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Monday, October 31, 2011
What Do Customers Want - Savings or Service?
by Laurence Moran – UK Services and Account Director for NAGE
In the current economic climate, organisations are looking to their procurement departments and their supplier partners to deliver more in terms of real, tangible bottom line cost savings.
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What is a Total Facilities Management Solution?
by Matt Denham – Trading Director Corporate Assets
TFM is the latest TLA (Three Letter Acronym) to be heard in the corridors of purchasing offices up and down the country. But what is TFM?
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Thoughts on Choosing Your Cloud Provider
by Roger Nolan, CTO, OnApp
Thoughts on choosing your cloud provider
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Cop Shop Outsourcing Loophole Must Go
by Martyn Hart, Chairman NOA
It seems quite simply absurd that the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) does not have jurisdiction over outsourced workers that guard detainees in police stations.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Questioning Innovation
by Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell Services
Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell Services, touches on some of the key questions companies should ask as they position themselves for total global competition in the 21st century and how the current generation of innovation has transformed business models and strategies.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Moving Up the Quality Ladder – Premium Branded IT Services
by Colin Privett, Managing Director, CAST
There was a time when Western car manufacturers sneered at the quality of Japanese manufacturing. Fast forward twenty years, the US and UK car industries have been decimated and luxury Japanese car brands like Infiniti and Lexus have the last remaining high-end Western marques in their sights.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Outsourcing and the Changing Role of the HR Profession
by Sue Brooks, Managing Director, Ochre House.
Last month we brought together key thinkers in the HR profession for our annual HR Directors symposium, Redefining Business Value Through a Talent Centric Approach, and the debate certainly raised a few issues.
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Friday, October 14, 2011
Outsourcing in the Public Sector: Cost vs Quality
by Chris Price Director of Public Sector & SIS
Outsourcing, like spending, will more than likely always be an area that comes under scrutiny in the public sector. But with increasing areas of the public sector now being outsourced, it is probably no surprise that the question on everyone’s lips is – how to get the best out of this strategy?
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Kick-starting the Economy
by Martyn Hart, Chairman NOA
Unemployment stands at 2.57 million, and it would seem that the government has no clear plan on how to get people back to work.
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How do you choose between public, private and hybrid cloud?
by Roger Nolan, CTO, OnApp
In our last blog we tried to give a simple explanation of cloud computing and the three basic types of cloud service: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
This time we’ll look at the three main types of cloud - public, private and hybrid - and how you choose between them.
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Financial Services Firms Need to Look Beyond the Current Economic Crisis
by Tony Collins, CEO, OPAL, the financial outsourcing company http://www.opal-uk.com
The global economic downturn continues to dominate the headlines, and the doom and gloom reported by the media seems to be getting doomier and gloomier by the day.
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Thursday, October 06, 2011
Tech City Hasn’t a Hope in Hell
by Dominic Monkhouse, MD PEER1 Hosing UK& Ireland
Tech city will have absolutely no impact what so ever. It’s embarrassing to think that our answer to Silicon Valley is a cluster of small technology companies in the east of London which have so far done little more than stress testing for the Olympics.
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Improving Professional HR Standards in the Industry and Minimising Risks
by Shirley Barnes, Client Relationship Director, Dinamiks Limited
Improving professional HR standards in the industry – and minimising risks – can happen through talent management and standards compliance
It might even help when pitching for business or making a sale.
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