Commodity processes are the prime candidates for outsourcing - there is little point in trying to remain current in the legal needs of payroll, when others can be doing this for you, or of the wonders of global expenses management when this can be...
Almost $100bn in outsourcing contracts will be up for grabs in the next two years - and big players including Accenture, EDS and IBM could feel their grip on the market weakened by more competition from offshore companies.
Companies are failing to quantify the benefits gained from outsourcing deals, meaning they are missing key business objectives. A significant proportion (42 per cent) of outsourcing deals have no formal way of measuring performance, according to...
Businesses are increasingly outsourcing to improve performance - although cutting costs is still the number one reason for most. A Gartner survey of 750 IT and outsourcing executives worldwide found 41 per cent are primarily outsourcing IT to...
We are focused on long-term value creation rather than short-term gains," said a Yahoo! should outsource its search-ad sales to Google, executives were prepared to argue that any short-term gains would derail Yahoo!
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