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Fit for Business, Fit for Britain: Corporate Fitness Programme for More Competitive and Valuable Businesses

Overview This white paper explores both the study of the “Potential Economic Impact of Outsourcing on the UK Economy” and then further describes how “Corporate Fitness Programmes” can successfully leverage outsourcing strategies in the quest for sustainable competitive advantage and superior returns. Outsourcing allows companies to access the economies of scale of their outsourcing supplier.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Logica	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2004	Downloads	68
Format	White Papers
Topics	Outsourcing

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The Value Proposition: IT and the utopian fallacy

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Channel:
Comment & Analysis

Model Management: Old timers have their day

And while desktop devices may have suffered, IBM continued to make reasonable returns from mainframes. But, as new economy stalwarts such as Cisco Systems and established high-techs like HP and Eastman Kodak weighed in with warnings about earnings...

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

Outsourcing will buck economic trend, says Unisys chief

Outsourcing will defy the downturn in IT spending and Unisys expects it to grow by double-digits. IDC late last month said it had seen some of the largest deals ever in 2000 as outsourcing continued its relentless climb.

Channel:
Law & Policy

US Election 2004: Kerry takes on offshoring

A Kerry administration, unlike the current one, understands that America's white-collar workers are facing losing their jobs in today's global economy and is putting his words into action to increase the job security, wages and benefits for white...

Channel:
Law & Policy

Outsourcing tipped to give UK Plc £4.2bn profit boost

It is about making it sustainable," he said. Mark Pragnell, managing director of the CEBR, acknowledged there was no way of directly correlating the share price increase to the outsourcing announcement but said well-performing businesses generally...

Channel:
IT Director
Tags:
uk plc,
outsourcing

US firms get more out of IT than UK rivals

The third paper, by the Centre for Economic Performance, found IT investment has a significant effect on productivity across manufacturing and services in the UK economy. Well-planned use of IT can help the UK increase productivity and compete in...

Channel:
Law & Policy
Tags:
productivity

Virtualisation: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria

In the past several years, server virtualisation technology has moved quickly and firmly into the IT mainstream. Of the many approaches to system virtualisation available in the market today, VMware's hypervisor architecture has gained the greatest market acceptance. This paper examines the architectural issues, solution support, and enterprise readiness required when deploying such a virtualisation solution.

Publisher:
EMC

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Master data management forms part of an overall enterprise governance program that aims to establish trusted data throughout the enterprise. This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines master data, examines why it is needed, and explores methodologies for implementing master data management.

Publisher:
DataFlux

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Publisher:
EMC

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