Editor's Blog
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Editor’s essay: seeing the bleeding obvious at the bleeding edge
In place of his usual blogs, this week sourcingfocus.com's Editor at Large, Chris Middleton offers his extended thoughts on why so few companies can see the obvious people-problems lurking in our obsession with cutting-edge kit.
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Friday, August 22, 2008
The Philippines: a voice that wants to be heard
The Philippines wants to escape its reputation as simply being the 'call centre country'. What are the challenges? asks Chris Middleton.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Nigeria steps up to the BPO challenge
Nigeria has stated its intention to be a BPO and IT destination of choice. Good news, says Chris Middleon.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Anti-SME bias is a challenge to outsourcers
New research among procurement managers finds outsourcing to be a factor in larger enterprises' bias against SMEs, warns Chris Middleton.
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
NHS appoints new CIO and NPfIT director
Half a year and dozens of problems later, the NHS has finally replaced Richard Granger at the helm of the service's IT. Chris Middleton outlines the challenges.
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Here come the mid-market consultancies
As we predicted, new breeds of consultancy and services company are beginning to emerge from a handful of niche intermediaries in the software as a service (SaaS) space, says Chris Middleton. Is it time for Accenture, Deloitte and others to take notice?
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Friday, August 01, 2008
More clouds in the blue-sky thinking
Chris Middleton is dismayed that once again cloud computing is making the blue sky unnecessarily grey.
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