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Investigating Outsourcing
An insider\'s view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.
April 2011
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IT professionals getting too comfortable despite the choppy economic waters
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 28 Apr 2011 -
Has BT Global Services turned a corner and if so what corner?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Apr 2011 -
Indian suppliers are the new IT bellwethers
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Apr 2011
I was sent a press release this week about a survey that shows an increasing desire for IT professionals to reduce their working weeks to four days in exchange for less money. I wrote a little news ...
A colleague sent me an article written by IDC analyst Douglas Hayward about BT Global Services. The IT outsourcing arm of BT has had a pretty bad time recently. In 2009 it lost £1.2bn due to cost ...
When I started working as a journalist in the IT sector IBM was always used as the bellwether for IT spending. If its results were bad it usually meant businesses weren't spending on IT. If the ...
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Orange call centre staff in Darlington told to move to the Philippines or face redundancy
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 20 Apr 2011 -
KPMG gives Equaterra the breadth it needs to be more focussed
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 19 Apr 2011 -
More needs to be done to make cloud computing mainstream
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 Apr 2011 -
Computer Weekly goes to print for the last time as new era begins
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 15 Apr 2011 -
Banks could soon have to seperate groupwide outsourcing contracts?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 14 Apr 2011 -
Experience of IT offshoring from the coal face
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 08 Apr 2011 -
Could IBM's prediction of reverse IT offshoring be coming true?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 07 Apr 2011
Reports are doing the rounds today about how Orange is transferring 40 call centre jobs from Darlington in County Durham to Manila in the Philippines. Apparently if staff transfer to Manila they ...
Now that Equaterra has been integrated with KPMG it is an appropriate time to look a bit more closely. So what does the acquisition mean to businesses buying sourcing advice from the ...
I interviewed, BG Srinivas, the European head at Indian IT services firm Infosys last week. We were discussing the company's latest financial results. We had a brief chat about the cloud. I ask all ...
Today is a sad day at Computer Weekly because it is the last ever press day for Computer Weekly in print. The magazine has been going for 45 years and although it will continue online and in its ...
Banks are big spenders when it comes to IT outsourcing and big banks have large ecosystems of service providers. If the changes to the banking sector proposed by the Independent Banking ...
I recently blogged about reasons why the government might not want to limit the use of Intra Company Transfers (ICTs). As I do a lot of blog posts and receive a lot of reaction about the problems ...
Can it be true that overseas companies, including those in India, are demanding UK IT workers in increasing numbers? Back in October I wrote a tongue-in-cheek blog post about why UK IT workers ...
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Fujitsu given another chance after heart to heart with Highland Council
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 07 Apr 2011 -
Hopes for level playing field for UK IT workers fading after U-turn on immigrant worker pay
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 06 Apr 2011 -
5 reasons why government doesn't really want to reduce number of offshore IT workers in UK
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 06 Apr 2011 -
Public sector IT workers not up to the private sector challenge, or are they?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 05 Apr 2011 -
Expert advice on moving from public sector IT to private sector IT
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 05 Apr 2011
Fujitsu and the Highland Council have had their meeting about council concerns that Fujitsu might not be able to meet its contractual obligations in a £70m IT services contract. The uncertainty ...
Last month I blogged the news that the government was raising the minimum salaries that immigrant IT workers in many roles have to be paid to be allowed to stay in the UK. Some of these rises, ...
The immigration cap has kicked in today. The IT industry as we know has mixed feelings about it. I blog a lot about the government's decision to leave out the controversial Intra Company Transfer ...
I have been blogging about whether public sector IT staff have what it takes to succeed in the private sector. I recently asked, through a Google questionnaire, the question of whether public ...
I recently dipped my toes into the world of crowdsourcing when I asked for opinions on how public sector IT staff can get into the private sector. I have had a few respondents who have taken time ...