Business process outsourcing (BPO) is on the increase although deals remain relatively small, with the manufacturing sector accounting for 58 per cent of BPO deals that TPI is advising on. Broken down by region Europe's is the healthiest picture...
IBM's "on-demand" effort to transform how businesses use technology has moved from abstraction to reality, CEO Sam Palmisano told a group of customers on Wednesday, but much of Big Blue's energy is still being devoted to explaining the idea.
Although actual BPO - involving the outsourcing of a complete business function such as HR - remains some way behind industry hype, with traditional IT outsourcing accounting for 80 per cent of deals, TPI claims that the pipeline of potential...
Financial services firms are becoming more motivated to consider this sort of business process outsourcing (BPO) as complexity increases for tasks such as accounting and procurement, in large part due to the need to comply with new laws and...
The charity focuses on practical support, offering training, mentoring and hard cash to 14- to 30-year-olds who have the potential to start a new business and therefore transform their life. Each start-up is assigned a business mentor with...
Glossary
diams; BPO: Business process outsourcing - tasks such as call centres, customer service, marketing, HR, and finance and accounting
diams; KPO: Knowledge process outsourcing - tasks such as financial analysis, legal work and research