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• Slavery, Outsourcing, and Things to Come

  BNET - 2006-04-05

  Successful countries who import key labor from abroad (think of the barbarians in Rome's armies as well as of the slave dynasties of India and Egypt) often end up ruled by that labor and/or its local interests. Today, America hires Indians to do otherwise expensive IT and Business Process Outsourcing...

  Tags: Line56 Media, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Operational Planning, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• What Matters for Outsourcing Success

  BNET - 2006-01-31

  The hundreds of billions of dollars spent on IT and business process outsourcing each year reflect a common desire for improved customer satisfaction, greater operational efficiency and higher profits shared by business around the globe. Outsourcing as a business is maturing rapidly. Competition among service providers is growing. Service offerings...

  Tags: Service Provider, Line56 Media, Business Services, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• The Politics Of Offshore

  BNET - 2004-02-19

  Outsourcing has become a burning issue in America. The current crisis doing the rounds in U.S is the outsourcing of business functions like contact centers. However, there is a silver lining in the cloud, which depicts that, hopefully, a more pragmatic discussion will ensue, which will provide an alternative. The...

  Tags: Offshore, Contact Center, Line56 Media, Call Centers, Outsourcing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Enterprise Software, Software

• Outsourcing Door Revolves

  BNET - 2003-12-24

  The biggest dollar deals of 2003 involved IT infrastructure and business process outsourcing, and the numbers there - the gross numbers at least - have been heady. Among 10-year deals this year gained fully or tentatively, IBM landed a $2.5 billion deal with Nordea, CSC won over Motorola for $1.6...

  Tags: Line56 Media, Outsourcing Door, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

• Offshore: More Than Programming

  BNET - 2003-08-13

  Offshore outsourcing has become a major business (and e-business) issue in the past few years, as IT job losses in the U.S. have exacerbated the already sensitive topic of farming work out to foreigners. Some service consumers have pulled back when engagements didn't turn out as planned. But driven by...

  Tags: Offshore, Programming, Line56 Media, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• The Kinks Of Outsourcing

  BNET - 2003-05-22

  From the executive summary: ‘While it was never easy to manage internally, many extended supply chains today look like an association of partners carrying the brands of companies that were once vertically integrated. Outsourcing has allowed these brands to focus on product development and sales and marketing strategy, but execution...

  Tags: Brand, Line56 Media, Product Development, Outsourcing, Branding, Research & Development, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing

• The Offshore Value Chain

  BNET - 2003-03-27

  The impressive rise of offshore software development and business process outsourcing in India and elsewhere during the late 1990s certainly took a beating because of the economic downturn in the U.S. and Europe that arrived shortly thereafter. But now that the bottom has settled in and IT staffs have been...

  Tags: Offshore, Value Chain, Line56 Media, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Software Development, Channel Management, Operational Planning, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software/Web Development, Marketing

• Procurement's Future: Outsourcing?

  BNET - 2002-08-20

  Modern business environment is extremely competitive. To survive in such scenario, it is imperative for an organization to focus on its core competencies and leave the implementation of non-core business activities to external firms. Herein lies the significance of outsourcing strategy. However, careful assessment of the viability for strategic, services,...

  Tags: Procurement, Line56 Media, Business Environment, Outsourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting