja TMT and Centirc forms a legal outsourcing JV Krissy January 29, 2007 The market seems to be big if you believe the estimate given by Forrester Research. It says the current annual value of legal outsourcing which stands at $80 million now may scale up to $4 billion by 2015. No wonder... Continue Reading Posted at 9:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan28	Amtex to enter outsourcing arena Krissy January 28, 2007 Amtex Systems Inc, an IT consulting and services firm from New York having offshore development centres in Chennai and New Delhi, India has unveiled its plan to enter into outsourcing arena. Amtex wants to earn more revenue (this is no... Continue Reading Posted at 9:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing sailing smooth... Krissy January 28, 2007 The news that was doing the round sometime back that companies are now opting for lesser outsourcing deals. But it did not throw enough light on the fact that now more and more clients opting for specialized outsourcing deals in... Continue Reading Posted at 9:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Indian soft cos getting into application outsourcing Krissy January 28, 2007 A new study from Forrester suggests that Indian software companies are doing good business in the field of application outsourcing space. Hmm…after showing the middle finger to the more established blue chip software and technology providers in the field of... Continue Reading Posted at 9:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	MPS school custodians fight outsourcing move Krissy January 28, 2007 The Midland Public School is pondering over the idea of deploying a third party custodian company. This is has taken the good nights sleep from the available custodians who may have been altered at the expense of cheaper cost. The... Continue Reading Posted at 9:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Most banks have set up at least one outsourcing center Krissy January 28, 2007 Outsourcing is important for all kinds of firms and banks are no different. Most of the international banks have set up huge outsourcing centers in countries like India, Philippines, Russia etc. A study done by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in 2005... Continue Reading Posted at 5:19 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan27	India poised for clinical trial outsourcing Krissy January 27, 2007 Nothing new in this, another segment, another survey and India has been chosen as the future hotspot. According to a study done by consulting firm AT Kearney India will become no.2 destination for clinical trial outsourcing. I am sure you... Continue Reading Posted at 10:19 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hartford outsourcing contract with IBM may displace workers Krissy January 27, 2007 The Hartford Financial Services Group’s decision of outsourcing data services will make more than 100 workers redundant. It has signed a five year long deal with IBM under which the later will take care of databases, applications, backup, recovery and... Continue Reading Posted at 5:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan26	Outsourcing of email security Krissy January 26, 2007 Email is bane or boom….obviously a great invention (if I term it that way) for the mankind and a great great headache for email administrators. More than we the users are inconvenienced by email spam or malicious attack, it's them... Continue Reading Posted at 10:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BMO Financial ropes in SEI Investments Company Krissy January 26, 2007 SEI Investments Company, a provider of asset management services and investment technology solutions has been selected by BMO Financial Group Unit's Harris Investment Inc. to provide operations outsourcing services for the company's separate account business, SEI Investments. SEI consults corporations,... Continue Reading Posted at 10:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Unilever to engage HP for outsourcing deal Krissy January 26, 2007 London-based fast moving consumer goods king The Unilever Group plans to bypass some of its IT infrastructure operations to Hewlett-Packard Co. It seems last year's agreement with Accenture Ltd. has brought good results for Unilever. In late 2005 Unilever has... Continue Reading Posted at 10:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	HP and Unilever Act in first half of 2007 Krissy January 26, 2007 Hewlett-Packard is all set to bag a contract to conduct due diligence for enterprise computing for FMCG major Unilever. Unilever which has been signing many outsourcing contracts on different verticals since December 2005 will ask HP to undertake works on... Continue Reading Posted at 7:54 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Pfizer to save $2bn by outsourcing Krissy January 26, 2007 Leaving behind its Brooklyn drug manufacturing factory Pfizer is all geared up to deliver plethora of outsourcing opportunity for contract manufacturing organisations (CMOs) in low-cost destinations by cutting at least 10,000 jobs. Pfizer with the rightsizing and consolidation (outsourcing that... Continue Reading Posted at 7:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan25	Success waits for European language speakers Krissy January 25, 2007 Evalueserve, the global research solutions recently in a published report said that India will need more than 160,000 European language speakers for its burgeoning IT, BPO and KPO industries. Along with English learning of French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch or... Continue Reading Posted at 8:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	CSC signs $378 million BlueScope Steel outsourcing contract Krissy January 25, 2007 Bluescope Steel which has been a CSC customer since 2000 has inked a $378 million information technology outsourcing contract with CSC Australia. CSC will take care range of technology services which include software applications development, end user support and disaster... Continue Reading Posted at 8:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hartford to outsource database and application work to IBM Krissy January 25, 2007 Property and life insurer Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. publishes report for fourth-quarter profit last week. It is believed that Hartford will do good smooth business because the quarter was free of the catastrophes. No hurricanes like 2005. Weather was... Continue Reading Posted at 8:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Racism and outsourcing Krissy January 25, 2007 We look for reasons to hate people and when we find that, we release. Hmmm…racial remarks were never new for the call center agents working in offshore outsourcing companies, but after Shilpa Shetty-Jade Goody-Big Brother-Channel4 incident now the stories have... Continue Reading Posted at 8:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Vertex is top 10 Utility & Energy BPO Outsourcing Provider Krissy January 25, 2007 The best seller book in the outsourcing world 'Black Book of Outsourcing' from the Brown-Wilson Group publication has given Vertex the highest rank. International provider of business process outsourcing and technology services and one of the UK's major customer management... Continue Reading Posted at 8:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan24	EquaTerra fourth quarter survey not predicting high BPO growth Krissy January 24, 2007 EquaTerra's quarter four Outsourcing Pulse Survey predicts that a big demand growth is not prevalent in the overall process outsourcing (BPO) and IT outsourcing market. Almost half of the company's advisors felt that the demand level may be up but... Continue Reading Posted at 10:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China to outsource Olympic coach Krissy January 24, 2007 Well, I am not sure if this one can in all true sense mark as outsourcing or not, but one thing is sure, the very 'outsourcing' word is spreading fast to different avenues and also been used for most strange... Continue Reading Posted at 10:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Siemens launched Siemens Business Service (SBS) Krissy January 24, 2007 Siemens is integrating. It has now integrated all of its worldwide IT services and software activities which includes Siemens Business Services (SBS). The new division will include Program and System Engineering, Siemens Information Systems, Development Innovation and Projects, and Business... Continue Reading Posted at 10:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Healthcare growing in India Krissy January 24, 2007 When you get to hear stories of inefficiencies, excessive administrative expenses, inflated price, ineffective management, inappropriate care and wastage in the healthcare sector in the countries like US and Canada, be sure that the effect is pushing the growth of... Continue Reading Posted at 7:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	TCS feels outsourcing deals helped profit Krissy January 24, 2007 India's IT and outsourcing company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has reported a net profit of Rs 1,116 crore for the third quarter ended December 2006 as compared to Rs 1,019 crore, quarter to quarter basis. While briefing to the media... Continue Reading Posted at 7:03 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan23	Storage outsourcing of data rising Krissy January 23, 2007 Outsourcing market analysts have noticed the revival of storage service provider industry. The research firm TheInfoPro has found that a good 20% of Fortune 1000 organizations outsource at least a part of their storage management activities. The very trend of... Continue Reading Posted at 9:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How Does Outsourcing and managing of IT Infrastructure Pay Off? Krissy January 23, 2007 Well, now you can distinguish the market with majority and minority groups. In majority lies those IT organizations who opted outsourcing for their strategic development (??) and minority groups are those who are not practicing the theory. Aberdeen research in... Continue Reading Posted at 9:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Games market in China to soar Krissy January 23, 2007 Pearl Research, business intelligence and consulting firm predicts that the gaming development market in China (which includes online, packaged PC and video games, or in one word, all kinds of gaming) will cross a whopping $1.3 billion by 2008. In... Continue Reading Posted at 9:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BLG reviving backing on outsourcing Krissy January 23, 2007 Barlow Lyde & Gilbert is set for a new makeover. Well lots of new things are on the anvil as the restructuring and expansion of the commercial litigation team goes all along with the sprucing up of the very recently... Continue Reading Posted at 9:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	AIG Europe, Accenture Sign 10-Year Outsourcing Agreement Krissy January 23, 2007 Accenture won a 10 year outsourcing deal from AIG Europe. The contract is worth approximately £50 million. Under the contract Accenture will set up a comprehensive IT platform and insurance support services to insurance provider's wing called AIG Entrepreneur. This... Continue Reading Posted at 9:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan22	Ukraine outsourcing: 2006 trends, 2007 predictions Krissy January 22, 2007 Along with Russia outsourcing market of Ukraine has been also growing at a steady rate for last five years. The big percent of IT and software products from Ukraine is being exported to USA and Western Europe. In 2006 the... Continue Reading Posted at 9:54 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Riots don't have affects on outsourcing in Bangalore Krissy January 22, 2007 A riot between Hindu and Muslim did not affect the function of outsourcing in Bangalore. The riot between Hindu and Muslim started when Muslims began a procession against the hanging of Saddam Hussain. The procession turned violent when Muslims attacked... Continue Reading Posted at 9:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Bandwidth problems in outsourcing Krissy January 22, 2007 Countries inspired by success stories of India, Philippines and China before hastily setting up of national outsourcing nodal body should remember that more than marketing its infrastructure which is of paramount importance. One of such infrastructures are called 'bandwidth.' One... Continue Reading Posted at 9:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	End of outsourcing near? Krissy January 22, 2007 Will it become a death call for the countries which are heavily dependant on outsourced call center work? Is the dream run of third and developing countries like India and Philippines going to be over very soon? Will the trend... Continue Reading Posted at 9:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Indian IT outsourcing market shown good result in Q4 Krissy January 22, 2007 The fourth quarter of 2006 saw a bit decline in outsourcing deals, though not a big dip but somewhat down. India however continues to show robust growth even at the end of the year. Companies like Infosys, TCS and Wipro... Continue Reading Posted at 9:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan21	Milk outsourcing Krissy January 21, 2007 Hawaii's schoolchildren may not be able to gulp anymore locally processed milk which they have been for years. The state officials are considering outsourcing the school milk contract to Mainland providers. Surely a bolt from the blue not only to... Continue Reading Posted at 9:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	University launches online outsourcing certification program Krissy January 21, 2007 Outsourcing professionals will now be able to get a certification online from New York's Syracuse University . In conjunction with The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals the university will start certification master class from next month. By successfully completing the... Continue Reading Posted at 9:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing does not save money Krissy January 21, 2007 For God's sake please believe that outsourcing actually does not save any money. Qucirca's Clive Longbotom is on the view that globalization means wage inflation and it will take place much more quickly than before. According to him the practice... Continue Reading Posted at 9:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan20	Five year outsourcing contract between Unisys and Iux-airport Krissy January 20, 2007 Technology services and solutions company Unisys announced a deal with Iux-Airport. Iux-Airport which undertakes the new airport terminal in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg scheduled for 2008 opening has awarded Unisys a five year outsourcing contract. Unisys, renowned for its... Continue Reading Posted at 10:20 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Luxoft cracks 94% retention of employees Krissy January 20, 2007 When the leading names of software and information technology finds it difficult to retain employees, when attrition level is reaching all time heights, Russia's leading software outsourcing company Luxoft managed to achieve 94% attrition rates. Luxoft, delivers IT outsourcing services... Continue Reading Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan19	Spanish speakers to be roped in to drive Greyhound Krissy January 19, 2007 This time instead of India or China offloading of bus driver's work going to non unionized and cheap Spanish speaking drivers. Dallas based Greyhound Lines Inc. wants to subcontract not few but a total of 3,000 drivers. The premise is... Continue Reading Posted at 11:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fleetwood Folding Trailers to outsource 50 jobs to Mexico Krissy January 19, 2007 This is more about manual labor and neither falls into the information technology or sourcing. Fleetwood Folding Trailers have decided to outsource approximately 50 sewing jobs to Texas or Mexico. "Everyone at the plant regrets that the decision came down... Continue Reading Posted at 10:02 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	F&A outsourcing market to grow by 30%: Everest Study Krissy January 19, 2007 The result is so to say a bit predicted. Everest Research Institute, the consulting firm has predicted that overall the global finance and accounting outsourcing market will grow by more than 30 percent in 2007. In 2005 the global finance... Continue Reading Posted at 10:02 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Infosys' good show in third quarter Krissy January 19, 2007 The barometer of Indian outsourcing health can be perceived by the third quarter result of Infosys Technologies. The forecast may read like this: Budgetary estimates are still rising for offshore outsourcing, and India's leading IT and outsourcing companies still struggling... Continue Reading Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	CSC signs $50 million outsourcing contract with John Hancock Financial Services Krissy January 19, 2007 CSC will continue to support Wealth Management Applications for One Million Annuities and Positions John Hancock for Growth. The services include applications development and maintenance, mainframe infrastructure support, 24x7 help desk support, and network connectivity between CSC and John Hancock's... Continue Reading Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan18	Wipro Infotech branding big on TOS Krissy January 18, 2007 Wipro calls it total outsourcing or TOS. And it seems the branding is delivering lot of good to its Wipro Division which particularly caters to India, Middle East and APAC market. That's not all, better news are also round the... Continue Reading Posted at 11:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BSN Medical inked an outsourcing contract with Unisys Krissy January 18, 2007 BSN Medical GmbH, a medical products manufacturer from Germany has selected Unisys for a five year long IT outsourcing contract which is worth $35 million. Unisys, worldwide IT consulting services and solution company will deliver BSN Medical complete suite of... Continue Reading Posted at 11:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Check outsourcing service for Ruesch clients Krissy January 18, 2007 Ruesch International which delivers business-to-business payment solutions to facilitate global commerce unveiled this unique check outsourcing service which will be available in combination with Ruesch's ePayment Solution platform, or as a stand-alone offering. Easy time for Ruesch clients who can... Continue Reading Posted at 11:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Clinical trial outsourcing Krissy January 18, 2007 AT Kearney's study says that India has become the second most preferred destinations for clinical trials amongst pharmaceutical companies. China tops the while Russia holds the third position. The study which has been conducted across 15 countries found that though... Continue Reading Posted at 11:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Deal between WM-Data and Volvo Car Krissy January 18, 2007 WM-data, sister concern of LogicaCMG company has made formal announcement of bagging an outsourcing contract from Volvo Car Corporation. This is not the first time, the firm in 2002 also undertook outsourced operations and support services to from Volvo. WM-data... Continue Reading Posted at 11:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan17	Supply chain and outsourcing Krissy January 17, 2007 This Supply Chain Consortium survey has dug deep into the world of distribution center (DU) outsourcing and not much surprisingly has come up with the result that "the key to success in outsourcing distribution centers is communication between the company... Continue Reading Posted at 10:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Can outsourcing deals be built on level playing fields Krissy January 17, 2007 Pace Harmon an outsourcing advisory firm has asked organizations to check whether their outsourcing deals are built on a level playing field with their vendors. The firm wants to establish a level playing field for the companies that are negotiating... Continue Reading Posted at 10:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Air NZ-Union talk on outsourcing continues Krissy January 17, 2007 The Air New Zealand crisis is still hanging in the sky and parties on both side of the fence are mutually not finding enough reasons to go for a settlement. Neither the union nor the management seems have decided to... Continue Reading Posted at 10:40 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Advisory firms also grow with outsourcing growth Krissy January 17, 2007 As the money keeps pouring (more than half a trillion dollar value in the total contract value) in the outsourcing world some middle level (with some dare devil junior ones too) IT business executives are fast turning into outsourcing intermediaries.... Continue Reading Posted at 10:40 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Vanco signed a deal with Vitalo Group Krissy January 17, 2007 Vanco, a global virtual network operator has signed a five year long outsourcing deal with Vitalo Group which manufactures plastic parts and systems. Vanco will design, source, integrate and manage a network solution which will cover countries like Belgium, China,... Continue Reading Posted at 10:40 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan16	TCS wins Banco Pichincha contract Krissy January 16, 2007 This deal considered to be the biggest outsourcing deal Latin America has ever seen. The deal values worth $140 million. The agreement is inked between Banco Pichincha, Ecuador's largest private bank and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global information... Continue Reading Posted at 10:40 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Capgemini bagged Kemira Oyj contract Krissy January 16, 2007 Capgemini, one of the world's premier providers of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services has bagged an outsourcing contract from Kemira Oyj, a Finnish chemicals group. The value of the contract is not declared but in its media report Cap Gemini... Continue Reading Posted at 10:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Activity accumulates, but contract size dwindles Krissy January 16, 2007 In line with good growth rate outsourcing world will also remember the year 2006 as the year where single greatest number of agreements done. A good 11% up from 2005. The study done by TPI, also noticed that in the... Continue Reading Posted at 8:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Union calls Air NZ outsourcing plan only an attempt to cut wages Krissy January 16, 2007 The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Unions (EPMU) which represent Air New Zealand ground service workers says the proposal to outsource ground handling services to multi national company like Swissport is just a thinly veiled attempt to cut wages. With the... Continue Reading Posted at 8:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	United Utilities sells Vertex for £217.5mn Krissy January 16, 2007 Wondering if a profit making outsourcing business unit becomes a head sore for a company only because it wants to concentrate on its core areas. After much dillydallying (since December that is) UK based United Utilities which operates electricity distribution... Continue Reading Posted at 7:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan15	US healthcare BPO growing Krissy January 15, 2007 Healthcare outsourcing has seen some change in the last couple of years. From low end back office support and medical transcription the industry is now heading towards medical analytics and clinical processing. Healthcare outsourcing contract to India from US has... Continue Reading Posted at 10:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Performance incentive for outsourcing relationship Krissy January 15, 2007 A nice article on how to establish a good and productive relationship with the outsource service provider. Its performance incentive. Performance incentive like any other industry and segment also should work in outsourcing, as the writer rightly says (it) can... Continue Reading Posted at 10:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Indiana Univ to outsource bookstore jobs Krissy January 15, 2007 Some employees of local college campus are worried that their job may be outsourced to some other countries. The Indiana University Board of Trustees are planning to outsource some university staff jobs along with some other positions at IUSB. IUSB... Continue Reading Posted at 10:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Book on outsourcing Krissy January 15, 2007 As the outsourcing is growing by leaps and bounds new breed of writers (along with the tried and tested ones) are writing books on the burgeoning industry. The premise may be the industry value web or ecosystems, the rise of... Continue Reading Posted at 10:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Engineering – design and process outsourcing in India Krissy January 15, 2007 Along with application engineering or homologation of an existing product being "Indianised" comes engineering design and process outsourcing contracts. German automotive giant Volkswagen (VW) is all ready to set up a 230 acre, €415 million Chakan manufacturing plant. The establishment... Continue Reading Posted at 10:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan14	Dubai strengthens its data protection law Krissy January 14, 2007 After many reported malfunction and hacking issues the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) has unveiled an improved Data Protection Law. What's more it has appointed a Data Protection Commissioner also who will oversee the administration by the DIFC Authority."Both of... Continue Reading Posted at 10:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Freelance outsourcing Krissy January 14, 2007 With lot of new entrepreneurs joining into IT and ITes industries outsourcing of functions like Writing, Accounts, database development, Technical writing, Web Designing, Software Development, Web development, Translation Services, Fashion Designing, to Search Engine Optimization, Copywriting have become pretty common... Continue Reading Posted at 10:06 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Ayala Corp acquires Affinity Express Krissy January 14, 2007 The Filipinos have come and how. Chicago-based provider of pre-media and design services (or call it a one stop graphic shop) Affinity Express Inc. was bought over by a Philippines-based company LiveIt Solutions, the holding unit for Ayala Corp's investments... Continue Reading Posted at 8:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Convergys voted as No.1 outsourcing service provider Krissy January 14, 2007 Convergys Corporation, which employs more than 68,000 employees in more than 75 customer contact centers has been voted as the HR outsourcing vendor by Singapore’s Human Resource Magazine. HR professionals also voted the firm as best outsourcing vendor in the... Continue Reading Posted at 8:05 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	IT market to gorw in Asia Krissy January 14, 2007 According to IDC, the spend on IT market in Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) will reach 2 billion in 2007, a growth of over 10% than 2006. The study further says that outsourcing and BPO vendors are now increasingly making... Continue Reading Posted at 7:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan13	Firms benefit from increased outsourcing competition Krissy January 13, 2007 Business houses are experiencing that outsourcing processes are becoming cheaper and more flexible. The last quarter trend of 2005 shows that clients are rejecting long and rigid contracts and preferring shorter service agreements delivered by specialized providers. 2006, for example,... Continue Reading Posted at 10:06 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing: Corporate greed at its worst Krissy January 13, 2007 Boston guild is calling so. Globe spokesman Alfred S. Larkin Jr. said 55 of the 125 jobs will be vanished in the Boston Globe/Worcester Telegram and Gazette buyout. The jobs will be outsourced to outside contractors. Boston Newspaper Guild president... Continue Reading Posted at 10:06 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Value of outsourcing contracts shrinks Krissy January 13, 2007 The final quarter of 2006 has seen worst outsourcing market conditions since 2002 in terms of value of awarded outsourcing contract. Also, new outsourcing contracts value also gone down 8% than 2005. The prevalent trend is shorter and smaller contracts.... Continue Reading Posted at 10:02 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fleetwood Folding Trailers to outsource 50 jobs to Mexico Krissy January 13, 2007 This is more about manual labor and neither falls into the information technology or sourcing. Fleetwood Folding Trailers have decided to outsource approximately 50 sewing jobs to Texas or Mexico. "Everyone at the plant regrets that the decision came down... Continue Reading Posted at 10:02 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	HP bagged $175 million contract from Rockwell Collins Krissy January 13, 2007 Rockwell Collins which creates innovative communication and aviation electronics solutions for both commercial and government applications has awarded a $175 million global service outsourcing contract to HP. HP will undertake industry standard solutions for IT infrastructure management which includes desk-side... Continue Reading Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan12	125 jobs die at Boston Globe Krissy January 12, 2007 Citing reasons like tough advertising scenario and weakening circulation rates the new publisher of Boston Globe, the New England Media Group, plans big cut, according to memos from publisher Steve Ainsley and editor Martin Baron. The group will cut about... Continue Reading Posted at 11:19 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Rockwell Collins: $175 million deal for HP Krissy January 12, 2007 This enlivens the scope of HP's outsourcing services which was of late kept in low profile. May be, an indication that its stagnant outsourcing business in getting steam once again. Hewlett Packard (HP) has bagged seven year long $175 million... Continue Reading Posted at 11:09 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Sandwell Council Selects BT, Liberata for IT Services Krissy January 12, 2007 After Birmingham City Council's last year's outsourcing deal of £475 million, another big outsourcing local council city outsourcing deal is on the offing. Sandwell Borough Council is all set to sign a £300 million outsourcing contract BT/Liberata partnership for a... Continue Reading Posted at 11:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Monroe County Council opposes IU outsourcing plan Krissy January 12, 2007 In a letter to the Indiana University, The Monroe County Council's all the seven members unanimously vehemently opposed the university's proposed outsourcing plan. Currently in consideration for outsourcing are both the university's motor pool and the bookstore which the authorities... Continue Reading Posted at 10:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Infosys records 20% growth rate in BPO, QoQ Krissy January 12, 2007 Indian IT and outsourcing company Infosys has disclosed its Q3 results. It has reported a growth of 5.81% in its net profit than the previous quarter. Revenues were up by 5.91% QoQ. When asked about how much did the outsourcing... Continue Reading Posted at 9:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan11	Should financial institutions take up enterprise security outsourcing? Krissy January 11, 2007 Now enterprise security has become the backbone for everyday concern, from the corner office to the boardroom. And amongst others, financial service institutions are finding it difficult to manage the enterprise security in house. The irony is that even when information... Continue Reading Posted at 10:02 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Japan Airlines to cut employee cost by $413 million Krissy January 11, 2007 Suddenly lot of activity happening in Japan Airlines Corp (JAL). First, to scale back its non-viation operations it has planned to sell of seven of its hotels in Tokyo. And now the big thing, JAL has decided to cut 3,000... Continue Reading Posted at 10:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Patent adherence programs get outsourced Krissy January 11, 2007 Pharmaceutical management consulting company Cutting Image Information in its latest study has found that 61% of the surveyed companies like Amgen, Pfizer, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca outsource some part of their material development activities, customer services, market research... Continue Reading Posted at 11:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Chinese outsourcing won't lead to brain drain Krissy January 11, 2007 Canadian and Chinese high-tech companies now want to get most out of each other. Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) feels this bilateral process will spruce up growth in Canada's IT sector. It is also felt that the process can accelerate... Continue Reading Posted at 8:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Mexico based Xinify Technologies, Inc. with Fortune 500 clients Krissy January 11, 2007 For traditional offshore outsourcing Mexico offers plethora of advantages along with loads of benefits which includes lower political risks, geographical variables, similar time zone, proximity to USA, cooperative legal systems, similar culture and identical and technical educational standards. What's more... Continue Reading Posted at 8:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan10	Australian outsourcing: Cost saving most important factor Krissy January 10, 2007 Australian companies which intend to do some outsourcing in 2007 have identified cost savings as the most important outsourcing variables. The Australian end user survey conducted by IDC informs. Though now the industry has moved up and has added more... Continue Reading Posted at 9:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Honduras call center outsourcing Krissy January 10, 2007 This news of opening up of new outsourcing call center coming directly from the horse's mouth. The writer tells that he himself met the client, discussed the project, spent 'two delightful days with the client' and hopeful that starts aggressively... Continue Reading Posted at 9:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	US top executives scared of outsourcing Krissy January 10, 2007 Contrary to the widespread belief that outsourcing practices actually will bring more good to countries, most US top executives (who earn $100k) are scared of the phenomenon. The recent survey by The Ladders indicates that outsourcing may will leave America... Continue Reading Posted at 9:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Innovation key for biopharma oustsourcers Krissy January 10, 2007 This New York Times report on the basis of the findings given by consulting firm Research and Markets has mentioned that 60% of industry executives feel that India will be the most attractive country for outsourcing. Along with rising costs... Continue Reading Posted at 9:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	ACS will host outsourcing event Krissy January 10, 2007 Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. or ACS, the IT and BPO service provider is about to host the inaugural meeting of the Dallas Area Chapter of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). The intention of the event is to promote... Continue Reading Posted at 9:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 9	Hollywood outsourced!!! Krissy January 9, 2007 When everyone is outsourcing to India can Hollywood be far behind? (from the gold rush that is) The scope is enormous, feels Pritish Nandy, chairman of a production house in India. According to him broadly scope lies in areas like,... Continue Reading Posted at 8:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Reverse outsourcing to US Krissy January 9, 2007 Heard of trends that go opposite to the mainstream? These days Hanna Global Solutions (HBS), a US based human resource management firm is serving more than 30,000 Indian employees from Infosys, Satyam, Wipro and Quintegra Solutions. Call it a perfect... Continue Reading Posted at 8:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	ACS gets Florida $87.3 million child health care deal Krissy January 9, 2007 Information technology company Affiliated Computer Services Inc.(ACS) has bagged an $87.3 million outsourcing contract to administer Florida's Child Health Insurance Program. For the next five years, ACS will develop and deliver IT services for Florida KidCare. Child Health Insurance Program... Continue Reading Posted at 8:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Why to outsource core functions? Krissy January 9, 2007 Outsource all your not-core functions and concentrate more on core functions. That has been the rule of thumb in the outsourcing game for now. However, Mark Gottfredson and his co-authors in this month's issue of Harvard Business Review defy... Continue Reading Posted at 8:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Financial services firm opting for security outsourcing Krissy January 9, 2007 Well, no one at the first place wants to outsource security IT functions to outsourcers, unless and until have been convinced either by the concept or other's experience. So, despite its risk quotient IT aspect of security which is growing... Continue Reading Posted at 7:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 8	Outsourcing will take huge stride: NOA Krissy January 8, 2007 Well, outsourcing does not always necessarily mean jobs fly down from Europe, US and Australia to developing and underdeveloped cheap labor countries. If National Outsourcing Association's (NOA) annual survey finding is to be believed, UKites will find reasons enough to... Continue Reading Posted at 9:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Infy BPO partners with HVS Krissy January 8, 2007 Infosys BPO, the business process outsourcing (BPO) wing of Infosys Technologies, leading IT player from India has inked a deal with HVS International, New York- based consultancy to offer gamut of outsourcing solutions to the hospitality industry.The Infosys BPO-HVS partnership... Continue Reading Posted at 9:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China service outsourcing zones add six more cities Krissy January 8, 2007 In a bid to grab a greater share of the technology outsourcing work from US and Europe that mainly travels to low cost countries like India and Philippines the Chinese government has decided on ten cities in the country for... Continue Reading Posted at 9:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Healthcare outsourcing growing at 150% Krissy January 8, 2007 After medical billing and insurance process US is increasingly sending data analysis, software development, medical analytics and clinical processing work to India. The sector size may be very small (analyst feel its $300 million worth) but the sector has witnessed... Continue Reading Posted at 9:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	$7 billion outsourcing deal to renew in 07 Krissy January 8, 2007 Any idea, what is the number1 reason people go for outsourcing, industry pundits may shout from rooftop that it's not cost alone but other factors are also as important, the reality is that, 'cost' plays the most important reason behind... Continue Reading Posted at 8:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 7	Philippines, Russia getting hold of India Krissy January 7, 2007 Well, neoIT, a global outsourcing and capital advisor firm going in line with the predictions given by Tholons, a Washington D. C based management consulting firm stated that Philippines and Russia are poised to rival India’s supremacy in the BPO... Continue Reading Posted at 10:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Micro businesses yield benefits from outsourcing Krissy January 7, 2007 A new breed of new age entrepreneurs fed up with rising labor cost and other bureaucratic struggle launching new start ups and they simply don’t want to employ employees for their firm. Lisa and Mark Solomon’s ‘The Billable Hour’ focused... Continue Reading Posted at 12:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Five new attorneys for Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner Krissy January 7, 2007 Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP continues its post-merger expansion with the addition of five new attorneys in the firm's Technology, Media, and Communications TMC) Department.Richard Green, formerly of Connecticut's Wiggin and Dana, has joinedthe firm as a partner... Continue Reading Posted at 12:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Is India ready for next outsourcing wave? Krissy January 7, 2007 Yes, India holds the number 1 position in the outsourcing world, but the question is will it be able to hold onto its position for long. Can it emerge out as winner in the next wave of outsourcing too? Indian... Continue Reading Posted at 12:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing goes back to home Krissy January 7, 2007 Last year on number of occasions the outsourcing processes have gone back to where actually it belonged. A lot of companies instead of sending back office work to offshore countries are opting to take back the office function to home... Continue Reading Posted at 12:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 6	Russia ready to take on India in outsourcing Krissy January 6, 2007 There is no prize is guessing it right. India will hold its numero uno position in the outsourcing world yet in 2007. But the surprising part is Russia, by going ahead of Philippines is ready to register a super healthy... Continue Reading Posted at 11:16 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Job move: Burberry to be questioned by parliamentary committee Krissy January 6, 2007 The Burberry company, maker of word renowned trademark stuff like beige and white check pattern stuff earlier announced their plans to close its Treorchy plant in south Wales and move the manufacturing to Chian thus shedding off approximately 300 jobs.... Continue Reading Posted at 10:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing: Russia a challenge to India Krissy January 6, 2007 Consulting firm NeoIT predicts that Russia will challenge India’s supremacy big way in 2007. Though India will remain its numero uno position but Russia will fast emerge as a strong contender with an expected growth of 40-50% in 2007. Presently... Continue Reading Posted at 12:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Human Resource Outsourcing: Not all mushy mushy Krissy January 6, 2007 When everyone is predicting astronomical future about Indian outsourcing industry, I stumbled upon this piece which says human resource outsourcing actually did not blaze the river with fire. HR outsourcing saw a bit decline in India last year. Possibly there... Continue Reading Posted at 12:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Offshore outsourcing= your money’s worth Krissy January 6, 2007 It’s a bit more complicated than sending IT work to offshore countries and yielding loads of monetary savings. Aberdeen Research in this study (link below) asks what actually people do save? Do they count and comprehend the catches beforehand? What... Continue Reading Posted at 12:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 5	Sandwell to cut a deal with BT Krissy January 5, 2007 West Midlands based Sandwell Council has chosen BT as the back office service provider under a 15 year contract worth £300 million. The deal will improve Sandwell's IT infrastructure, HR, finance, payroll and other back office services. The deal is... Continue Reading Posted at 10:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Affluenza called holiday outsourcing Krissy January 5, 2007 Outsourcing it seems is really reaching grass root level. Some lazy Americans to avoid holiday-to-do-list work paying others dollars to hang lights, pack and unpack decorations, shopping and wrapping gifts and what’s more asking them to stand in queue in... Continue Reading Posted at 12:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Firstsource buys BPM for $30 million Krissy January 5, 2007 Firstsource Solutions Ltd, (formerly ICICI One Source) one of the top five Indian outsourcing companies in the field of finance, healthcare, telecom and media has bought BPM, a Delaware-based healthcare claims outsourcing company for $30 million. First Source also plans... Continue Reading Posted at 12:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Procurement outsourcing to grow substantially in 2007 Krissy January 5, 2007 Different consulting bodies are on high about procurement outsourcing trends in 2007. The recent study undertaken by Everest Research Institute has found out that in the recent past procurement outsourcing deals have risen rapidly and is expected to retain the... Continue Reading Posted at 12:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BT signs £325 mln contract to extend Liverpool Direct JV Krissy January 5, 2007 British Telecom has scooped an £325m worth outsourcing contract extension with Liverpool City Council. The deal which was inked in 2001 is a JV between Liverpool City Direct (LDL) - extended to 2017. According to BT, the extension will now... Continue Reading Posted at 12:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 4	China deregulating banking sector to boost BPO Krissy January 4, 2007 China is marching robustly to achieve its outsourcing goal. In the last few months by showing extreme support Chinese government has removed many restrictions (means bundle of red tapes are only history) that could have become a blockade to smooth... Continue Reading Posted at 10:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	RUSSOFT outsourcing event, June 20-22 Krissy January 4, 2007 7th annual RUSSOFT (The Russian Software Developers Association) Forum will be held from June 20-22, 2007 in the most beautiful city of Russia, St Petersburg. It was formerly known as the Russian Software and Outsourcing Summit (ROSS). Now that Russia... Continue Reading Posted at 12:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	CFS to extend outsourcing deal to strengthen business Krissy January 4, 2007 Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) is all set to sign up a major outsourcing deal which will double its external IT development staff from the present size. The deal with Co-operative Insurance Services will take place in mid-January. Co-operative Group chief... Continue Reading Posted at 12:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	2007: Top 10 IT outsourcing predictions Krissy January 4, 2007 Russia’s leading name in IT and outsourcing firm, Luxoft has predicted some changes that will prevail in 2007. Let’s take a look: 1. Outsourcing Gets More Agile: A highly collaborative approach, clients experienced the agile development methodology last year. This... Continue Reading Posted at 12:15 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Datamatics bags 3rd position in the Black Book of Outsourcing Krissy January 4, 2007 ‘Black Book of Outsourcing', Brown-Wilson Group's 2006 annual survey of outsourcing service providers has put Datamatics Technologies Ltd. (DTL), a non-voice BPO service provider from India on third position. DTL has achieved this position amongst global document process outsourcing (DPO)... Continue Reading Posted at 12:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 3	India: From low end to specialized service outsourcing Krissy January 3, 2007 From low cost to high-end and mission critical support services, that’s how you may want to conclude India’s love-hate outsourcing saga. The question is, with other things can India become outsourcing hub for financial services. If recent trends are of... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	BT/Liberata bagged Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council contract Krissy January 3, 2007 British Telecom (BT) partnering with Liberata has bagged a £300 million pound contract from Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. This project, though outsourced to British Telecom will create as many as 450 new jobs in the Midlands Council area. BT will... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Email outsourcing goes back to in-house Krissy January 3, 2007 Companies which are letting others to handle their email functions are now thinking against it. Businesses executives no longer consider outsourced e-mail practices as practical, cost-effective and secure. Firstly, it turns costly proposition because many service providers charge on per... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Outsourcing in Eastern Europe to triple Krissy January 3, 2007 Its Eastern Europe who is poised to gain most from the next wave of outsourcing. McKinsey and Co predicts that outsourcing will industry will create 1,30,000 jobs in the region by next couple of years. The reasons that go its... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	It’s easier to get into Harvard Business School than Infosys Krissy January 3, 2007 India by large may lack the requisite infrastructure for doing outsourcing business comprehensively but if you look at Infosys, India’s greatest technology and outsourcing firm you will definitely taken by surprise. Infosys Technologies’ headquarter in 77 acre land is en... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 2	Oasis Outsourcing acquires Kelly Staff Leasing Krissy January 2, 2007 Kelly Staff Leasing, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Troy, Michigan is being acquired by Oasis Outsourcing Holdings, Inc., Kelly Staff offers plethora of human resources, payroll processing, benefits and risk management solutions to SMEs throughout the United States. Basis... Continue Reading Posted at 10:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Church's Chicken looks at India Krissy January 2, 2007 Church's Chicken, an Atlanta-based food chain owned by private equity fund Arcapita Inc. seems did not find good service from IBM. The deal was no small, around $5 million worth this contract possibly did not meet requisite service standards. What... Continue Reading Posted at 9:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	India is ready for legal outsourcing Krissy January 2, 2007 If off shoring of manufacturing jobs does not make news any more (I mean it seems like if General Motors or DaimlerChrysler move all their job to China people wont be astonished, such is the mayhem outsourcing created amongst people's... Continue Reading Posted at 9:54 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	When schools turn to outsourcing Krissy January 2, 2007 What a school administration should do when two teachers and one paraprofessional person goes to leave leaving the kid students in despair. The principal of O'Connell Elementary School in East Hartford temporarily reassigned couple of staff members who are otherwise... Continue Reading Posted at 9:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Steller bagged contract from telecommunication providers Krissy January 2, 2007 Australian call centre outsourcing provider Stellar Call Centres which has a network of ten contact centers and employ more than 300 employees has inked a deal with Australian telecommunications service provider to deliver outbound telesales campaign services. The joint venture... Continue Reading Posted at 8:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan 1	SEO outsourcing Krissy January 1, 2007 SEO or search engine optimization normally consists of doing tasks such as online research, creating of web pages, optimizing them and finding of relevant links. Though all SEO work can not be outsourced some work can definitely be outsourced, be... Continue Reading Posted at 8:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Telecom companies handing it over to vendors Krissy January 1, 2007 You have always perceived these telecom companies as the biggest brands and end-to-end, networks-to-billing operators but may be you are not aware of the fact that newer management principles are looking at each and every functions of these companies with... Continue Reading Posted at 8:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	What is new age entrepreneurs' take on outsourcing? Krissy January 1, 2007 Banking on the outsourcing bandwagon many new age entrepreneurs are doing away with non core functions from the very beginning. And some while expanding their business in new places also did not invest for non-core functions. For Donald Marvin, who... Continue Reading Posted at 8:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	When sourcing strategies go wrong Krissy January 1, 2007 Long term success or mediocre performance can be fixed upon successfully by profitable global sourcing operation. Irrespective of spending millions in procurement software, in human resources and training and other processes companies sometimes don't make it right altogether. When factoring... Continue Reading Posted at 8:27 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Union smells foul over Air NZ outsourcing Krissy January 1, 2007 The Service and Food Workers Union of Air NZ is crying foul and smelling some 'cynical ploy' as its employer Air NZ is about to outsource ground handling services to Swissport. The union feels it's a cynical ploy from Air... Continue Reading Posted at 8:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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