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Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News In February, Northern Ireland made Gartner's top 30 locations for offshore services majoring in education, infrastructure, language, globalisation maturity and security and privacy, and recent Financial Times research found there are more software... [02 Jun 2008]
UK plc 'needs more skilled migrants'
News The UK must do more to attract foreign skilled workers if homegrown high tech knowledge industries are to flourish in an era of increasing globalisation. That's the warning from not-for-profit research organisation, The Work Foundation, which has... [02 Jun 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Globalisation was another change Verwaayen did not shrink from - urging businesses to recognise offshoring as a reality of doing business in the 21st century, and one he said can be "better and cheaper". [08 Apr 2008]
Top 10 outsourcing stories of the year
News 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 aiming to find their niche in IT services... [18 Dec 2007]
Top 10 financial services stories of the year
News Principal analyst Alistair Newton predicted the proliferation of consumer technology and the globalisation of money markets. As the year draws to a close, the UK's financial organisations are struggling to fend off economic downturn. [17 Dec 2007]
The cashless revolution is coming...
News Newton cited three developments contributing to the increasing digitisation of money: the consumerisation of IT, the globalisation of money markets and the basic convenience of the emerging payment methods. [09 Nov 2007]
Skills crisis? What skills crisis?
News But he warned that while young people might understand eBay Facebook and YouTube, they "have no idea that IT has a fundamental strategic role to play in the globalisation of world trade". The UK is not heading for a tech skills crisis, despite... [15 Oct 2007]
Are 'naked PCs' cheaper for businesses?
News Earlier this week European think tank the Globalisation Institute made a submission to the EC proposing that all PCs and laptops should be sold without an OS in order to foster competition and bring down prices, saying the current practice... [27 Sep 2007]
Bring on the naked PCs, says think tank
News In a submission to the European Commission, the Globalisation Institute claimed the lack of choice in desktop operating systems is a more central issue than that of bundled media players - the issue that sparked the Commission's antitrust action... [24 Sep 2007]
Outsourcers warned 'go green or get dumped'
News From globalisation to green sourcing, click here to read our take on the trends to watch. Outsourcing vendors are running the risk of being dumped by customers if they don't have any green policies or are perceived as environmentally unfriendly. [03 Sep 2007]
'DIY' offshoring on the increase
News From globalisation to green sourcing, click here to read our take on the trends to watch. The increase in the number of organisations setting up their own 'DIY' offshore operations in countries such as India is responsible for the slowdown in the... [12 Jul 2007]
Indian outsourcing leads to law firm layoffs
News from globalisation to green sourcing, click here to read our take on the trends to watch. London-based law firm CMS Cameron McKenna is to make almost half of its IT staff redundant as part of plans to outsource more work to India. [11 Jul 2007]
Vietnam tipped to be next outsourcing hotspot
News from globalisation to green sourcing, click here to read our take on the trends to watch. Vietnam is tipped to become a more popular outsourcing destination than both China and India within the next five years. [10 Jul 2007]
Are offshoring fears overblown?
News from globalisation to green sourcing, click here to read our take on the trends to watch. Fears that scores of highly skilled jobs are vanishing overseas to India are overblown - and offshoring is instead helping the creation of more interesting... [09 Jul 2007]
Five hot outsourcing trends to watch
News Globalisation While the scenario of China outstripping India remains unlikely, the trend is for increasing globalisation of the market as more regions seek to cash in on the offshoring boom. Which way is the wind blowing in the offshore outsourcing... [06 Jul 2007]
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