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Investigating Outsourcing
An insider\'s view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.
February 2010
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Fujitsu strikes called off - breaking news
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Feb 2010 -
Will it be Nasscom, Brasscom, Slasscom or another?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Feb 2010 -
Fujitsu strike ballot results expected today
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Feb 2010
Unite members at Fujitsu have voted in favour of accepting an offer made by the employer through ACAS. A large 71% of voters voted with a four to one majority in favour of taking the offer.But the ...
India has lead the way for IT offshoring over the last ten years but like any sport the pioneers are always pegged back eventually. Cricket, Football and Rugby were once dominated by England but ...
The result of the ballot of Unite members at Fujitsu is expected today. Will workers do as the union recommends and accept the offer or are more strikes likely.Fujitsu suspended planned ...
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Where would a hung parliament leave bank plans to offshore IT?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 25 Feb 2010 -
Fujitsu brings in Officer of Continuous Improvement
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Feb 2010 -
Ousted IT blogger's redundancy makes him fit and softens his feet
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Feb 2010 -
HP, Fujitsu and now Siemens face strike action
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Feb 2010 -
Why are Brits and continentals so different in attitudes to outsourcing?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Feb 2010 -
Is Wipro is readying a bold cloud strategy?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Feb 2010 -
Why Barclays brought outsourced IT work back in-house.
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 19 Feb 2010
The more the election campaigns of the political parties drag on, the more I feel the next government will have a small majority or you never know there could be a hung parliament. No matter what ...
No it has got nothing to do with Big Brother, Orwell's that is, but Fujitsu is bringing the role of Officer of Continuous Improvement to an Enterprise near you.Forget the clipboard and half rimmed ...
This is part six of our series of blogs written by an IT worker who lost his job after his employer signed an outsourcing deal with an Indian supplier. This week he describes a rare bright spot of ...
Businesses outsourcing their IT have never been more aware of the risks of leaving staff welfare in the hands of service providers.We have all seen the troubles that HP has had recently with ...
According to Forrester companies in all Western European countries apart from the UK prefer to use contract IT staff over offshoring work.This according to a report as is to ensure they fit in with ...
Interesting story in the FT today. Wipro is carrying out a cloud computing experiment to see the potential cloud computing has in changing the way the outsourcing industry works.The pilot has found ...
Back in January I wrote a blog post that asked: Why is Barclays cutting IT suppliers and moving work in-house?This was in reaction to the banks decisions to end a desktop management contract with ...
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Steria had a buzz at NASSCOM 2010
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 Feb 2010 -
Wipro investigating a million dollar fraud
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 Feb 2010 -
How can Capgemini's outsourcing do well as consultancy and IT services do badly?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 Feb 2010 -
Is now the time for Indian suppliers to win big UK government contracts?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 Feb 2010 -
Find out what the BskyB/EDS court case means to outsourcing contracts.
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 Feb 2010
Hillary Robertson, Steria's director of business process outsourcing, has given me a quick outline of what she made of this year's Nasscom event in Mumbai.Like one attendee, that said Nasscom got ...
Wipro is investigating an internal fraud thought to be for $4m.It was carried out by an employee who obtained a colleague's password.The fraud is reported to have been discovered in December but to ...
Cagemini's financial results were typical of recent announcements, in that the rescession has hit sale and profits. But the sting in the tail, albiet a pleasant one, was that its outsourcing ...
This post follows a blog I wrote earlier this month which looked at the challenge the government faces when it comes to solving its offshoring dilemma. This blog posts describes a scenario where ...
Computer Weekly and Burnt-Oak Partners, which is a consultancy focused on delivering outsourcing contract results, are jointly holding a seminar that will explore what impact BSkyB's victory in its ...