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Investigating Outsourcing
An insider\'s view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.
January 2013
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Inside Outsourcing interview: Infosys trailblazer on iGate and the arrival of outcome based service
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 31 Jan 2013 -
Is Nokia's offshoring a sign of the pressure it is under and a way of hiding redundancies?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Jan 2013 -
Cornwall councillor resigned over outsourcer's use of lie detectors to catch benefit cheats
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Jan 2013
I met up with the CEO of IT services firm iGate, Phaneesh Murthy, today. Just to explain the headline. In 1992 apparently Infosys was thinking about shutting down because its revenue had plateaued ...
Nokia was once the dominant force in the mobile phone sector. Then came the smartphone giants. The likes of Apple and Samsung have ripped into Nokia's market share and quickly put the Finnish firm ...
A councillor in Cornwall resigned from her post in Cornwall Council's cabinet after she discovered the council's service provider Capita was using lie detectors when doing telephone interviews with ...
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Good to see that some old fashion trading is going on after stock exchange disappointment
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 28 Jan 2013 -
News from Davos is less stressed with no crisis - BG Srinivas at Infosys reports
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 24 Jan 2013 -
Universities should outsource tracking of students with visas or face having rights revoked
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Jan 2013 -
Banking IT life support costs drain budgets - time to go off-the-shelf?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Jan 2013 -
How much is charisma at the top worth to Indian service providers?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Jan 2013 -
Time for system integrators to do a lot of work for charity and talk about it
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 21 Jan 2013 -
Restrict IT offshoring and prevent immanent skills shortage
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 21 Jan 2013
One of my beats at Computer Weekly over the years has been the financial services sector. As somebody without a technology background I always enjoyed talking to the technologists behind the stock ...
It's that time again. The World Economic Forum is on in Davos. Once again BG Srinivas, head of Infosys in Europe, has agreed to keep us updated in the blog. Here is his post.Update from Davos By BG ...
Many universities have a license to bring overseas students in on visas. One such university was the London Metropolitan. Last year the university lost its right to recruit students from outside ...
When will banks move off their 40 year-old platforms?Not only is the European economy holding back IT spending in the banking sector but ageing systems mean that a massive proportion of what is ...
I wrote earlier about Vineet Nayar. More specifically the fact that he was stepping aside as CEO at Indian IT services firm HCL. He has transformed the company in his own unique style as has been ...
It's time for system integrators to do some pro bono work.Charities are really struggling in the current economic climate and many of them have more people to help with unemployment on the up and ...
Yet another survey about an IT skills shortage hit my inbox today. It is an article about how the UK will have 33,300 less IT workers than it needs by 2050.These surveys always surprise me because ...
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When Bob offshored his job was he doing anything that different?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 Jan 2013 -
How will HCL cope without its voice?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 Jan 2013 -
US software programmer outsources his own job to China
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 Jan 2013 -
Tata Consultancy services still gets double digit growth
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 Jan 2013 -
Has the rapid rise of China created the perfect environment for offshore IT services?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 15 Jan 2013
I blogged yesterday about the US software development head within a big US organization who had been sending his own work to a Chinese services provide to be done for a fraction of his salary. See ...
HCL's extravagant leader Vineet Nayar is stepping away from the role of CEO. The man that famously puts employees before customers is moving to become joint managing director until July and ...
I was recently asked by the BBC whether IT contractors, known as Ringers, were winning multiple contracts and sub-letting the work to low cost workers. I have also been blogging about outsourcing ...
India's biggest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has managed to generate 14% more in sales in its latest quarter compared to the same period last year. Its sales were worth about ...
The Chinese economy might have slowed a bit during the current economic conditions but it has exploded in recent years.China is the world's powerhouse today and heading towards world ...