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The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment After that she headed up project delivery for the bank's retail ecommerce business at the height of the dot com boom as well as a special project looking at the future of the financial services industry for the bank.

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Manage Work Forces During the Labor Shortage

whitepaper This group is roughly 16% smaller than the baby boom, and the assumption is that this smaller cohort will not be able to staff all the jobs now filled by the baby boomers. Recent studies warn that the U.S.economy might soon experience widespread...

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[12 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more Then we have silicon.com resident Naked CIO who has been ruffling some feathers again: this time, the issue of open source. And are you suffering from password overload?

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore India will gain about eight million outsourcing jobs over the next decade as the industry booms in smaller cities, according to official forecasts.

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

Mobile banking set for boom time

News The number of people accessing banking services via their mobile phones will increase tenfold over the next four years according to Juniper Research. Around 816 million consumers are forecast to be using mobile banking services by 2011.

Tags: security, consumer, payment, mobile

[16 Apr 2008]

Mobile market kept afloat by Africa and Asia

News A continuing mobile phone boom in emerging markets in Africa and Asia mostly offset a drop in demand for expensive models caused by global market turmoil, a survey showed yesterday. Handset makers sold 283 million phones in January to March, up 10...

Tags: mobile, nokia, motorola

[01 Apr 2008]

Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore Shell is to transfer almost 3,000 IT staff as part of a $4bn deal to outsource the bulk of its technology infrastructure.

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[31 Mar 2008]

IT chiefs cutting back on contractors

News The state of the contractor market is something of an economic barometer - IT contract work which flows freely during boom years often dries up in leaner times when tech departments with shrinking budgets scale back projects and make do with in...

Tags: credit crunch, skills, contractors

[28 Mar 2008]

Business Drivers Behind the Online Spreadsheet Boom: Key Criteria for Secure Business Community Management

whitepaper The traditional structure of business is rapidly becoming obsolete - driven by fundamental shifts in the way people work, the way organizations interact, and the disappearance of conventional constraints of borders and time zones.

Tags: business management

[27 Mar 2008]

GPS-chip boom as mobiles enter the frame

News The popularity of consumer sat-nav devices is fuelling the market for GPS receiver chips, with one billion chips now forecast to ship annually by 2013, says analyst house ABI Research. As more chips are shipped, average selling prices will continue...

Tags: gps, mobiles, location based services, chips

[20 Mar 2008]

Google crystal ball predicts mobile web boom

News Google has seen an acceleration of internet activity among mobile-phone users in recent months since the company introduced faster web services on selected phone models, fuelling confidence the mobile internet era is at hand, the company has said.

Tags: mobile, microsoft, blackberry, google

[19 Mar 2008]

Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore Outsourcing prices have slumped in response to aggressive cost bargaining. Buyers have forced discounts of up to 23 per cent on outsourcing deals during...

Tags: offshoring, ito, outsourcing, deals

[11 Mar 2008]

Sharia insurance firm signs £87m Capita deal

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore A British Islamic insurance company is outsourcing its IT to Capita in an £87m deal. The eight-year deal will see Capita working with British Islamic...

Tags: capita, ito, outsourcing, compliant

[04 Mar 2008]

Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore Businesses are increasingly outsourcing to improve performance - although cutting costs is still the number one reason for most.

Tags: outsourcing, ito, offshoring, india

[03 Mar 2008]

India losing status as offshore king?

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore India is losing its stranglehold as the offshoring destination of choice as China, Morocco and Hungary gain ground.

Tags: offshoring, india, outsourcing, china

[03 Mar 2008]

Offshore Indian outsourcer to open London facility

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore Offshore outsourcer Cognizant hopes to add up to 20,000 staff to its books this year, including 100 at a new onshore UK facility.

Tags: ito, outsourcing, offshoring, india

[29 Feb 2008]

IT contractors upbeat about work

News Unlike during the last recession, which was so inextricably linked to the dot-com boom and bust, this time around IT is at the very heart of every successful business. IT contractors are upbeat about job prospects despite talk of a recession in the...

Tags: techies, jobs, contractors, economic

[20 Feb 2008]

It's time Indian IT took the lead

Comment ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore India's booming tech industry seems acutely aware of the problems it faces - conservatism, social exclusion, lack of diversity.

Tags: india, software, innovation, outsourcing

[20 Feb 2008]

Handling the Boom Times at Brisbane's Port With Microsoft Dynamics CRM

whitepaper Responsible for managing Australia's fastest growing container port, the Port of Brisbane Corporation (PBC) needed a more efficient way to build and maintain its diverse relationships with customers, partners and suppliers.

Tags: crm software

[19 Feb 2008]

Offshoring - not just about the costs

Comment ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore Offshoring to India is often discussed in terms of staff cost-cutting. But speakers at this year's Nasscom Leadership Forum are emphasising it's much more...

Tags: india, bpo, skills, offshore

[18 Feb 2008]

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