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Outsourcing and Security
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 31, 2009
...d on October 29, 2009, IT managers were found to have some concerns regarding the security of their outsourced processes. It is unclear whether these concerns were based upon suspicion or actual disc...
Seen that? - Outsourcing to Africa
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 29, 2009
...tated that about 1.2 million IT jobs in Europe will move offshore within the next decade. Moreover, most of these jobs will be lost by the United Kingdom. Org Geldenhuys, CEO of Abacus, said that acco... ... Outsourcing Weblog Call centers are considered as one of the most outsourced functions in a business. This is also the reason why countries like India and Philippines...
Privatization - Not a Silver Bullet
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 17, 2009
... © iTopher When Indiana outsourced its welfare eligibility to IBM in 2007, effectively privatizing the process, it expected to reap significant savings – the shibboleth often promised by outs...
Outsourcing as an Economic Indicator
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 24, 2009
...y available skilled labor in the U.S., and companies may decide to grow their internal or on-shore outsourced relationships prior to moving offshore.
After the recession is finally behind us, howeve...
Will Outsourcing Affect the Recovery?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 20, 2009
...e so much of our economy has moved away from heavy manufacturing to services, many of which can be outsourced with relative ease.
The next question is whether this "jobless recovery," shoul...
Lawyers and Outsourcing Deals
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 1, 2009
...he lawyers' place in outsourcing deals.
First, take the role of in-house counsel. Even in the most hostile of environments, they have at least three main jobs: (1) to address the company's le... ...
But lets not forget their role as risk managers. Anytime a company's critical information is outsourced (and remember, information in a company is pretty much like water in the body - a company ...
Enterprise 2.0 finds success (and failure!)
in The CIO Weblog, on August 25, 2009
...for better ways to get their work done.
I imagine the results are somewhat biased by the fact that most of the companies participating in the study are technology companies, with a user base generall... ... traditional IT environments, particularly in the enterprise. The extent to which this role will be outsourced remains to be seen, but as the commoditization of networks, computers, and support servic...
TAKE Supply Chain Acquires PSI Software company
in Supplychainer, on August 20, 2009
...the risk has fallen on supply chain, logistics, compliance and financial professionals. A typically outsourced process has started to come in-house, and the software market is growing, expanding and e...
Sainsbury's selects Wesupply for supplier B2B services
in Supplychainer, on July 31, 2009
...ty into, and monitoring of, critical information flows.
Sainsbury's trades electronically with most of its suppliers but uses multiple solutions. By selecting Wesupply, Sainsbury's will not o... ...platform for connectivity to its 4,000 suppliers. Wesupply will work with IBM to provide a complete outsourced solution to Sainsbury's, and upgrade existing supplier connections to boost the visib...
Netbooks may be the new mobiles
in The CIO Weblog, on July 6, 2009
...icle, representatives from Verizon and Staples suggest that netbook fleet deployment might best be outsourced, just as is sometimes done with phones. If the economics are similar, the CFO is certain ...
Google Chrome ads on TV
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-11
...d Outsourced to China)
• NASA astronaut will tweet, take YouTube questions ... live from space
• Nest Unclutterer
• Layoffs Hit MySpace
• Mother's Day: 5 Social Media Tools for New Moms
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To panic, or not to panic
in The CIO Weblog, on April 22, 2009
...tions by suggesting they aren't ready for similar outages, whether natural or man-made. I think most are prepared for much worse.
Having said that, his article is full of more practical suggestio... ...preparation and testing and is worth a read. My own preference is not to avoid new technologies and outsourced services, but instead to focus on independent and redundant lines of communication with w...
Is all this free sustainable?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 16, 2009
...or a long time, and they aren't like, say, electricity, in their utility. They are just fun for most people, and all those people have alternatives when it comes to fun.
For businesses, they may ... ... consider and keep an eye on for strategic technology decision makers. R&D has effectively been outsourced for the past decade or more, quite successfully. A string of high-profile failures in the...
Hacking as a Service
in The CIO Weblog, on March 13, 2009
...rd of anyone structuring long-term operations as an outsourced service.
I suppose in some senses most crime is a service-oriented business of a sort. The problem with cybercrime in that respect is ... ...occurence, but this is the first time I have heard of anyone structuring long-term operations as an outsourced service.
I suppose in some senses most crime is a service-oriented business of a sort....
A More Pessimistic View of Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 2, 2009
...ains while their customers are seeing substantial losses. Also, it is important to remember that an outsourced worker is still more expensive than a laid off worker - and there are plenty of layoffs i...
Compliance and Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 11, 2009
...ppliers are asked to meet all applicable regulations and mitigate risk at all times, an effort that most client companies rarely undertake. The end result of this is an increase in compliance costs (e... ...shoring.
That being said, Ms. Wilson does not discuss one critical difference between in-house and outsourced compliance. Put simply, compliance risk is far more difficult to finely manage once a bus...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
...t, or cutting corners on the services they provide. A failure to significantly assess the impact of outsourced tasks on your operations and to systematically structure the tasks that you outsource to ...
Small ISP Says RIAA Has to Pay
in P2P File Sharing, on January 1, 2009
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 3833410
Following the RIAA's recent announcement that it's going to stop suing individuals for pirating music and will instead ask ISPs to crack down on file sharers, Jerry Scroggin, who runs the small ISP Bayou Internet and Communications , s...
A plane supply chain is complex....
in Supplychainer, on December 28, 2008
... not fully the problem of Boeing's executives: The reality is that this industry has one of the most complex supply chains in the world...
As an example, let's take the example of Joint Strik... ... on Lockheed's supply chain include the following ones:
- Large portions of the JSF are being outsourced to manufacturing partners around the world, with Lockheed performing final assembly.
- ...
How Web 2.0 impacts supply chin management?
in Supplychainer, on November 5, 2008
...hain. Also they can be used in the process of product testing in manufacturing (if company is using outsourced manufacturers) however I don't see any immediate use for areas such as logistics and ...
Donaldson reaches near 100 Percent Order Accuracy With Manhattan Associates
in Supplychainer, on October 31, 2008
...ith the Manhattan WMS, the EDC operates with 25 percent fewer personnel than was required under the outsourced arrangement, and goods are flowing through the facility in less than half the time taken ...
Keeping the CIO relevant
in The CIO Weblog, on October 13, 2008
... the position of CIO may disappear entirely in some organizations as it proves of less value than outsourced services. I've been on the record with this concern for quite some time now, but I ...
Entellium fallout
in The CIO Weblog, on October 9, 2008
...ith some of the first real data on what happens when your outsourced software services disappear, a mostly theoretical threat to this point which has been held out by more traditional software manufac... ...e as this downturn is, it may provide us with some of the first real data on what happens when your outsourced software services disappear, a mostly theoretical threat to this point which has been hel...
The Fall of Finance
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 29, 2008
...at core became smaller and smaller. I remember discussing this with an insurance executive who had outsourced customer service and claims processing, and was looking further to outsource finance. I as...
Bootstrapping principle #3: Freelance over full-time
in BootStrapMe, on September 22, 2008
...s another fixed cost, often one of the biggest, of continuing to operate your business.
• Most things can be outsourced. Yes, even office support, at this point, need not be done in an office (see o... ...t, often one of the biggest, of continuing to operate your business.
• Most things can be outsourced. Yes, even office support, at this point, need not be done in an office (see our own posts on t...
What Kind of Jobs Cannot be Outsourced?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 8, 2008
...ce during the training process. But it is important to understand what type of jobs "cannot be outsourced" to determine (a) the underlying meaning of the Obama proposal, and (b) the long ter...
Bootstrapper's hall of fame: VA ventures
in BootStrapMe, on August 23, 2008
... Some say the rise of the virtual assistant has arrived with these vital services being outsourced as easily as manufacturing or other business functions putting Denise on the vanguard of change.
S...
Gartner greenlights iPhone for enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on August 14, 2008
...nd while the minimum requirements basically mean "Exchange compatible" the real issue for most IT departments isn't simply the security or the compatibility, but the very different stanc... ...aditional CIOs are saying and what Gartner is encouraging. In a world where you have black-boxed or outsourced many of your services and applications, where staff are independent, technically adept, a...
30 ideas to be funded - meet ycombinator
in TJ's Weblog, on July 30, 2008
...d.
Rare to see that VCs open the gates and describe in more detail what they are looking for. Alas most ideas are very abstract (and to me knowledge) tehre are few 'real' solution but I guess... ...n of the future. News sites like Reddit and Digg are another. But these are just the beginning.
4. Outsourced IT. In most companies the IT department is an expensive bottleneck. Getting them to make ...
IT staffing forecast to drop in 2009
in The CIO Weblog, on July 28, 2008
... easily let go at the first sign of economic turmoil. The article goes on, however, to suggest that outsourced service providers and cutting edge technologies will not be seeing much corporate investm...
Supply chain video: Nike Warehousing and Logistics Center
in Supplychainer, on July 26, 2008
...bt is one the companies which logistics plays a key role in its business. As the company has nearly outsourced all steps in the manufacturing and sells the product via an external distribution channel...
SAP jacks support costs
in The CIO Weblog, on July 18, 2008
...the simplicity of such things, I imagine it will help drive businesses to SaaS alternatives. This almost certainly means away from SAP, considering the botched Business ByDesign offering that was the ... ...d into massive corporate software of this type anyway, then you already are at their mercy; if an outsourced approach offers any other advantages at all, then this sort of objection is rendered some...
Is it the Management?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 13, 2008
... but later in the article, Mr. Delamaide relates an interesting anecdote.
A "CEO who recently outsourced his customer call center and IT help desk to the Philippines" is described as...
IT's Caution With Globalization
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 9, 2008
...rbated by the fact that few managers are trained in managing global processes, whether insourced or outsourced, and even fewer C-level executives view management of global technology installations as ...
Maritz Goes to VMWare
in The CIO Weblog, on July 9, 2008
...e but the timing is unfortunate, lowering confidence in the company just as Microsoft is making its most significant move into the sector in years.
... ...aning up in the virtualization sector, renewed competition from Microsoft and growing acceptance of outsourced cloud-based services may both have a hand in the lowered forecasts and Greene's ouste...
The Next Great Outsourcing Debate
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 18, 2008
...inding trainable workers should become an important priority for companies. Any project that can be outsourced to Bangalore can also be outsourced to Birmingham - as long as the skill set is there. Ho...
Does the future belong to bootstrappers?
in BootStrapMe, on June 14, 2008
... whether VC firms pump too much money into companies with only limited return potential.
Besides, outsourced talent like the type being discussed has many other options for startup rather than takin...
Outsourcing Confidence
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 5, 2008
...y to be inserted into a program by an outsourcing vendor than it is by a disgruntled employee - yet most IT shops have at least a few disgruntled employees. Furthermore, because of the risk allocation... ...code infiltrating their systems. The implication was that in-house services were somehow safer than outsourced services.
Hogwash.
Harmful code is no more likely to be inserted into a program by an o...
Farmer CIO
in The CIO Weblog, on June 2, 2008
...ts step in to fill the gap? Or will ag-IT (I just made that up) skip the step and become primarily outsourced or service-based and not require such management in the first place?
Spending a lot of ti...
Outsourcing in a recession
in The CIO Weblog, on May 17, 2008
...e a sufficient number of providers that good competition keeps the market efficient. Further, while most businesses need telecom, it's not one of their core competencies, anymore than generating e... ...es and briefly mentioning that CIOs who had structured their departments to make significant use of outsourced services had a much easier time cutting costs quickly or temporarily, someone mentioned t...
Shouldn't you have done this last month?
in The CIO Weblog, on May 9, 2008
...ng for a year or more now. If you haven't been planning for what you might do in a downturn for most of that time, you're probably not the sort who looks at Hackett studies, anyway.
If you ca... ...to daily operations. CIOs who have already built departments in a more modern mold, using extensive outsourced services and other on-demand solutions, have a much easier time dialing their expenditure...
BT opens India operations center
in The CIO Weblog, on March 25, 2008
... China, and Brazil in the global telecom powerhouse's off-shoring operations. BT has previously outsourced development work to Indian firms but this is their first foray into telecom operations on...
Warehouses as a Cloud
in The CIO Weblog, on March 21, 2008
... has always been available for rent, and I am sure there are some large companies which have always outsourced their fulfillment processes, but having it available on this scale is new and different a...
The Millenial generation as IT staff
in The CIO Weblog, on March 20, 2008
...businesses need to woo these workers, rather than telling them to take a hike and continuing to use outsourced/offshored/older workers who have more value for the cost. If you have to spend money to ...
Supply chain video: McKinsey on the Auto supply chain in China (2)
in Supplychainer, on March 9, 2008
...t in the future, more work in the Warehouse Management and overall logistics activities will be outsourced to Chinese companies. This means more opportunities for growth but also requires developi...
Dell updates support offerings
in The CIO Weblog, on February 6, 2008
...pdating and assessments, many of the traditional jobs of the internal it support tech can be outsourced directly to the manufacturer... for a price, of course. I haven't seen the pricing on...
Indian IT Outsourcing market continues to grow
in The CIO Weblog, on January 25, 2008
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Although most people tend to relate off-shore IT outsourcing market growth to Stateside staff reductions, the latest suggestion is that the growth is being driven more by demand from other off... ...arious outsourcing organizations may force some consolidation in the currently extremely fragmented outsourced services market. The usual suspects (IBM, Wipro, and Tata Consulting) hold about 25% of t...
Boeing Announces Delay for 787 Jetliner
in The Aviation Weblog, on January 16, 2008
...alyzing the status of the program before specifying how much its lowering that target.
Boeing has outsourced an unprecedented amount of the 787's design and production to manufacturers scattered...
Europe catches the outsourcing wave
in The CIO Weblog, on January 10, 2008
..., however, suggest that not the United States, but Europe may be the fastest increasing consumer of outsourced, overseas technology workers.
According to Gartner (by way of ZDnet), while Indian off...
Intuition and Utility
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2008
... to someone's sacred cow, not because he is always right, but because the ensuing controversy almost always manages to pull some hidden assumptions and disagreements over the status quo out into t... ...that future IT departments will be operated by one person sitting at a computer issuing commands to outsourced providers via the Internet. Alas, the lonely system administrator gets even less respect ...
More About Outsourcing
in Biz Plan Hacks, on January 9, 2008
... customer service is not hurt. After all as a small business owner, customer service is one of your most important weapons.
Here are some things you should think about outsourcing.
- website deve... ...ourcing a few times. The Entrepreneurs Journey has a entry on why author felt that he should have outsourced sooner plus also talks about Rich Schefren's Internet Manifesto which helped him bu...
Concerns over Microsoft's datacenters
in The CIO Weblog, on January 8, 2008
...se in scalable systems has largely been relegated to providing in-house IT requirements... at their most demanding, orders of magnitude less massive than outsourced web services must be.
Can Microsof... ...39;s other "Live" branded services, and presumably forthcoming offerings intended to host outsourced corporate data services. This movement toward a generic, utility-model of service provisi...
Interview with IBM's CIO
in The CIO Weblog, on December 21, 2007
...ur company electrician or building maintenance guy. Oh, your company doesn't have one of those? Outsourced, you say? Interesting. How can you possibly get any work done without someone on staff to...
Shortcuts to scalability
in The CIO Weblog, on November 29, 2007
...able to SaaS providers-it's available to anyone who needs scalability and reliability, and it almost certainly costs less than developing it yourself.
Although such services are in their infancy,... ...with our core services.
Today, you are hard pressed to find anyone who builds their own sites, and outsourced hosting has become de rigeur. Managed IT services are becoming more and more accepted; no...
Agree Not to Disagree
in On Storage, on November 7, 2007
Sending your data to an off-site location is something I've preached here since my tenure began. However, one thing about that idea may give you pause - security. It's one thing if you're sending your data to your home office in Poughkeepsie or Peoria . It's altogether anot...
How suppliers´roles have changed at Boeing
in Supplychainer, on November 6, 2007
...hering me:
- Right now in computer industry, PC makers are suffering the problem of Intel Inside! (most of the profit goes to the Intel rather than HP for example). Will Boeing plan lead to such issu... ... They also design the parts and subsystems. The testing and verifying the subsystems have also been outsourced to the suppliers. The new system also has put an emphasis on collaboration between suppli...
The "Butler" Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 31, 2007
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First there were virtual assistants and now there are butlers which are being outsourced.
As you would notice in outsourcing, first there were only non-core business tasks which are outsourced li...
The Outsourcing Opinion
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 31, 2007
..." would be implemented. This means that only tasks that are eligible for outsourcing should be outsourced hence the good outcome....
Decline of IT Growth Due to Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 29, 2007
...o outsource IT. These outsourcing plans could hinder the impending growth of IT outsourcing because most of the tasks are being transferred outside the country.
Andy Rowsell-Jones, the research direc... ... not a big problem especially if the company would develop a strategy that would benefit both their outsourced deals and their in-house operations....
Responsible Consumerism Part 2
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 27, 2007
...ying buy this new bling bling,
they miss the all important thing,
and choose to continue suffering.
Mostly the problem
a choice was never given them.
Forced outside the system,
never to be better than... ... G's
in the employed society,
then do a little research
and see how many recently perched
to be outsourced and usurped.
Even self-employed's not good enough,
better believe it, you're cuf...
Empathy in Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 25, 2007
...some companies do not consider outsourcing because of the lack of "personal touch " in outsourced deals.
I've decided to write something today that is not to serious hence this outso...
Outsourcing the blame
in The CIO Weblog, on October 22, 2007
...y way of IT Business Edge, laying in to everything that is wrong with outsourcing today.
I think most of us can identify with Deborah Hill Cone and her encounter with various outsourced support cen... ...rcing today.
I think most of us can identify with Deborah Hill Cone and her encounter with various outsourced support centers and workers... although her experiences come in the context of moving hou...
HP expands SaaS offerings
in The CIO Weblog, on October 17, 2007
...oftware-beginning with managed deployment and consulting services and gradually expending into more outsourced offerings to take the rudimentary work of managing infrastructure out of the client's...
Behold, the humble business PC
in The CIO Weblog, on October 16, 2007
...and can be left to personal preference (and expense!).
But is this really a practical approach for most CIOs? Or is it applicable only in certain specialized environments, and not a general bromide f... ...er in today's IT department, hardware and licensing procurement and support, can be effectively outsourced to one's own employees. They will be, after all, accessing all the important business...
The Outsourcing Threat
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 10, 2007
... by Bill Snyder shows an interesting uptake in terms of analyzing the jobs which are likely to be outsourced. According Mr. Snyder, technical-based jobs are more likely to be outsourced as opposed t...
Top trends for internal auditors
in Sox First, on October 3, 2007
...s, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers study . According to the study, Internal Audit 2012, most respondents believe globalization will have a huge impact on the profession, particularly with ... ...t on to them. Presumably, that means they expect to get paid more. Unless, of course, their job is outsourced.
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The Ultimate Demise of the CIO
in The CIO Weblog, on October 2, 2007
...hat seven of the twelve didn't publish any information whatsoever regarding their CIO, although most made plenty of information available about their executive teams in general.
His second artic...
Indian Jobs Outsourced - to the US!
in Global Mobility Report, on October 2, 2007
... Mexico, and other latin american countries and Eastern Europe are also popular. But perhaps most surprising is the fact that United States is also considered. Japanese auto makers invested and... ...global outsourcing, you may be somewhat reassured to learn that at least some Indian jobs are being outsourced to the United States and many other countries.
The strong Indian currency and increas...
5 thoughts on bootstrapper focus
in BootStrapMe, on October 1, 2007
...o 50's " culture and " Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film & TV ".
I had already outsourced most of my other business functions. I was not a programmer and found TypePad a useful enough plat... ..." Retro 50's " culture and " Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film & TV ".
I had already outsourced most of my other business functions. I was not a programmer and found TypePad a useful ...
Thoughts for the Outsourcing Future
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 28, 2007
...he game thus making sure that they would still have a share in the outsourcing market despite being outsourced to other countries....
