Blogs
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Oh my Darling… clandestine?
The credit crunch and economic downturn will call outsourcing into question in the coming months. How will the industry respond? And why is Alistair Darling making banking more secretive?
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Fortune favours the fearful
The US is starting to feel the pinch as the new economic superpowers threaten its global economic domination. But is a frightened America really curled up like a foetus, as Fortune magazine claims?
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2008: Playing the risk game – HR
As the responsibility of an HRO provider to deliver a value-add service increases, professionals within the HR industry are facing a period of self-examination
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Data security: the Axis of People
Defence secretary Des Brown's appearance in the House of Commons today was a grim, if instructive affair. Security is rarely about defence-grade encryption and sexy IT. Indeed, those are the things most likely to neglect the little guy.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Brown and Bush: Editor’s comment
Outsourcing professionals witnessed two very different approaches to the economic winter that both the US and UK economies may be entering - one demonstrating the growing influence of a dynamic outsourcing industry.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Only connect…
Chris Middleton bemoans the government's failure to manage large-scale public technology projects.... and takes them to task for their implicit commercialisation of personal data.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
The risks of the quick fix
Recent studies by Gartner Group and EquaTerra into the state of the outsourcing market show our industry showing greater maturity than ever before, but also some positive underlying trends that could be threatened should 2008 suffer the economic cold snap that many fear.
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Thursday, January 03, 2008
The Politics of Fear: The year ahead
There’s no doubt this is an exciting time for our industry, but also a challenging, dangerous one as economic uncertainty in the US, Western Europe, and parts of Asia promises hard quarters for some, and a soft landing for others.
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Welcome to your portal
Welcome to sourcingfocus.com, the new community portal for the outsourcing industry, published in association with the National Outsourcing Association (NOA).
On this site in the coming weeks, months and years you will find all the professional news, analysis and features you would expect, together with opinion pieces by some of our industry’s leading spokespeople, senior executives, analysts, and industry figureheads.
Not only that, but there will be both a vertical and a horizontal industry focus and a host of other unique content that will be unveiled covering every part of the globe, every industry sector and every market within this burgeoning industry.
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Security is about people, not technology
Chris Middleton examines how outsourcing moves from the red-letter year that was 2007, into a precarious 2008...
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