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Financial firms cut outsourcing
News However, we expect outsourcing and offshoring activity in the financial sector to pick up during 2009. Financial companies worldwide have slashed the number of new outsourcing contracts by a third as they slow their... [12 Feb 2009]
Why banks will push ahead with offshoring
Comment Tough times mean banks and financial services firms may have to overcome their fears and embrace new forms of offshoring, says consultant Andy Jones. Offshoring in the banking and financial services... [10 Feb 2009]
New Faces of Offshoring: A Typology of Work Design and Business Models
White Paper This paper provides a comprehensive conceptual framework for understanding the increasing variety of outsourcing and off shoring options available to international firms. Drawing on illustrative case studies, they aim to guide scholars... [02 Feb 2009]
Outsourcing: Less money-saving, more time-saving
News Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing Tax payer still owed millions by EDS Cheat Sheet: Offshoring Special Report: Inside India Despite the recession and the associated belt-tightening around enterprise IT... [29 Jan 2009]
Economy and patriotism keeps work on home turf
News According to the NOA's predictions of upcoming trends for this year, the weakening state of the pound will mean offshoring won't generate the level of cost savings it did previously. Speaking to silicon.com, the NOA's... [09 Jan 2009]
Satyam suitors expected 'within a week'
News Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing Tax payer still owed millions by EDS Cheat Sheet: Offshoring Special Report: Inside India The National Outsourcing Association's (NOA) offshoring director... [08 Jan 2009]
Bangalore and Mumbai get the cold shoulder
News According to Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), outsourcing companies are increasingly looking outside Bangalore and Mumbai when choosing new offshoring services bases. PAC found that while India remains popular with the... [07 Jan 2009]
Is there a UK IT skills gap or not?
News Asked for views on ways to plug the skills gap, 70 per cent of the almost 450 respondents to the IT Job Board survey said better training in workplace would help, with a smaller proportion (44 per cent) suggesting... [23 Dec 2008]
PC breathalysers, green Linux and offshore pretenders
News Revealed: The top 30 offshoring destinations And finally, the top 30 offshoring destinations were named this month, with the Bric (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries facing new challengers. Once... [18 Dec 2008]
Skills Survey 2008 in pictures
Photo Just under a third (28 per cent) of respondents agreed or strongly agreed offshoring is a threat, compared to a third who believed this in 2007, and more than a third back in 2004 and 2005. See the full story on how... [16 Dec 2008]
Revealed: The top 30 offshoring destinations
News New contenders are emerging to challenge the Bric (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries' dominance of the offshoring market. While India was the "undisputed leader" followed by China in the list of the top 30... [12 Dec 2008]
Software Engineering: Globalization and Its Implications
White Paper The offshoring of software development is over three decades old and has been at the leading edge of the offshoring of information technology services. Over the past decade, the pace of... [11 Dec 2008]
EDS CEO to retire
News Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing Tax payer still owed millions by EDS Cheat Sheet: Offshoring Special Report: Inside India EDS CEO Ronald Rittenmeyer will retire on December 31 this year, HP has confirmed. [09 Dec 2008]
Virgin Atlantic reservation system goes supersonic
News Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing Tax payer still owed millions by EDS Cheat Sheet: Offshoring Special Report: Inside India Airline Virgin Atlantic says an IT overhaul will give passengers greater control... [09 Dec 2008]
Shared services to pull public sector through tough times
Comment ¦ Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing ¦ Tax payer still owed millions by EDS ¦ Cheat Sheet: Offshoring ¦ Special Report: Inside India Shared IT services can reduce costs and improve efficiency - music to the... [09 Dec 2008]
