Investigating Outsourcing

March 2012

• Is cloud computing more beneficial to business than traditional outsourcing?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Mar 2012

I wrote an article today about some research commissioned by Google. I revealed a few things including the importance of cloud computing in driving company strategy.The survey talks about the ...

• Unemployed IT professionals should blame education system not offshoring

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Mar 2012

I attended a roundtable event today at Intellect, the IT industry group. It was all about the use of technology to improve education as a whole as well as improving the teaching of what is broadly ...

• Is the UK government offshoring more IT to close UK skills gap?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Mar 2012

I recently ran a survey which asked people to give their views on some of the causes of a UK IT skills gap as well as some of the possible solutions.One of the things that stood up was the opinion ...

• What should government do to create more IT professionals that have the skills required?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Mar 2012

I ran a survey a couple of weeks ago asking people for their views on the alleged shortage of business ready IT professionals in the UK. It focussed on whether outsourcing, more particularly ...

• See Fujitsu director being beaten-up in a local council meeting

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Mar 2012

I have recently been following the ongoing saga that is the troubled £70m IT services deal between Fujitsu and The Highland Council.I wrote this story today about the meeting. Fujitsu Scotland ...

• Highland council Fujitsu IT services deal still problematic

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 20 Mar 2012

A £70m IT services contract, signed by the Highland Council in Scotland with Fujitsu, is causing friction as the sitting council and the opposition unite in protest at the contract's failure to ...

• HP loses the moral high ground at Rolls Royce but not necessarily the business

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 19 Mar 2012

There was an interesting contract announced today between Capgemini and Rolls Royce.Capgemini has been awarded the job of managing Rolls Royce's new multi-vendor sourcing strategy.It is 12 years ...

• Doubts cast over government's figures on business with SMEs

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 16 Mar 2012

A major talking point in the IT supplies sector is the issue of the UK government giving more business to SMEs. This week a businessman involved in advising the government about how to get new ...

• Could new breed of Indian IT suppliers sneak under the radar again

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 08 Mar 2012

I met Ashok Soota today. He was at the top of the Indian IT industry way before it famous. While Soota was the president of Wipro in the 80s and to late 90s, some of the senior executives of the ...

• Government shared services increased costs and reduce flexibility, says NAO

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 07 Mar 2012

Shared services are certainly not a new thing but the public sector cuts have certainly given them a new lease of life. Sharing back office processing is surely going to lead to savings. Not so for ...

• Is being put out of a job through employing cheap migrant workers for the greater good of UK PLC?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 01 Mar 2012

The Migration Advisory Committee's (MACs) latest report on the immigration cap has revealed a steep rise in the use of Intra Company Transfers by UK businesses, bringing workers into the UK from ...