Blogs
Monday, April 30, 2012
Why Businesses should practice K.I.S.S.ing more often
Having recently attended an event and hearing some anecdotes about spotting holes and flaws within businesses and finding solutions to the problems, it occurred to me that quite often these problems need never have existed in the first place. Within all of the impressive business knowledge and jargon, ground breaking technologies, data, statistics and graphs and charts, there were two crucial ingredients missing: logic and a little common sense.
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Cultural Communication
by Jeff Toms, Marketing and Client Services Director, Farnham Castle
Accessing a vast pool of technical skills is one of the main attractions of working with outsourced project teams. However, when it comes to managing teams originating from a different culture, a host of challenges become apparent and effective communication is often one of the key issues.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
A Head Start for RDR
by Tony Collins, Chairman of OPAL
We are now in the midst of the final inexorable slide towards the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR). Despite the slow initial reaction the fact is that from 2013 the sales-driven commission model will no longer exist and all eyes are on the industry, with watchers curious to see exactly what financial advisers and product providers are going to offer in terms of services and charging structures.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Taking your organisation’s IT system to the future with autonomics
by Terry Walby, UK MD of IPsoft
Today we live in a technology dependent world with a global annual spend on IT and communications reaching a massive £1.9 trillion. IT systems are relied on heavily to carry out a range of tasks from the rudimentary to the most critical, and glitches in the system can result in a company operations coming to a standstill
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Implementing Business intelligence
by Sanjiv Gossain, SVP and Managing Director - Telecoms and Media Business Unit. Head of UK & Ireland, Cognizant
The volume and complexity of information coming into organisations has increased dramatically in recent years, but without the right tools in place to deal with this influx, it can become more of a hindrance than a help.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Outsourcing Risks – a re-considered viewpoint.
by Ramesh Dorairaj, Vice President of IT and product engineering services company MindTree Ltd
In a flattened world, companies that effectively leverage the global delivery model stand to gain in several areas, ranging from cost advantages to access to talent to the ability to innovate rapidly.
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Offshoring - SMEs not feeling the full benefit
by Martyn Hart, Chairman of the National Outsourcing Association
Local-sourcing and nearshoring is your best outsourcing option right now
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Barcelona. A beautiful place to do business
by Iain Levein, Group Director of Comet Global Consulting
“Barcelona… I had this perfect dream.” So sang Freddie Mercury, and when Freddie sang people listened. Conjuring up romantic visions of this historic city, his song was an epic, memorable one.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Do we need an innovation framework?
by sourcingfocus.com
Modern outsourcing relationships now offer and deliver much more than just cost savings. Businesses are often transformed through innovation to achieve far greater efficiency and productivity.
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EDI vs Digital Signatures - Complexity
by Nigel Taylor, Head of e-Invoicing, GXS
Nigel Taylor of GXS examines the differing levels of complexity involved in setting up EDI and digital signatures
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Outsourcing dictation has its benefits
by Maxine Park, DictateNow
Maxine Park of DictateNow discusses the use of outsourcing in transcription services
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
‘I wanna be close to you’ - The benefits of proximity to outsourcing
by Rupert Hodgson, editorial staff, sourcingfocus.com
I’m trying to get hold of the company website designer to upload content, I suddenly realise that for my Sri Lankan based developer its 4am. From communicating with companies in different time zones to organising meetings with far off business partners, distance in many circumstances hinders cooperation.
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The Future of the Chief Information Officer
by Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell Services
Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell Services, discusses the changing role of the CIO
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
Compliance and Audibility
by Nigel Taylor, Head of e-Invoicing, GXS
Electronic data interchange (EDI) has been the mainstay of e-Invoicing, followed more recently by digital signatures, providing the means to exchange compliant electronic invoices. It can be difficult for companies to decide which of the two is best for their company. In this series of blogs I will examine the pros and cons of each method of e-Invoicing within commonly contested categories.
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The value of nearshoring :A near thing
by Iain Levein, Group Director of Comet Global Consulting
Close is good. Close is a trusted friend, a much-loved relative, a colleague-turned-confidante. It’s a favourite restaurant you walk to every week, a next-door neighbour who feeds your cat. So why when it comes to business do so many organisations see distance as a goal? Why do they look to the far corners of the world when the answers may be much closer to home? Why do we offshore when we could near shore?
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Monday, April 02, 2012
Outsourcing L&D – The importance of a business partnership
by Rachel Kay, Business Development Director, Thales Training & Consultancy
In the past few years, outsourcing elements of Learning & Development (L&D) has become increasingly popular due to a large number of organisations experiencing static training budgets. According to recent research by the Learning & Performance Institute (LPI), 44 per cent of organisations surveyed expect their L&D budgets to remain the same in 2012. Externalised L&D offers businesses the opportunity to save valuable time, whilst maximising their investment.
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