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RSS offshoringRetailers ready for great outsourcing thaw
News Barriers to outsourcing include the unrest caused by offshoring jobs, language barriers, and retail sector expertise requirements," the report said. Despite a degree of reluctance to outsource, retailers are likely to... [22 Jun 2009]
BAA on IT offshoring, T5 opening and selling Gatwick
News BAA's tech team have had a busy past year with offshoring a large part of its IT, the opening of Heathrow T5 and the sale of Gatwick Airport. Cost reduction is also another priority for BAA, and will take the form of... [18 Jun 2009]
Shocking iPods, netbooks and an offshoring backlash
News Broadband Britain was back on the agenda this month - with speed and bandwidth once again hot topics. First up Virgin Media announced it was trialling 200Mbps broadband - four times faster than its current UK top speed service of 50Mbps. [01 Jun 2009]
Legal Eye: How to save money with offshoring
Comment Looking to save money from offshoring? This emphasis on cost savings is driving a wave of interest in offshoring and what it can achieve across the businesses. A business case supporting the initiation... [26 May 2009]
Barclays to slash up to 350 more jobs
News We are disappointed at the job losses in the middle of a recession and disappointed that Barclays is still offshoring but are pleased at the extra security being offered at Radbroke," he said. Barclays has announced... [12 May 2009]
ID cards, Oracle, iPlayer and how to save your job...
News And silicon.com columnist Mark Kobayashi-Hillary posed the question Is offshoring to blame for job losses? ID cards, Oracle's move for Sun and the ever-interesting issue of how to keep hold of your job were three of the... [08 May 2009]
Revealed: Secrets to outsourcing success
News UK multinationals have this week laid bare their sometimes rocky relationship with outsourcing and described how offshoring is helping them survive the recession. Speaking at the FT Outsourcing and... [01 May 2009]
Recession bringing offshored work back to UK
News As the recession forces companies to become leaner and the comparative savings from offshoring diminish, banks and businesses are considering returning work back to the UK. Speaking at the FT Global Outsourcing and... [28 Apr 2009]
Crunch bunch can't get enough of cheap BPO
News While everywhere from Egypt to Thailand is being cast as the next offshoring hotspot, India's slice of the business process outsourcing (BPO) pie is only going to get bigger. According to Gartner, Indian companies' share... [21 Apr 2009]
Is offshoring to blame for job losses?
Comment The recession has brought on the offshoring backlash. It's not that the process of offshoring has become any more risky - in fact with the amount of experience possessed by some suppliers, it is anything... [02 Apr 2009]
Outsourcing Association to Be Founded in Central and Eastern Europe
White Paper Outsourcing Associated bodies and Branch Associations from the Baltics, Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania established Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association to promote CEE region as competitive alternative to other... [01 Apr 2009]
Outsourcing 2.0: What's the new India?
News Report co-author professor Leslie Willcocks said today the global growth in IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) in various new countries across the globe will allow businesses to gamble on many different offshoring... [31 Mar 2009]
Inbox: Government IT ignoring red lights?
Comment Offshoring IT jobs is bad for the UK, says the Naked CIO. It looks like the Naked CIO has jumped on the anti-offshoring-buy-British bandwagon. That's a fact, because in a downturn everyone fears for... [30 Mar 2009]
Legal Eye: Five steps to reduce outsourcing risk
Comment In reality, there are very few instances of political or social upheaval having any impact on offshoring or outsourcing. Outsourcing relationships carry some inherent uncertainty but there are ways to minimise any... [25 Mar 2009]
Naked CIO: Buy British
Comment Offshoring IT jobs is bad for the UK, says the Naked CIO. In my personal experience the offshoring of vital resources and labour is costly in reducing the quality of products, due to lack of... [23 Mar 2009]
