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Investigating Outsourcing
An insider\'s view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.
March 2011
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How do I understand the true cost of putting IT in the cloud?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 31 Mar 2011 -
Will ending the IT services to government Oligopoly improve things?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Mar 2011 -
Things could get worse for Fujitsu as customer consults solicitors
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Mar 2011
Cloud computing seems to be on every IT director's shopping list, but do they really understand the costs of moving in-house resources into the cloud. IT service providers are the companies doing ...
The government has reconfirmed that it wants to end the current situation that sees a few large IT services firms dominate central government accounts. See its latest IT strategy report in full ...
The Highland Council in Scotland has taken legal advice on a deal with Fujitsu which has missed service delivery targets. The £66m deal is for IT services. Councilor Carolyn Wilson at the Highland ...
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Video: how bringing offshore IT workers to UK is destroying UK IT profession and ripping off taxman
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Mar 2011 -
All eyes on Fujitsu's desktop deal with Centrica
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 25 Mar 2011 -
IT professionals shed light on differences between public and private sector
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 25 Mar 2011 -
Orange and T-Mobile UK operation outsources its IT to T-Systems
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 25 Mar 2011 -
Crowdsourced guide to transferring to private sector IT from public sector IT
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 24 Mar 2011 -
Fujitsu loses £500m 10 year IT services deal with Thomson Reuters after less than four years.
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Mar 2011 -
79% private sector CIOs prefer private sector IT skills
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Mar 2011
Since I have blogged recently about the problem caused by businesses bringing offshore workers to the UK I thought I would promote a Youtube video (see below) sent in by a reader. This video, which ...
Following Fujitsu's loss of two major deals recent customers might be forgiven if they are worried about decisions to outsource desktops to the supplier. Fujitsu lost its £300m plus desktop support ...
I posted a blog yesterday asking IT professionals to share their experiences working in the public and private sectors. I put in a questionnaire as an attempt to crowdsource a guide for IT ...
I was told that the T-Mobile and Orange joint venture in the UK known as Everything Everywhere has outsourced its IT to T-Systems. The deal could be worth about £700m and will see a couple of ...
I have recently been writing quite a lot about the opportunities in the private sector for IT professionals with public sector IT backgrounds. With the public sector haemorrhaging jobs, workers ...
It has not been a good couple of weeks for Fujitsu and the bad news could be set to continue with the DWP ending its desktop services contract before it started.. Now it turns out it has lost a ...
I recently blogged about some research from the Financial Times which suggested that 57% of private businesses were not prepared to take on public sector workers with over half claiming they were ...
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Masochistic government IT offshoring rules that reduce tax revenue and increase discontent
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Mar 2011 -
Did Fujitsu misprice the DWP deal?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 21 Mar 2011 -
Lloyds Banking Group removes another 1000 in-house jobs
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 Mar 2011 -
Offshore IT workers in the UK avoid paying taxes but are not breaking the law
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 Mar 2011 -
It was a bad week at the office for Fujitsu
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 Mar 2011
George Osborne would have a tax boost if Coalition was tougher on IT offshorers bringing workers to the UK. In my job as a business journalists I am constantly hearing the phrase "It's a win, win" ...
Following the ending of the £330m plus desktop services agreement between Fujitsu and the Department of Work and Pensions, the industry is discussing how Fujitsu managed to fail to take on the ...
Lloyds Banking Group is continuing its strategy to cut and outsource UK roles. The bank is going to cut 570 jobs and outsource another 450. See this report in The Guardian. In the summer of 2009 ...
I write a lot about how UK IT professionals are often replaced by workers from overseas using Intra Company Transfer (ICT) visas. These workers are attractive to UK businesses because they cost ...
This week has not been a good one for Fujitsu. The IT service provider was dumped from a £300m plus desktop services deal by the DWP and was also criticised in a National Audit Office (NAO) report ...