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IT <endeca_term>outsourcing</endeca_term>: Ten reasons for ruling it out

IT outsourcing: Ten reasons for ruling it out

...critical aspect of the business system. To outsource or not to outsourceThe outsourcing issue will be argued back and forth, but I've seen its... Read more

11 March, 2012 by Jack Wallen

Birmingham City Council transfers IT roles to India

Up to 100 posts transferred offshore by the end of the year... Read more

24 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

IT workers: 10 ways to avoid being outsourced

...projects that require face-to-face interaction or on-site development, offshore outsourcing becomes problematic. "When you are looking at the providers that are in... Read more

29 September, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Ten steps CIOs should follow for a better sourcing strategy

...current IT services available in the organisation to determine the gap that outsourcing is expected to fill. CIOs should then build up a list of... Read more

13 September, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Megadeals are out and multisourcing is in as Europe's outsourcing spend rises

And global outsourcing spend declines... Spending on new outsourcing deals in Europe rose during the... Read more

27 July, 2011 by Nick Heath

HCL shifts focus from commodity IT to business

...lagging". While the company continued to grow, its share of the Indian outsourcing business had dropped and the company was "at risk of drifting into... Read more

9 May, 2011 by Jo Best

UK outsourcing generates over £200bn a year

...Demand for IT services has helped outsourcing become one of the highest grossing industries in the UK, research has... Read more

4 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

UK outsourcing almost rivals financial services

Demand for IT services boosts British outsourcing market... Demand for IT services has helped outsourcing become one of the... Read more

3 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

HMRC spends £765m on IT outsourcing deal

...spent 44 percent of its 2009-10 supplier budget on its IT outsourcing deal led by Capgemini. New figures released by the tax-collection agency... Read more

9 November, 2010 by Kable

Multi-sourcing: CIOs tips on making it work for you - and your suppliers

...are moving away from trusting single suppliers to deliver multi-billion pound outsourcing megadeals in favour of accessing services from multiple providers instead. Almost 40... Read more

3 February, 2012 by Nick Heath

Outsourcing, offshoring: Not all it's cracked up to be

...callcentre.jpg" alt="Finance bosses and local government are being cautious about outsourcing" title="Finance bosses and local government are being cautious about outsourcing" height... Read more

5 May, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

EDF Energy outsources IT support to Capgemini

...100m outsourcing deal should cut costs and improve services... Gas and electricity supplier EDF... Read more

2 March, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

Socitm records 1,000 IT job losses in public sector

...continuing to drop due to budget pressures, with public authorities relying on outsourcing and service sharing to compensate, according to the IT Trends in Local... Read more

21 January, 2011 by Matthew Broersma

Cabinet Office strikes efficiencies deal with Vertex

...Customer management outsourcing company Vertex has become the latest to sign a memorandum of understanding... Read more

21 December, 2010 by Kable

HCL: How the Indian outsourcer is giving itself a business makeover

...10m saving but nothing more. The trend away from providing old-school outsourcing - purely focused on cutting costs or jobs - to providing services that support... Read more

2 November, 2010 by Jo Best

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