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• Outsourcing Corporate Real Estate Services Is Valuable Tool

  BNET - 2004-10-22

  From the executive summary: ‘In today's business and political environment, concepts like offshoring and outsourcing are highly controversial and often confused. Outsourcing is inherent to many information technology, human resources, and financial services platforms, whereby companies seek to buy the services variably. It is only in the past few years...

  Tags: Corporate Real Estate, American City Business Journals Inc., Tool, Outsourcing Corporate Real Estate Service, Outsourcing, Financial Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• HR Outsourcing: Your Firm's Sensitive Data Could Be At Risk

  BNET - 2004-07-30

  From the executive summary: ‘As employers increasingly use business-process outsourcers to perform functions formerly performed by in-house staff, the risks to the privacy and security of employee data grow. Companies should seek to reap the benefits of outsourcing while minimizing the risks of privacy violations and security breaches. Experts suggest...

  Tags: Human Resources, American City Business Journals Inc., HR Outsourcing, Outsourcing, Security, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

• Successful Outsourcing Strategies

  BNET - 2004-07-30

  From the executive summary: ‘The technological world has been taken over by overseas outsourcing. In such a scenario most companies have to come up with some clever strategies to remain successful. The new opportunity represent another aspect of the next phase of overseas outsourcing, the turning of the offshore tide...

  Tags: American City Business Journals Inc., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• Outsourcing Makes Sense Under Certain Conditions

  BNET - 2003-09-19

  From the executive summary: ‘Outsourcing is a term that has worked its way in to the everyday language of business. Some times it means something as simple hiring an outside firm to work on a project basis. Other times it means something much more dramatic, often with strategic implications to...

  Tags: Hiring, American City Business Journals Inc., Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• Downside Of Downsizing

  BNET - 2003-09-19

  The outsourcing bug has hit the corporate sector hard. Today, most companies are taking the help of companies overseas that provide cheap labor. Thus, experts suggest that using workers from outside the company decreases overhead cost. Companies use a combination of permanent and temporary staff to deal with shifts in...

  Tags: American City Business Journals Inc., Downsizing, Outsourcing Bug, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• Outsourcing On The Rise For Tech Manufacturing

  BNET - 2003-05-23

  From the executive summary: ‘A number of local companies use outsource manufacturing to a significant degree. Several smaller local manufacturing companies outsource simpler products or components overseas. But, they continue to manufacture more complex products in their own facilities, or they use local outsource manufacturers with whom they can work...

  Tags: American City Business Journals Inc., Outsource, Outsourcing, Manufacturing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• Offshore Goes Downstream

  BNET - 2003-03-14

  From the executive summary: ‘Smaller companies are increasingly relying on offshore outsourcing and the cheaper overseas talent it provides to stretch their bottom lines and cut costs in an economy that continues to stagnate at home. Some companies already have connections in the countries they tap for offshore outsourcing, so...

  Tags: Offshore, Talent, American City Business Journals Inc., Offshore Outsourcing, Outsourcing, Telephony, Workforce Management, Telecom & Utilities, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Networking, Human Resources

• Outsourcing IT And Business Functions Not Risk-Free

  BNET - 2003-02-28

  From the executive summary: ‘Most outsource providers are retained by organizations to perform functions such as information technology, call center, help desk, claims processing, finance and accounting, and human resources functions. The arrangement may call for the outsourcer to assume responsibility for managing services at the customer's own site, or...

  Tags: Function, American City Business Journals Inc., Outsourcing Company, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• Outsourcing Is Key To Profitability In Any Economy

  BNET - 2001-09-14

  From the executive summary: ‘Tough times make people strong. They force them to be creative and to think of opportunities and ways of doing business that they would not have considered in more cash-abundant times. Difficult times also force people to re-examine costs and ways that they can streamline the...

  Tags: American City Business Journals Inc., Outsourcing, Performance Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Workforce Management