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Investigating Outsourcing
An insider\'s view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.
May 2011
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Nasscom hits back at Public Accounts Committee report
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 31 May 2011 -
Shared services not worth the time in public sector? It can't be true.
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 May 2011 -
UK legal profession cetain of uncertainties of Indian data protection law
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 May 2011
The use of Intra Company Transfers is contentious at the best of times. But when the economy is struggling, the practice of bringing offshore workers to the UK, is highly contentious. A recent ...
I have written fairly extensively about shared services in the public sector. It seems to make perfect sense for public sector organisations, which share common processes, should share the people ...
The Indian Data protection law, which was introduced last month, has created uncertainty in the outsourcing sector and clarification is needed on a rule that could create a burdensome business ...
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Hope for Mckinnon, but has anything changed?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 May 2011 -
Could India's data protection law be remedy to lingering corporate doubts?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 May 2011 -
Views of IT outsourcing and broken TV connections from the house warming party
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 May 2011 -
Letting IT service providers get close can only benefit a business
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 19 May 2011 -
IT head at Aurora talks pick and mix sourcing
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 May 2011 -
Latest report on immigration system abuse. Waste of paper or step in the right direction?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 May 2011 -
Sourcing department sophistication could reduce outsourcing
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 16 May 2011
This is a bit off my beaten track as it has nothing to do with outsourcing, but as Computer Weekly has followed the case of Pentagon hacker Gary Mckinnon so closely I thought it worth writing about ...
The growth of India as a destination for offshore IT services has been astonishing. When the millennium bug approached in 1999 western businesses wanted low cost software companies to help the ...
IT outsourcing is big business but if you talk to IT workers you are left wondering how? The IT outsourcing sector in the UK was worth £41.7bn in 2009, according to research from Oxford Economics. ...
I have recently wrote an articles that have looked at the trend of businesses sharing information with IT service providers.If you do this both parties can plan better.Today I was with Tony ...
I recently met Aurora IT head John Bovill. I asked him to do a guest blog post about his thoughts on IT outsourcing. Here it is. PICK AND MIX OUTSOURCING. By John Bovill "All functions within a ...
Yet another report has been published that points to companies abusing the UK immigration system to bring in cheap IT workers. There seems to be a report into this every other month. All point to ...
Quite a few people I have spoken to recently have talked about the increased sophistication of the departments within businesses that are responsible for sourcing decisions. This better ...
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Should government rely less on outsourcing and have more web developers in-house?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 13 May 2011 -
The Indian IT suppliers are still on steroids
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 13 May 2011 -
BT. The unknown quantity in mid-market IT?
- TechTarget 11 May 2011 -
Is In-house and crowdsourced software development answer to government's success?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 11 May 2011 -
Banks creating the roadmaps for the next phase of IT outsourcing
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 10 May 2011
In-House human IT resources are considered too expensive for many organisations. Even the UK government, which is a heavy user of web technology, lacks the web development resources it needs. And ...
I recently did an article about the recovery in the IT services sector in 2010.This was based on analysis from Gartner. It revealed that businesses spent 3.1% more on IT services globally in 2010 ...
When I was approached about having a meeting with BT Engage IT I thought "who are they?" It turns out they serve UK companies that sit between the high end BT Business operation and the low end BT ...
I was at a preview of the work that has been done by the government to create a pilot of a website that will introduce a single domain for all government departments and services. The pilot, ...
The recession hit the banks the hardest but it is the banks that are leading the way in the IT recovery and creating roadmaps for the next phase of IT outsourcing. According to BG Srinivas, ...