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Investigating Outsourcing
An insider\'s view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.
October 2012
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Migration Advisory Committee report is flawed and does UK IT professionals no favours
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 31 Oct 2012 -
Is Xerox's European services plan in tatters and is ACS to it what EDS is to HP?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 31 Oct 2012 -
Cost cutting primary driver in only 10% of BPO deals
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 31 Oct 2012
Damning retort to the pay recommendations for non EEA IT workers.The Migration Advisory Committees (MAC) recently published its salary recommendations that non EEA IT workers, applying for UK ...
Xerox's plans to grow its services business in Europe could be in tatters. A source told me it is about to lay off lots of people.This is the Xerox that acquired US IT and business process services ...
There is a constant debate about whether IT outsourcing has moved beyond being a strategy purely to cut costs or if it is a good way of improving business performance. If you talk to outsourcing ...
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Is recession and search for discounts reversing multi-sourced IT services?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Oct 2012 -
Richard Branson tells CEOs to harness social media
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Oct 2012 -
EE finds Newcastle businesses to have highest demand for 4G but makes them wait
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Oct 2012 -
Are outsourcing terminologies thinly veiled euphemisms for privatisation?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Oct 2012 -
Are HP's claims over internal IT mess justified?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Oct 2012 -
Could outsourcing damage the Police's ability to police?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Oct 2012 -
Did General Motors just fall out of love with outsourcing?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Oct 2012
Multi-sourcing was a strong theme at the recent Gartner outsourcing summit in London. I attended several presentation about the challenges managing multiple IT service providers. The likes of ...
I have written blogs about how mobile, social media and cloud are three fast growing areas for IT service providers.I think mobile and cloud are areas that businesses are either investing in or ...
So 4G is now available in 11 cities in the UK, from EE, so businesses can start to consume high bandwidth services such as video.I chose the headline I did because EE, previously known as ...
As public sector plans to outsource to cut capital expenditure increase there are more and more stories about the outsourcing of public services hitting the headlines.It is interesting to see the ...
When HP announced its financials Meg Whitman said part of the blame for the company under-performing was internal IT. More specifically she blamed the lack of compelling sales and customer ...
Back office outsourcing removes important link between frontline police services and back office, says union.Yet more controversy in public sector when it comes to outsourcing. This time it's the ...
I recently blogged about GM's decision to insource IT. I asked whether people think it is a one off or a move that might be copied by other large firms. I am working on an analysis of the move so ...
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Has Barnet council lost its way on outsourcing and could its leader be axed over issue?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Oct 2012 -
What makes a good CIO?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Oct 2012 -
Barnet council leader could be next to go in local government outsourcing row
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 25 Oct 2012 -
Over 100 reasons why local government shouldn't outsource
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 25 Oct 2012 -
Are you against preferential tax benefits for offshore IT workers in the UK?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 24 Oct 2012
I wrote earlier this week about a call from councillors in Barnet for a confidence vote on the council leadership. This has arisen over a controversial outsourcing project known as Barnet One.I ...
I recently met Matt Barney from Infosys. He is the person in charge of developing leaders within Infosys.I blogged about how he turns his executives into the rock stars of the IT services world. ...
It seems that confidence votes over local government leadership are becoming the order of the day. And more to the point it is the outsourcing of council services that is driving this ...
I came across this article when I was writing about Cornwall council's controversial outsourcing debate.It comes from Unison at Barnet council and lists over 100 examples of reasons why Barnet ...
I have been emailed an e-petition that someone has created. These are the online petitions that get discussed by the government if they get a certain abound of signatures. I think it is 5000.The ...