State of the Industry Outsourcing Leaders Weigh in On the Industry’s Status and Future Outsourcing has come a long way in the past 20 years and with the fast pace of change it’s hard to envision what it will look like in the decades to come. To help give us a clearer vision for the [...]

I recently had the opportunity to attend the IAOP World Outsourcing Summit in Orlando in February. It is one of the single largest gatherings of outsourcing professionals that happens every February.  People from around the globe… buyers, suppliers, advisors, lawyers and other representing dozens of countries and industries.  I’d like to see some more networking [...]

Introduction Most successful senior level executives have built careers on their tendency to be action-oriented and ability to “get things done.” This is a natural and quite admirable trait that allows them to focus on what is important and achieve measureable and sustainable results quickly. However, when it comes to defining an organization’s sourcing strategy, [...]

In the recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama stated that the practice of “Outsourcing” needs to be stopped…that companies which “Outsource” should have punitive actions taken against them in the form of higher taxes and other penalties aimed at making the idea of “Outsourcing” economically not viable. Too bad Ross Perot, the [...]

PCCW Solutions, the IT and business process outsourcing flagship of PCCW Limited, celebrated its 10th anniversary of establishment in mainland China in December 2011. Going forward, PCCW Solutions will seize opportunities arising from the “National 12th Five-year Plan” to help customers transform their business and enhance operational efficiency and competitiveness. Mr. George Fok, Managing Director [...]

In June of this year I was interviewing the COO of a California-based bank as part of an application strategy engagement.  At the end of the conversation, he asked if Alsbridge had any data on the number of contracts where the client repatriated all the services.  The reason behind the query was that the bank [...]

Leveraging Outsourcing to Meet Top Business Goals By Ken Neal, Director, Corporate Communications Océ Business Services   In 2011 and into 2012, enterprises want to cut costs and improve operational efficiency; and they believe that the document management activities included in our latest industry survey report (“The Goal Standard: How Companies Leverage Document Management to [...]

  Vendor Management Is Key To Realizing Your Sourcing Business Case – Why Leave It To Chance Alsbridge recently initiated a study of its customers who had executed outsourcing deals to determine what makes the critical difference between realizing the projected ROI and coming up short. Results of the study showed early introduction of a [...]

  Document imaging technology can enable companies to achieve a variety of important goals. These include lowering costs and improving the ability to meet industry compliance and audit regulations. Imaging can also help streamline the accounts payable process. To highlight this benefit of imaging, I will highlight an example of how a cosmetics and beauty [...]

By Jim Reesing, Freeborders, Inc. The economic downturn has brought countless challenges and created a new socio-economic reality for global businesses. But in times of great need, it’s usually innovation that helps companies across all industries to succeed. Thriving companies have been putting resources toward finding new, better, and more efficient ways of doing business [...]