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HR Trends: ‘Everybody’s Doing It’

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

The Conference Board just completed an extensive study of HR buyers. Great satistics and trenchant observations about what they would do differently next time.

The Art of Fulfillment

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Finding top talent for sales support and fulfillment is always a challenge. Spherion helped the second largest check printing company in the U.S. man its sales resource center. In addition to great customer service, the buyer was finally able to

Colombian Risk

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

BP's motivations for outsourcing were classic, and Getronics has surpassed those needs. Even so, the highly effective risk/reward pricing scheme is a powerful influence on the remarkable success of this relationship.

An Ounce of Prevention

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Burlington Resources, Inc., which is involved in the exploration, development and production of hydrocarbons, ranks first among U.S. independent oil and gas companies, in terms of proved U.S. reserves. It's a company with the diverse global opportunities and financial strength

Barking Up The Right Tree

Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer

National retailers face a challenge when they enter the professional services sector. In the area of medicine, many customers view multiple location clinics with apprehension. They conjure up images of inexperienced, overworked and underpaid interns dispensing medical solutions on an

When Employee Satisfaction is Key

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Deutsche Bank, with commercial banking and investment bank services, aims to be one of the world's leading investment banks. And it depends on its employees to make that happen. Since it relies on employee competence and commitment to excellence in

Can an External Service Provider Really Do This Better Than We Can?

Dr. Wendell Jones

Critics of outsourcing often rest their opinions on assumptions that internal functions should be able to do what outsourcing vendors do if the internal organization applied good management practices and worked smarter and harder. Sometimes this may be true, but

Outsourcing:

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Outsourcing providers offer a richer and more varied career path than companies whose employees work in departments that support the core business. When EDS completes an outsourcing contract, it manages the IT department of the buyer's firm.

Birthing a BPO: The VC Route

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Web-enabled applications have made the BPO offering irresistible. Outsourcing typical BPO functions like finance and accounting or human resources continues to gain popularity because outsourcing helps companies reduce their risk. The outsourcing vendor is an expert in the field, so

An Insider’s View of the Future for ASPs

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Application Service Providers (ASPs) attracted more attention than anything else in outsourcing in 2000. Kirk Krappe, senior vice president of products and markets for Corio, Inc., one of the industry's pioneers and leading ASPs, predicts even more incredible growth in

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