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Why Shell Created an ‘Ecosystem’ of Three Suppliers When It Outsourced its IT Infrastructure

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Instead of outsourcing its IT infrastructure to just one supplier that takes care of everything, Shell chose to outsource to best-of-breed suppliers. It created an IT ecosystem designed to encourage three suppliers to work together. Read how they made multi-sourcing

How Hot Spot Teams Innovate

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Lynda Gratton at the London Business School has studied teams for the last five years. She explains how to encourage hot spots, a business environment where ideas and excitement ignite teams, who then solve problems and innovate.

Outsourcing Provides a New Method for Customer Service for Online UK Retailer Using Home-Based Agents

Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer

High-level customer service is essential for online. Ramping up and down call center staff due to seasonal fluctuations make it challenging to provide the kind of top-notch customer service this segment expects. Shop Direct tried a new approach for the

How to Improve Knowledge Management in New Product Development Projects

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Companies that hope to capture market share when the economy turns must continue to invest in new product development. Knowledge management in R&D is difficult because the valuable learning is tacit knowledge, which is hard to codify. Professor Keith Goffin

Trends in Outsourced Product Development and Accelerated Time to Market

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

A new, more strategic outsourcing model is necessary for speeding time to market yet also limiting the development cost of new products. It requires a different kind of thinking, communicating, and strategizing. Here's how to leverage this new model for

Enabling Offshored Call Centers to Move Back On Shore

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

In the past, barriers to moving a call center back on shore included the high cost of staffing, training, technology, and terminating a contract early. Organizations can now handle their move back onshore cost-effectively and get up and running again

Mitigating Risk in the Race to the Cloud

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Ed Anderson, CompuCom's new chief strategy officer, shares his insights on who should move to the cloud, when they should move, and why. He also discusses how racing a sailboat and World War II history taught him important leadership skills.

Outsourcing Buyers: Is Now A Good Time to Play Catch-Up?

Linda Tuck Chapman, President, ONTALA Performance Solutions Ltd.

Expert Linda Tuck Chapman says buyers should take a long hard look at their contracts, relationships, and strategies to capitalize on current market opportunities. She lists three things to do now before the market changes.

Morrison & Foerster’s Study: How the Recession Has Changed Outsourcing

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

The common wisdom is outsourcing is counter-cyclical, so it should be going gangbusters in the down economy. But that's not what actually happened. What is going on? The international law firm Morrison & Foerster polled its clients. Partner Christopher Ford

How Two Partners Made the Largest Pan-European Finance and Accounting Engagement Work

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Unilever Europe has 80 factories in 24 countries. The division used 18 ERP systems and hundreds of different finance processes, which led to high costs and varying reliability. IBM turned the organization upside down. This contract is groundbreaking in the

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Why Shell Created an ‘Ecosystem’ of Three Suppliers When It Outsourced its IT Infrastructure

How Hot Spot Teams Innovate

Outsourcing Provides a New Method for Customer Service for Online UK Retailer Using Home-Based Agents

How to Improve Knowledge Management in New Product Development Projects

Outsourcing Buyers: Is Now A Good Time to Play Catch-Up?

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