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Investigating Outsourcing
An insider\'s view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.
May 2010
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Are Accenture, Deloitte, IBM etc under pressure from IT specialists?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 May 2010 -
Public sector cuts could lead to "golden age of outsourcing"
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 25 May 2010 -
Wipro's strategy in Europe outlined
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 25 May 2010
Wipro is targeting growth in the consultancy space and is already taking staff from the likes of Accenture, IBM, DeloitteAccording to new European head of Wipro this is because of it "business ...
Interesting take on the government cuts in the Guardian. Seymour Pierce analyst Caroline de La Soujeole says government cuts might only hurt outsourced service providers in the short term. In the ...
Wipro's new European head, Jeffrey Heenan Jalil, outlined his plans for the business to me yesterday.This plan is made up of three key themes. These are: Transformation, glocalisation and ...
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Wipro tries but struggles to fill IT roles in Europe with Europeans
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 25 May 2010 -
MillenniunIT will have to hold back its sales instincts for now
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 21 May 2010 -
Does China offshoring need a Western Hand?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 20 May 2010 -
China needs a Y2K to overtake India
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 19 May 2010 -
Will new Google ranking rule stimulate outsourced web development?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 May 2010 -
IT suppliers should come out the closet over SME sector
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 May 2010 -
Can MindTree combine low cost services with high end consultancy?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 May 2010
I was with Wipro's recently appointed head of Europe, Jeffrey Heenan Jalil, yesterday.I will blog about his strategy going forward but I was interested in hearing about his recruitment struggles. ...
It must be strange for the management and workers of a supplier that is bought by a customer.The London Stock Exchange acquired Sri Lanka based MillenniumIT last year, primarily to replace its core ...
Do Chinese IT suppliers need to be managed from the West to make it big in global offshoring?Following my meeting with Nigel Grieve of Bleum, I though I would ask this question.Bleum is a software ...
I met with Bleum today. This is a software development firm that is based in China. It is US owned and managed and boasts Walmart as a customer.I was with its UK director Nigel Grieve today and we ...
If research carried out by website optimization firm Aptimize is accurate the UK's FTSE companies need to improve the performance of their websites.It describes how UK FTSE companies have slower ...
Having worked for the press covering the IT channel and for the last few years being more end user focused, I couldn't have avoided noticing a degree of snobbery in the supplies sector, when it ...
As promised in an earlier post I thought I would write a bit more about my meeting with Indian service provider MindTree and the offshore service pioneer, Ashok Soota, who chairs the company. ...
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IT service providers get a excited but rein in your killer instincts.
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 May 2010 -
Western IT giants ignored the Indians too long
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 May 2010 -
TCS practices what it preaches
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 May 2010 -
Winner of the World Cup ticket caption contest chosen
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 May 2010 -
IT contracts could bare brunt of initial government cuts
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 May 2010
If you see an over excited IT supplier salesperson throw water on him or her.IT outsourcing service providers can get a bit more excited this year but should rein in their killer ...
I met up with Ashok Soota on Friday. He is the executive chairman of tier two Indian service provider MindTree.I will write more about MindTree in due course because they are an interesting ...
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) consolidated its business when it knew its business was going to take off. Now its customers want the same to help them when times are bad.One of the purposes of ...
I have chosen the picture caption that has won the the pair of tickets to this year's World Cup final in South Africa.The winner is Lisa S with:"Generally it's gone great, but as you can see we're ...
I blogged last week about how outsourcing is seen by some as a way of cutting the deficit but the new government could see cancelling outsourcing contracts as a better way to do this.This could ...