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Investigating Outsourcing
An insider\'s view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.
November 2012
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Do IT analysts skew the services market?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Nov 2012 -
Are banks wasting money on mobile and online innovation?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Nov 2012 -
Has the touchpaper of offshoring confidential UK citizen data been ignited?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 28 Nov 2012
I recently met up with an analyst relations executive form a consultancy. Being a journalist who regularly talks to analysts it was interesting to get some views on industry analysts from the other ...
I recently wrote an article about some research looking into what banks were intending to spend money on. The research jointly done by Infosys and banking association Efma found that 70% of 330 ...
I wrote in October about Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) winning a contract with the Home Office to run the Criminal Records disclosure service for over 10 years. The contract is worth hundreds of ...
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Cisco has 75% of European networking services sewn up. Survey part 6
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 28 Nov 2012 -
Don't forget you can outsource almost anything except for responsibility
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 28 Nov 2012 -
Inside outsourcing interview: Downturn gave tier two Hexaware access to skills to help it compete
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Nov 2012 -
Are IT contractors winning multiple contracts and sub-letting work to low-cost workers?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Nov 2012 -
There is much more IT outsourcing to come at UK banks
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Nov 2012 -
Accenture and Capgemini latest corporations identified as tax avoiders
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Nov 2012 -
Was data that might have stopped £1.4bn rogue trader at UBS deleted at Indian centre?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Nov 2012
I have been blogging about the findings of research from Computer weekly parent company TechTarget.Part one looked at how IT services budgets will change next year. See it here. Part two revealed ...
When things go wrong in outsourcing contracts the service provider might pay a penalty but no matter how much that is it will not cover things like reputational damage. In this guest blog ...
Here is the latest Inside Outsourcing interview where I let suppliers tell me what they are doing. I have started of with a run of Indian suppliers. My first in the series was with Infosys, then ...
I was approached yesterday by BBC radio asking me whether I was aware of a trend that is seeing IT contractors win multiple jobs and then subletting them to low cost IT professionals from overseas. ...
There may not be many greenfield sites for IT outsourcing at banks but there is plenty of space for more. Nationwide building society is an example of a bank that was late to the outsourcing table, ...
Accenture and Capgemini, which both have lucrative contracts with HMRC are the latest companies to be drawn to the UK corporate tax avoidance row.According to a report here on Contractor UK, which ...
Reports suggesting that an offshore service in India being partly responsible for missing for missing the rogue trading that cost UBS £1.4bn seem to be accurate. I was talking to a contact of mine ...
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Indian offshore IT service was part of the cause of £1.4bn loss at UBS
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Nov 2012 -
Is technology knowledge more important than price when choosing an IT service provider?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Nov 2012 -
Can CIOs move completely off the Microsoft stack or will SI vested interests make it difficult?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Nov 2012 -
Why is the UK IT services industry employing less and generating less revenue?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Nov 2012 -
West Midlands police force chooses IT task force over service providers
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Nov 2012
It seems, according to this report, that the £1.4bn loss at UBS caused by a rogue trader could have been avoided if a service managed offshore by an Indian IT services provider had not failed. The ...
I have been blogging about the findings of research from Computer weekly parent company Techtarget.Part one looked at how IT services budgets will change next year. See it here. Part two revealed ...
I was having a conversation with an IT supplier last week about the cloud and how it was changing and it appears CIOs are asking: where does Microsoft play these days?It is being attacked from all ...
I wrote an article on Computer weekly yesterday about the latest research about the size of the UK outsourcing sector. This is done every year by Oxford Economics.It looks at the entire outsourcing ...
We have joint ventures, shared services, full outsourcing, mutuals and all kinds of partnerships in the public sector to help deliver IT services.They are all controversial. Today I read about West ...