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Investigating Outsourcing
An insider\'s view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.
September 2010
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Who said Indian suppliers lack innovation?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Sep 2010 -
RBS UK IT staff morale down as offshoring takes hold
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Sep 2010 -
Will intra company transfer loophole be closed in immigration cap report next month?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Sep 2010
BA and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have created an SAP system for the airline to support aircraft maintenance. IT bosses often refer to outsourcing suppliers as "extensions to the IT ...
In the last couple of days I have been contacted by a couple of members of the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) IT team. One RBS IT worker told us that the internal jobs board at the bank earlier ...
A report being put together by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) about the immigration cap will be published some time in October. But will it include the dreaded Intra Company Transfer (ICT) ...
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The ghost of Satyam is laid to rest
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Sep 2010 -
Lehman Brothers in London opens to tie up loose ends
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Sep 2010 -
Mahindra Satyam has cut its losses as ship steadies
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Sep 2010 -
Is offshoring reducing IT pay in London finance sector?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Sep 2010 -
What do Google and Apple have in common with HCL and Cognizant?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Sep 2010 -
"Corruption and inefficiency" blighted India's Commonwealth Games, says Indian private sector
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Sep 2010 -
The software that costs the most to fix once live, revealed
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 28 Sep 2010
Following the announcement of Mahindra Satyam's latest annual results its European head told me the company "has put the past to rest." Vikram Nair also told me some of the IT service provider's ...
Two years after its collapse staff at Lehman Brothers in London's Canary Wharf are back. I was talking to a former IT worker at investment bank Lehman Brothers today. He told me a lot of the former ...
Indian IT supplier Mahindra Satyam seems to be steadying its ship. In 2009 it made massive losses of £1.241bn following the billion dollar fraud, known as India's Enron, committed by its chairman B ...
The recession and increased offshoring to cut costs are both affecting IT pay levels. A report from recruitment consultancy Robert Walters has revealed a drop in pay between 2009 and 2010 for IT ...
I had a meeting the other week with a supplier with an interesting way of showing how well it is doing. What better way than to group yourself alongside Google and Apple? The intelligence arm of ...
Should India's Commonwealth Games have been organised by the private sector? I was talking to a senior executive at one of the big Indian IT service providers about the fiasco which has so far been ...
A survey by software quality testing company Cast, known as appmarq , has today revealed the typical costs companies could face fixing code after software has been rolled into the live environment. ...
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Government software applications are the hardest to change
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 28 Sep 2010 -
Immigration fault line in coalition gets wider
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Sep 2010 -
IT immigration loophole debate hits the mainstream
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Sep 2010 -
SMEs too loyal to staff to outsource IT jobs
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Sep 2010 -
Offshoring IT is not making UK computer scientists the largest unemployed group, says BCS
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Sep 2010
Public sector applications are the most difficult and costly to change according to a report published today.The appmarq report, from software quality benchmarking firm Cast, carried out analysis ...
Interesting article in the Mail today. Apparently Vince Cable's claims that the immigration cap is damaging UK businesses could be a load of rubbish.Apparently the three firms, that were cited as ...
BBC 5 Live last night featured the controversial subject of the Intra Company Transfer or ICT for short.Find a podcast of last night's broadcast, 5 Live investigates, here. In the time given the ...
I did a blog post last week about the potential for SMEs to outsource IT in large volumes. I have since had some interesting reaction from the National Outsourcing Association (NOA), which ...
This blog has been focussing quite heavily on the potential damage to the UK IT industry caused by offshoring work to lower cost locations. I recently quoted the latest figures from the Higher ...