News for Manufacturing & Construction
Thursday, May 17, 2012
General Motors saves 2,100 jobs at UK Vauxhall factory
GM will save 2,100 jobs and create hundreds more after the company announced that it has chosen Ellesmere Port car factory to create the next-generation Astra.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
WNS and GT Nexusenter strategic partnership
WNS (Holdings) Limited has announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with GT Nexus to deliver platform-based BPO services and solutions to the Shipping and Logistics industry.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
MPs warn against carbon footprint of outsourcing
According to MPs the level of carbon emissions from goods imported and consumed within the UK is rising, whilst domestic levels of emissions are declining
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Rolls Royce awards Capgemini IT contract
Rolls Royce has awarded a three-year outsourcing contract to Capgemini. Capgemini will work with Rolls Royce to overlook the IT outsourcing provided by a number of vendors, ensuring that they deliver the best possible services in over 50 countries.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Outsourcing Yearbook eBook launched
sourcingfocus.com is proud to announce the launch of The Outsourcing Yearbook 2012.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
CIO s Role to be Short Lived, say CFOs
43% of senior finance professionals in the UK believe that the CIO role will merge with the CFO role, says a study by IT services provider Getronics.
17% of the finance professionals thought that the CIO role would disappear altogether, in the wake of the trend that 77% of CFOs have claimed greater responsibility for IT decisions in the last 12-24 months.
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Russia’s answer to Silcone Valley planned
Viktor Vekselberg, one of Russia’s richest men, is spearheading an initiative to create a Russian rival to Silicone Valley or the UK’s own Tech City.
Skolkovo Research and Business Park, expected to cost 6bn, will be used to create an innovation cluster of a university, a research park and a city housing 35,000. It will be Russia’s first PPP (private public partnership) concerning education and enterprise. Construction has already started; the first students are expected in 2014.
Multi-billionaire Vekselberg will bring a delegation of executives to the UK next week, in the hope of attracting more international companies and institutions to join the project.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
CSC Snap up £500m BAE Contract Extension
Defence giant BAE Systems has inked a 5-year £511m ($800m) deal with its long term partner CSC, that covers a full range of IT services such as support BAE's service desk, physical and virtual servers, mainframe, storage and networking. The deal also features project work and application support.
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
Thorntons in line from £2m savings from outsourcing
UK chocolate brand Thorntons has stated that outsourcing its IT and other activates will help deliver an annual cost saving of £2 million.
“This, together with the ongoing benefits of our procurement review and the recent restructuring of our head office cost base, should deliver a full-year benefit of £2 million that will flow through in full in the 2012/13 financial year,” said a Thorntons spokesperson.
HP provides Thorntons end-to-end management and support for IT, networking and applications.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
BAE Systems says cloak not just for Klingons
BAE Systems has announced it has developed a Star Trek-esque invisibility cloak that makes tanks invisible to the enemy.
The invisibility cloak, called Adaptiv uses on board thermal cameras to record the tanks surroundings. It then relays the information to the external cloak, which is made up of hexagonal pixels that can change temperature very quickly. This renders the tank invisible to infra-red sensors at makes them extremely difficult to detect at night.
The technology also has the capability can also make tanks look like a cow.
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