Internally, it has created six units to service these sectors: ebusiness, global industries, global network services, global outsourcing, systems and technology, and an over-arching worldwide sales and support operation.
Things will be fairly upbeat in 2004, IDC said in its annual predictions for the New Year. Overall, tech companies will not spend inordinate amounts of time unveiling new strategic initiatives during the coming year.
Unions representing business-process and call-centre employees are planning to establish an independent public investigation into the outsourcing of UK jobs abroad, according to Amicus, which is the largest union for private sector and...
Over 40 per cent of offshore initiatives will not yield anticipated savings, scale or risk diversification," NeoIT said in its predictions for 2005. Although wages can be much lower outside the United States and Western Europe, the overall...
Around 1,200 jobs will be transferred to more cost-effective locations overseas as part of "smart-sourcing initiatives". Deutsche Bank is to slash 6,400 jobs worldwide in 2005 as part of a €1.2bn cost-cutting programme that will see further...
Speaking at the FT Global Outsourcing and Offshoring Conference, Stiller said: "As Barclays grows globally we require additional capacity to service our clients at scale even for small volume markets.