Outsourcing may be the buzzword of the day and the business trend of choice among CEOs looking to save a few pence but it seems that a skills shortage could be mangling the drive towards outsourcing. Companies who have outsourced areas of their...
Outsourcing has become an established practice in IT. In fact, it was quickly realised that the early outsourcing deals relied on a third technique for cost reduction: financial engineering. Of course, fashion is never cited in business cases for...
Nearly two-thirds of UK companies believe their outsourcing contracts are "not delivering" the benefits they had hoped for. But 61 per cent said their outsourcing is not delivering - and nearly three-quarters (72 per cent) are concerned about the...
This manifested itself in what Didcock calls a "massive multi-dimensional spreadsheet" called a service map. Not surprisingly, faced with such a tight and immovable 12-month timescale, building everything from scratch wasn't an option and the AA...
The total value of outsourcing deals in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) shot up during the second quarter of 2007 - with the UK leading the way. According to Forrester Research, the total value of outsourcing deals increased by €1bn...
The new airport was first conceived 17 years ago, when Bangalore was not even a blip on the globalisation map. Faced with Bangalore's notorious power shutdowns, many run their own power-generating plants.