Investigating Outsourcing
October 2010
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Lloyds Bank cuts offshore IT workforce but it's all bad news in the UK.
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 14 Oct 2010 -
What do you think about conventional wisdom on IT projects?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 14 Oct 2010 -
Outsourcing sector recruitment will increase when government wields the axe
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 14 Oct 2010
Government owned Lloyds Banking Group has reduced the number of offshore workers by 1,750, but made 2,700 UK IT workers redundant at the same time. The 4,500 cuts announced yesterday are related to ...
Because the comments being posted to this blog are usually very well informed on all matters IT, I thought it would be good to offer readers the chance to be involved in a major study. So if you ...
The outsourcing sector could be an opportunity for IT professionals as public sector jobs look set to go as part of the spending cuts. According to the latest research by PricewaterhouseCoopers ...
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Don't worry about us sending jobs to India because companies there will come here and employ you
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 13 Oct 2010 -
Horror stories of government waste, MIPS , KIPS and MOPS.
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 13 Oct 2010 -
Rubbish government IT contract could have been one of many
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 13 Oct 2010 -
Microsoft is latest to sign MOU with government, but what is in it?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 12 Oct 2010 -
C#, SQL, .NET and Javascript skills could be in short supply in the UK for a long time
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 12 Oct 2010 -
HP got the most IT money from the DWP last year and continues to increase DWP workload
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 12 Oct 2010 -
Indian IT workers are suffering as much as the UK staff they replace
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 12 Oct 2010
This blog often reports on the controversial subject of offshoring IT work. Although the blog is about IT outsourcing, I sometimes think it is dedicated to the debate about how offshoring is ...
The government spending review is almost upon us so it is time to talk about government waste. Sir Philip Green has already highlighted the amount of cash being wasted by the government and he ...
Sir Philip Green's report about government waste not unsurprisingly focussed quite a lot on IT. With the government spending review around the corner the report outlined one particularly wasteful ...
Microsoft has now joined the likes of Atos Origin and Capgemini after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the government as part of the Cabinet Office's drive to cut IT costs. In July ...
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation's (REC) latest report found there to be software development skills shortages in the UK. It indicated that employer demand for ICT staff continues to ...
This is an interesting top 100 list. It is the top 100 suppliers to the Department for Work and Pensions in 2009/2010 in terms of the amount of money spent with them. HP tops the list for IT ...
I found the union Unite's reaction to the latest HP job cuts interesting. Not just because of the HP cuts themselves, but more to do with something going on in India. If you think that Indian IT ...
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HP's EDS integration complete but job cuts continue
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 11 Oct 2010 -
European Commission could open the UK's door to Indian IT workers
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 11 Oct 2010 -
IBM criticised heavily as US website attacks corporates that offshore jobs
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 11 Oct 2010 -
Government IT cost cutting in five big bites
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 08 Oct 2010 -
Could the Government sell off government back-office functions to close deficit?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 08 Oct 2010
Just when we thought the integration of EDS to HP and the savage job cuts associated with it were over, another 1300 cuts in the UK bring home the extent of HP's plan to restructure. Union Unite is ...
A planned free trade agreement between the EU and India will give skilled Indian IT workers easy entry into the UK in return for European companies being given access to the massive Indian domestic ...
I read an article in the New York Times at the weekend. It was about a new website created to name and shame US corporate that have offshored work, amongst other things. The AFL-CIO which is a ...
The government spending review is on October 20 it is guaranteed to lead to nserious cost cutting . For the first time, almost everyone of voting age is not only aware of it, but interested. In the ...
Channel 4 news last night mentioned that George Osborne had a back up plan to help close the budget deficit if the spending review falls short. This involves selling off government assets. They ...