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Investigating Outsourcing
An insider\'s view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.
July 2013
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National Outsourcing Association to address negative perception
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 31 Jul 2013 -
NHS 111 chaos is a warning to organisations outsourcing
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Jul 2013 -
Outgoing T-Systems UK head reflects on 20 years in a changing industry
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Jul 2013
I blogged yesterday about some troubled outsourcing contracts tahtb have hit the news recently. They paint a negative picture of outsourcing.These included NHS Direct's plan to pull out in its ...
Outsourcing is so well accepted by businesses and government today that the risk associated with handing an important task to a third party is one that organisations are willing to take in their ...
Sam Kingston is leaving his role as UK head at Deutsche Telekom owned IT services company T-Systems after a five year spell. He is currently weighing up an alternative international role at ...
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Capita denies claim that it turned down Acas help over strike - was it a hoax?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Jul 2013 -
Could NHS budget cuts be a boost to IT services sector?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 24 Jul 2013 -
L&T Infotech - Another Indian heritage supplier setting its sights on UK growth
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Jul 2013 -
Will Post Office face legal action if people were wrongly imprisoned and fined over Horizon system?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 09 Jul 2013 -
If you are not mid-way through Sepa compliance you are too late and need outsourcing back-up
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 05 Jul 2013 -
The 2013 golf Open Championship has already been held in Romania this year
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 05 Jul 2013 -
Small suppliers called on again to vent their frustration with its procurement
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 04 Jul 2013
According to a union contact, employee relations organisation Acas offered to come into negotiations between Capita and union Unite and its members to prevent a strike today in Capita's IT services ...
Providing bosses at IT service providers don't get ill and require NHS treatment the cuts and efficiency drive in the NHS might be good for them. IT analyst company Ovum is talking about the ...
In this blog I regularly write about the meetings I have with suppliers. I have recently written a few articles about some of the less well known suppliers from India which are focused on growth in ...
Computer Weekly has been following the plight of Sub-Postmasters that allege they have been falsely accused and found guilty of false accounting. Some have even been sent to prison, others have ...
The deadline for businesses in Europe to be able to make and take payments that are compliant with Sepa, the Single European Payments Area, is six months away. But projects to migrate systems to ...
I wrote an article this week about the organisers of The Open Championship getting the event's website ready for four days of heavy traffic. The event is being held in Muirfield this month and the ...
An investigation into Government IT procurement is being conducted by the Office of Fair Trading. This is an attempt to identify some of the reasons why government IT supplies is still dominated by ...
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TCS India passport project, an example for UK public sector as IT becomes transformational
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 03 Jul 2013 -
Can Service Integration help CIOs add business value?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 02 Jul 2013 -
IT outsourcing has changed, but have you?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 01 Jul 2013 -
Cloud saved Carbon Trust when IT service providers couldn't
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 01 Jul 2013
As part of my job I commission and write articles for our Indian websites, Theses are searchcio.in, searchbusinessintelligence.in, searchsecurity.in and searchdatacenter.in.Yesterday as I was doing ...
Service integration is a hot topic in outsourcing at the moment. Although the process of managing multiple suppliers has been around for years, it has been completed in-house. Today with the ...
I wrote a feature about the challenges facing IT departments when they are outsourcing today.Here it is:Once upon a time, IT outsourcing was a choice between doing it or not, but with maturing ...
When the Carbon Trust was faced with a huge IT budget cut it went to its IT outsourcing partners for help. But they couldn't help so it moved just about everything to the cloud.Mike Proudlock, IS ...