Thirteen days before his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama held a meeting at the White House to discuss how to bring outsourced jobs back home. Among the 25 participants was Harry Moser, ex-president of machine-tool firm GF AgieCharmilles, and founder of the Reshoring Initiative, a group of companies and trade associations trying to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
Half of transactions now electronic.
Suncorp’s shared services chief Jeff Smith has ruled out technology outsourcing, describing IT as a central part of the banking and insurance group as more customers go online.
While other major banks have outsourced application and platform development to cut costs and improve efficiency, Smith saw “in-sourcing” as a strategic advantage for the Suncorp Group.
Ciklum, a Danish innovative IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Eastern Europe, presented a general review of the most thought-provoking predictions for the European IT Outsourcing Industry in 2012.
The year 2011 has seen both an extensive use of ITO services in traditional niches such as IT and Telecom, and a rapid penetration of ITO into the innovative lucrative niches such as digital media, mobile computing, online gaming and others.
Harvey Nash, the global professional recruitment and IT outsourcing provider, today announces the launch of a new service recruiting senior technology executives for periods of critical business change.
At a time when organisations are facing unprecedented strategic challenges as the pace of technological change forces management to re-evaluate traditional business models, Harvey Nash IT Interim Management has been established to provide hands-on support through highly experienced executives.
OCEAN CITY – With budget time approaching, a few unexpected suggestions were made this week that could save Ocean City money.
Finance Administrator Martha Bennett said she has received news that Ocean City is at the point to where it is favorable to refund 2005 bonds. If the town were to refund just the callable bonds, it would save $846,000 in interest or if all bonds are refunded $878,000 could be saved.
The fate of over a billion dollars worth of information technology (IT) outsourcing contracts is in a limbo after on Thursday’s Supreme Court verdict cancelling 122 licences of telecom firms. For, the order comes at a time when both Indian and multi-national IT firms like Wipro, Tech Mahindra and IBM, besides business process firms such as Firstsource, Intelenet and Aegis, have signed multi-million dollar deals with telecom firms including Uninor, Etisalat DB, Videocon and Idea.
Amid threats of the passage of a bill in the United States that discourages firms from outsourcing overseas, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is enhancing its Training Regulations (TR) in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry.
This is to make potential call center and other BPO workers more competitive, efficient and attuned to the demands of the times.
Combined IT infrastructure services include application hosting, service desk, storage, networking and managed security
Dell Services and Atos have entered into a partnership to deliver a new IT outsourcing services offering that will provide a standardised cloud-based IT infrastructure and global support offering for information services and publishing company Wolters Kluwer customers in the legal, tax, finance and healthcare industries.
Everyone agrees the State of Wisconsin has been wasting tens of millions of dollars outsourcing public projects that could be done in-house more efficiently. Every significant study on the subject agrees. The Legislative Audit Bureau agrees. The Governor’s Commission on Waste, Fraud and Abuse agrees. State agencies and key legislators agree.
So what are the Walker administration and Republican legislators proposing? A new bill that would weaken existing state law that requires agencies to assess in advance the costs vs. benefits of outsourcing work.
Bringing an outsourcing partner in-house builds a strong relationship but the contract should always be used to get them to fully deliver, according to Thames Water’s head of procurement.
Speaking to SM, Simon Rutter, head of procurement at Thames Water, explained that a year after outsourcing the firm’s strategic sourcing to Efficio, he is very pleased by the decision. “The main strength is we have consultancy-level capability on tap. So high-quality people, leading-edge methodology and the best data-analysis skills,” he said.
U.S. Rep. Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Township) introduced a bill Tuesday requiring large, American-based, multinational corporations to disclose how many jobs they have outsourced.
Currently, public filings disclose the current number of employees in a given company. The Outsourcing Accountability Act of 2012 (HR 3875) would require firms with revenues of more than $1 billion to report how many employees they have in the United States broken down by state; jobs abroad would have to be broken down by country.
Even as private equity majors continue to make the best of the rally in the Indian stock markets, they have lined two outsourcing companies for share sales. The two sales together could rake in over $200 million for the PE-backers of these companies, according to VCCircle’s analysis of the current share prices of these companies.
Everyone agrees the state of Wisconsin has been wasting tens of millions of dollars outsourcing public projects that could be done in-house more efficiently. Every significant study on the subject agrees. The Legislative Audit Bureau agrees. The Governor’s Commission on Waste, Fraud and Abuse agrees. State agencies and key legislators agree.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has completed its acquisition of Emptoris Inc. The acquisition expands IBM’s cloud-based analytics offerings that provide supply chain intelligence leading to better inventory management and cost efficiencies.
DALLAS–Small-and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) seeking cloud services previously only available to global corporations can now transform their business operations using a new suite of cloud services from Xerox Corporation.
“Expanding Xerox’s IaaS and Backup and Recovery services to SMBs is the next step toward offering a full suite of business cloud services that SMBs can access on a ‘pay-as-you-go’ model.”
Jennifer Wedel’s encounter with President Obama Monday has sparked debate on a controversial issue that many say lies at the heart of the U.S. economy: visas for high-skilled foreign workers.
Wedel’s husband, a semi-conductor engineer, hasn’t had a permanent job for three years. When she raised the issue during Monday’s Google+ “Hangout,” and asked why foreign workers were getting visas for high-skilled work, the president expressed surprise and asked her to send him her husband’s resume.
The retail distribution review will benefit multi-managers as it will boost the number of advisers who outsource portfolio management, boutique fund manager Tim Gardner has said.
However Mr Gardner, co-manager of three multi-manager funds for Legal & General, said when advisers outsource investment management they will not just demand expert fund selection, but also asset allocation skills, which he claimed were rare among multi-managers.
As the economy struggles to rebound, many companies have delayed plans for larger capital construction projects. However, there continue to be small projects organizations cannot avoid—things that just need to get done.
At all businesses, there is always a wide range of small projects. Maintaining a staff large and diverse enough to handle such a range of projects would not be efficient for a mill such as Thilmany Papers, which employs more than 500 people, said Mark Kjorlie, Facility Development and Capital Manager at Thilmany.
