I’m guessing many of you are asking if cloud computing isn’t just a new name for ASPs, software as a service, outsourcing or, for us older guys, timesharing. While the cloud certainly shares principles with all of them, something more significant is happening, something with the same impact as the generational shift from mainframes to [...]
Thu, April 21 2011 » Business Transformation Trends, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
Indian CEOs are to be now offered the choice of outsourcing all or part of their managerial responsibilities for a specified period. Offering ‘Interim Managers’ is a concept being brought here by Paris-based X-PM Transition Partners. They have assisted companies like Alstom, ArcelorMittal, Barclays PE, Bombardier and Thomson in this regard. In India, it has [...]
Tue, April 19 2011 » Business Transformation Trends, Employment Trends » No Comments
Information security professionals should treat cloud computing as they would any other external supplier, according to an analyst at the Information Security Forum. “Cloud is just outsourcing. You can rely on knowledge of how you do outsourcing to an extent – there is enough there to help you, as long as you remember the seven [...]
Tue, February 22 2011 » Business Transformation Trends, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
Although there has been some movement toward mobile network outsourcing in the U.S. market–in July 2009 Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) inked a $5 billion network outsourcing deal with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC)–much of the growth in outsourcing is happening in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. And according to new research from Infonetics, the network outsourcing trend is [...]
Fri, December 24 2010 » Business Transformation Trends, Management Trends » No Comments
CHENNAI: With a view to generating employment opportunities in rural areas, the Tamil Nadu government has unveiled Rural Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Policy 2010′ providing capital and training subsidies to BPO units setting shop in village panchayats. According to a government order, the information technology department will play the role of a facilitator in receiving [...]
Mon, August 16 2010 » Employment Trends » No Comments
ONLY a year since launching their last project in Asiatown I.T. Park in Cebu City, a major real estate developer launched a new building last week. Skyrise 4 adds at least 13,200 square meters of space for business process outsourcing (BPO) companies. Harry Valloria, Skyrise Realty and Development Corp. president, said Friday’s launch was their [...]
Tue, August 10 2010 » Business Services, Industry Leader Profiles » No Comments
In October 2008, at the height of the financial crisis when job markets were freezing up globally, Akane Natori easily found a position she liked. “Things went so smoothly after applying online, and before I knew it, I had the job,” said Ms Natori, who was then a 26-year-old sales assistant at an import-export company [...]
Wed, July 28 2010 » Business Transformation Trends, Employment Trends, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
In a seventh-floor conference room festooned with framed articles and journalism awards, Managing Editor Gordon Witkin leads the morning discussion of stories his staff is pursuing. Their latest scoop — on members of Congress dumping their BP stock — “was a big success,” he says. “It was in an AP story that sent it everywhere, [...]
Fri, July 16 2010 » Business Transformation Trends, Document Outsourcing, Outsourcing Business Trends » No Comments
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