The five most important pieces of information on outsourcing that I have found this week in my travels through the web. IBM announced first-quarter 2011 earnings: Total revenues for the first quarter of 2011 of $24.6 billion increased 8 percent from the first quarter of 2010. IBM will hit $100 billion this year, is...
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Take 5, April 22, 2011
The five most important pieces of information on outsourcing that I have found this week in my travels through the web. 25 Most Dangerous Cities for Offshore Outsourcing: The annual survey of offshore outsourcing location risk, conducted by the Datamonitor Group (formerly the Brown-Wilson Group), asked 3,100 corporate development leaders, including more than 400...
Take 5, April 15, 2011
The five most important pieces of information on outsourcing that I have found this week in my travels through the web. Outsourcing – The New Paradigm - “A hundred years ago, companies stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dynamos and plugged into the newly built electric grid…Today, a similar revolution is...
Take 5, April 8, 2011
The five most important pieces of information on outsourcing that I have found this week in my travels through the web. Jim Love, Chelsea Consulting Group CEO, has recently written a number of articles on outsourcing for the Cutter Journal www.cutter.com , I believe that you will find these articles topical, insightful and right for our times ...
Take 5, March 25, 2011
The five most important pieces of information on outsourcing that I have found this week in my travels through the web. Outsourcing’s Relentless March: Gartner predicts that the rise of cloud computing, virtualization, and mobile devices not only will drive many firms to relinquish the commodity support functions that consume many IT resources, but...
Take 5, March 11, 2011
The five most important pieces of information on outsourcing that I have found this week in my travels through the web. Outsourcing Governance: I believe that in the future we are going to see far more emphasis placed on the governance of the outsourcing deals that has been in the past. Through effective governance...
Take 5, March 4, 2011
The five most important pieces of information on outsourcing that I have found this week in my travels through the web. Insourcing – an increasingly popular option: There is a number of large organizations and advisory firms that will tell you that insourcing of currently outsourced IT is a viable option. While some organizations...
Take 5, February 25, 2011
The five most important pieces of information on outsourcing that I have found this week in my travels through the web. Outsourcing Relationship Management: Although a number of outsourcing buyers and providers achieve a base level of cost savings through their arrangements, recent research (from Deloitte Consulting, Forrester, and CIO magazine, to name a...
Take 5 , February 18, 2011
The five most important pieces of information on outsourcing that I have found this week in my travels through the web. Managing Complex Outsourcing Relationships has never been easy—in a recent Vantage Partners survey, 71% of customer and service provider respondents say they begin facing challenges within a year of contract signing. Half also...
Windows 7 Upgrade – What Your Vendor Doesn’t Want You To Know
Thinking about upgrading to Windows 7? Your hardware vendor is thrilled! It’s a bonanza for him. Here’s what I read in ZDNet today. Microsoft’s Windows 7 arrived in late 2009 and kicked off a PC upgrade cycle that’s expected to last a few years. Windows 7 got Microsoft back in the game among...