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Take the silicon.com 2009 Skills Survey
News Offshoring too was a hot topic, with almost half of respondents agreeing that offshoring is undermining the skillsets of UK techies. We want to discover your opinions on everything from skills and... [25 Jun 2009]
White paper: The Future of IT in a Flat World: CMDBs, Automation, and the IT Value Chain
White Paper The Web, workflow software, offshoring, and supply chaining have pushed business into a milieu of blurred boundaries. Globalization has flattened the world. In terms of competition and commerce, the playing field has... [25 Jun 2009]
Offshore Outsourcing and America's Competitive Edge: Losing Out in the High Technology R&D and Services Sectors
White Paper The debate on offshoring has taken center stage in the country. The offshoring issue is made all the more acute because of the jobless recovery one is in and this Administration's inability to devise a... [25 Jun 2009]
HR Outsourcing in Government Organizations
White Paper Few subjects today have garnered the level of public attention and debate as outsourcing and its subset offshoring. Pros and cons have been extensively - and emotionally - debated on the American presidential campaign... [25 Jun 2009]
Job Loss: Bridging the Research and Policy Discussion
White Paper There are a variety of culprits cited for this sluggish job creation - "offshoring" (moving jobs overseas), productivity growth, geopolitical insecurity, digestion of investments in information and communication... [25 Jun 2009]
Homeland Security Is Threatened by Offshoring Information Technology
White Paper When American businesses choose to outsource parts of their mission critical operations to companies that operate on foreign soil, security of the business, its employees and its customers is compromised. [25 Jun 2009]
Offshoring Payments Processing: Payments Experts Only Need Apply
White Paper As the offshoring debate rages on many fronts, often lost in the rhetoric is the main rule of offshoring: You should offshore only those functions that can be done better, faster, more cheaply and... [25 Jun 2009]
How to Get More Out of Offshore Outsourcing
White Paper While cost has been a prime driver of the boom in offshoring, it was not the factor that started the ball rolling. This paper discusses offshore outsourcing which is simply moving work from high-cost, developed countries... [25 Jun 2009]
Offshoring: Is It a Win-Win Game?
White Paper The business practice of offshoring focuses on the relocation of labor-intensive service industry functions to locations remote to the business center; it's prime benefit is reduces labor costs. It has been enabled by... [25 Jun 2009]
Whitehall IT to pack its bags for pastures new?
News With predictions that a £50bn cut in public services spending is needed by 2020, senior Whitehall figures have indicated that they're open to an increased offshoring of government IT. Asked how much scope there is to... [24 Jun 2009]
Retailers ready for great outsourcing thaw
News Barriers to outsourcing include the unrest caused by offshoring jobs, language barriers, and retail sector expertise requirements," the report said. Despite a degree of reluctance to outsource, retailers are likely to... [22 Jun 2009]
BAA on IT offshoring, T5 opening and selling Gatwick
News BAA's tech team have had a busy past year with offshoring a large part of its IT, the opening of Heathrow T5 and the sale of Gatwick Airport. Cost reduction is also another priority for BAA, and will take the form of... [18 Jun 2009]
Shocking iPods, netbooks and offshoring
News Broadband Britain was back on the agenda this month - with speed and bandwidth once again hot topics. First up Virgin Media announced it was trialling 200Mbps broadband - four times faster than its current UK top speed service of 50Mbps. [01 Jun 2009]
Legal Eye: How to save money with offshoring
Comment Looking to save money from offshoring? This emphasis on cost savings is driving a wave of interest in offshoring and what it can achieve across the businesses. A business case supporting the initiation... [26 May 2009]
Barclays to slash up to 350 more jobs
News We are disappointed at the job losses in the middle of a recession and disappointed that Barclays is still offshoring but are pleased at the extra security being offered at Radbroke," he said. Barclays has announced... [12 May 2009]
