The UK is ahead of the rest of Europe when it comes to outsourcing but the public sector is still blinkered by a pure cost driven approach, according to new research. The figures support recent predictions on the growth of business process...
Three quarters of CIOs identified difficulty in managing relationships with partners as their biggest outsourcing headache in a survey sponsored by Computacenter. The survey found that following outsourcing, less than one in 10 (seven per cent) of...
Advances in technology mean that geography and location are becoming increasingly irrelevant when sourcing IT skills and resources, according to leading CIOs. The global IT sourcing market is still in 'maturing' mode, and smart companies are...
The silicon.com CIO Forum has revealed a clear divide among CIOs which still exists because of the issue of outsourcing. However, Neil Hammond, IT director of British Sugar, said many CIOs are simply "afraid to give away control".
Saving money is no longer the top reason for IT outsourcing, according to a survey of more than 650 UK CIOs and senior technology professionals. The vast majority (93 per cent) of CIOs plan to maintain or grow their current offshore software...
But one group not down with the social networking trend is CIOs - a poll of silicon.com's CIO Jury IT user panel found most snubbed Facebook because of the amount of "silly applications" and lack of business use.