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UK firms to drive offshore outsourcing boom
News Speaking to silicon.com at the Gartner Outsourcing Summit in London this week, Rajeev Sawhney, corporate VP at Indian outsourcer HCL, which recently won a £150m offshoring deal with Dixons, admitted India faces challenges addressing labour... [25 Apr 2006]
Indian outsourcers to launch European invasion
News Just last week Indian supplier HCL Technologies fended off stiff competition from two UK and international IT companies to win a £150m outsourcing deal with high-street electrical retailer Dixons Group International. [24 Jan 2006]
Dixons outsources IT to India in £150m deal
News High-street electrical retailer Dixons Group (DSG) International is to outsource IT infrastructure support and software development to Indian IT company HCL Technologies in a deal believed to be worth around £150m. [20 Jan 2006]
Re:Viewing 2005: The year in outsourcing
News Over at electronics retailer Dixons a mooted outsourcing deal with LogicaCMG was canned before it even got signed after directors got "cold feet" about the cost and complexity of the deal at the last minute. [20 Dec 2005]
The McCue Interview: Unilever CIO Neil Cameron
Comment It was a temporary IT job at RHM management services that started it all and Cameron has climbed the ladder steadily ever since at the likes of Diageo, Dixons, Guinness, Marks & Spencer and now Unilever. [01 Sep 2005]
Dixons IT deal collapses over cost and complexity
News Electronics retailer Dixons pulled the plug on a deal to outsource its internal IT to LogicaCMG after directors got "cold feet" about the cost and complexity of the deal at the last minute.silicon.com understands that the scope of the deal and a... [22 Jul 2005]
Dixons to outsource IT in £30m cost-cutting drive
News Dixons Group is in "advanced" negotiations with an IT supplier - believed to be LogicaCMG - over plans to outsource its UK IT operations as part of a company-wide £30m cost-cutting drive. The group, which includes UK high-street brands Currys... [24 Jun 2005]
CIO Jury: IT bosses can reach the boardroom
News Iain Andrew, CIO at Dixons, said there are more IT executives with a broader mix of business experience currently coming through the ranks. Iain Andrew, CIO, Dixons IT bosses have dismissed suggestions there is a glass ceiling preventing CIOs... [23 Jun 2005]
Northampton's chip and PIN 'high street of the future'
News Three in five cardholders across the UK have a chip and PIN card and retailers including Asda, Comet, Dixons and Tesco have now partially or fully rolled out the PIN terminals at their checkouts. The fraud-busting chip and PIN card technology is... [16 Sep 2004]
Is your cat a target for password-stealing hackers?
News More than 41 per cent of UK cardholders had been issued with a chip and PIN card by the end of May 2004 and major retailers including Dixons, Wilkinsons, Asda and Tesco are currently making the upgrade in stores across the country. [11 Aug 2004]
Security and big projects to dominate IT Directors' Forum
News CIOs, IT directors and IT managers from companies such as the BBC, DaimlerChrysler, Debenhams, Dixons Group, Ginsters, Levi Strauss & Co, Pfizer, Sporting Index and Virgin Trains will spend the next two days meeting with suppliers and attending... [12 May 2004]
FTSE 100 websites failing on customer service
News The websites of the UK's most valuable publicly traded companies are failing users on customer service and privacy, according to research out today - but the findings have been slammed by Dixons, which finished bottom of the table. [22 Mar 2004]
