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Bored and underpaid? You're not alone…

News  How the staffing crisis is deepening& How techie salaries are faring& Offshoring still a hot potato   Banks hardest hit by staff crisis  Industry falling out of love with IT grads

Tags: skills, techies, jobs

[17 Jan 2008]

India top choice for UK outsourcing

News The number of UK organisations nearshoring or offshoring leapt from 47 per cent to 57 per cent last year - with all of them offshoring some or all of that work to India. But offshoring IT is not costing British workers he said, as the UK does not...

Tags: china, outsourcing, india, interfaces

[11 Jan 2008]

Creating Competitive Advantage Through Converged Communications

whitepaper In a quest for increased profitability and efficiency, the outsourcing and offshoring of non-core competencies to geographic areas with high-skilled and low-cost labour availability have become increasingly popular.

Tags: tcp - ip

[08 Jan 2008]

Demand for tech workers hits six-year high

News   How the staffing crisis is deepening&  How techie salaries are faring&  Offshoring still a hot potato   Banks hardest hit by staff crisis   Industry falling out of love with IT grads

Tags: skills, rec, salaries, it workers

[08 Jan 2008]

The rise of the 'Brics'

Comment The cheap and cheerful offshoring story has already worn thin with Indian service companies and is unlikely to be adopted by other regions as a 'competitive advantage'. It actually stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China and was coined by the...

Tags: bric, india, outsourcing, century

[18 Dec 2007]

What's swallowing your IT budget?

Comment When it comes to reducing the burden of 'business as usual' IT spending, smaller companies see outsourcing or offshoring as the least helpful strategy. Small is beautiful when it comes to making the IT budget sing, with small and medium-sized...

Tags: sme, it budget, training, reducing

[18 Dec 2007]

Top 10 outsourcing stories of the year

News Skills Survey 2007: Offshoring still a hot potato Not surprisingly offshoring was also high on the outsourcing agenda and although India continues to dominate that market, China is snapping at its heels along with a raft of smaller countries all...

Tags: bric, offshoring, outsourcing, 2007

[18 Dec 2007]

Top 10 skills stories of the year

News Offshoring's impact was also examined, with evidence to show increasing ambivalence among UK techies about whether it is a threat to their jobs - perhaps a sign of growing acceptance of the challenges of working in an increasingly global economy.

Tags: skills, flexible working, wfh, techies

[17 Dec 2007]

Top 10 financial services stories of the year

News Other issues that dominated the channel were an IT skills shortage within the financial services (FS) sector, offshoring and faster payments - or the lack of it. As the year draws to a close, the UK's financial organisations are struggling to fend...

Tags: mifid, apacs, lloyds, gartner

[17 Dec 2007]

IT managers getting their staff down

News  How the staffing crisis is deepening& How techie salaries are faring& Offshoring still a hot potato   Banks hardest hit by staff crisis  Industry falling out of love with IT grads

Tags: it managers, staff, techies, managers

[12 Dec 2007]

Revealed: The top 30 offshoring destinations

News The Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) dominate a list ranking the top 30 global offshoring locations. Analyst group Gartner assessed 30 countries for their suitability for offshoring to help sourcing managers who are "daunted" by the...

Tags: offshoring, gartner, china, bric

[11 Dec 2007]

Bank IT spend to rise despite credit crunch crisis

News In a statement, the research house said: "As a result of market pressures banks will be seeking to do more with the same amount of resources and money, which is likely to translate into increased demand for offshoring.

Tags: bank, infosys, tcs, bpo

[11 Dec 2007]

'Boring' e-learning fails to engage staff

News ¦ How the staffing crisis is deepening¦ How techie salaries are faring¦ Offshoring still a hot potato ¦ Banks hardest hit by staff crisis ¦ Industry falling out of love with IT grads Cultural and technological barriers are hindering...

Tags: e-learning, chartered management institute, survey, learning

[06 Dec 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Net education

Comment The gearing up of individuals, groups and the formation of education companies in the second world, to address the problems of the first, looks like the first real example of offshoring from the home.

Tags: skills, e-learning, management, education

[06 Dec 2007]

Black Country gets tech savvy

News ¦ How the staffing crisis is deepening¦ How techie salaries are faring¦ Offshoring still a hot potato ¦ Banks hardest hit by staff crisis ¦ Industry falling out of love with IT grads The Black Country Consortium (BCC) is making...

Tags: skills, it, jobs, microsoft

[05 Dec 2007]

Where is outsourcing heading?

Comment In theory, industrialisation should open up a number of new offshoring locations that could deliver a good, standardised service at a lower cost than their established rivals. In reality there are barriers to industrialisation - service delivery...

Tags: outsourcing, software, offshoring, customer service

[05 Dec 2007]

Want a new job? No thanks, say techies

News  How the staffing crisis is deepening& How techie salaries are faring& Offshoring still a hot potato   Banks hardest hit by staff crisis  Industry falling out of love with IT grads

Tags: skills, it staff, smes, techies

[27 Nov 2007]

The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham

The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham

Comment We have about 10 to 15 per cent of the team offshore and the way we operate there is use the offshoring organisation HCL as a flexible resource. The internet, however, has shaken up the insurance industry where dot-com upstarts like eSure - the one...

Tags: mccue interview, mark foulsham, esure, style

[27 Nov 2007]

Fresh tech talent in demand next year

News  How the staffing crisis is deepening& How techie salaries are faring& Offshoring still a hot potato   Banks hardest hit by staff crisis  Industry falling out of love with IT grads

Tags: skills, recruitment, graduates, survey

[23 Nov 2007]

NHS hearing testers to get improved data transfer

News  How the staffing crisis is deepening& How techie salaries are faring& Offshoring still a hot potato   Banks hardest hit by staff crisis  Industry falling out of love with IT grads

Tags: data integrity, data integration, nhs, skills

[21 Nov 2007]

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