Investigating Outsourcing

September 2013

• IT marriage counselling to ensure outsourcing contracts don't lead to divorce

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Sep 2013

I have written extensively about the large amount of contract renegotiations going on at the moment. Keeping suppliers and customers happy at the same time is difficult. Particularly when the ...

• Will Labour be able to make businesses create an apprentice for every job done by a non-EU citizen?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Sep 2013

If Labour is elected at the next election and follows through with an idea to change procurement rules to force businesses to create an apprentice for every job done by a migrant worker it could ...

• Could see the return of the £1 pom if offshoring to India continues as Australia seeks UK skills?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Sep 2013

I recently wrote an article about the high demand for UK IT professionals on Australia.The Emigration Group said there is high-demand for IT professionals at all levels across Australian cities ...

• Is Eastern Europe India's biggest threat for IT outsourcing?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 19 Sep 2013

I received a report from Marrable Services all about weighing up whether to offshore to places like India or nearshore to regions such as Eastern Europe. The full report is below after a little ...

• Do UK unions welcome member transfers to growing companies such as Huawei?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 18 Sep 2013

I was recently at a meeting with Huawei's head of managed services. Leroy Blimegger, global head of managed services at Huawei, was telling me all about the company's growing UK managed services ...

• Dell shareholders decide whether to go private as Dell Services EMEA talks strategy

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 12 Sep 2013

As we all know Michael Dell wants to take the company private so he can re-focus the business away from selling PCs to services. With commoditisation, intense competition and falling margins the ...

• Why should a business outsource mobility projects?

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 04 Sep 2013

Mobile is becoming an increasingly important way of working as well as a critical channel to customers. Many businesses will lack the knowledge required to implement mobile technologies and ...

• Offshoring decimating European corporate IT skills base

  Karl Flinders - Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 03 Sep 2013

I wrote an article last week about some research written by the Hackett Group about how a combination of factors including offshoring IT jobs to low cost regions is decimating the European IT ...