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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

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.

How Outsourcing Helped a Utilities Company Save $16 Million While Lowering Security Risk, Improving Client Satisfaction, and Flexibly Working through an Extremely Challenging Acquisition

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

PSEG wanted to increase value on IT spend and tasked CompuCom with providing end-user support services to more than 11,000 users across 85 locations. They've worked flexibly together to ensure their interests remain aligned in developing solutions that increase productivity

How Process Rigor Helped Sun Microsystems Innovate

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

During the transition CSC had to move 55 percent of Sun's application development offshore, hire 450 employees in India during a national boom, and build two data centers in 60 days. Sun Microsystems expected CSC to produce immediate productivity gains

Thought Leadership Marketing: Creating the Edge for Knowledge-Intensive Firms

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

In the current hyper-competitive marketplace, it's hard for companies to describe what makes their business different from their competitors. According to Karthik Nagendra, thought leadership marketing is one way. He describes how companies are using this new branding tool.

How to Manage an Offshore Relationship During a Recession

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Four managerial concerns arise during a recession, which significantly impact the buyer and provider. A Stanford academic shares mitigation techniques.

How to Manage and Mitigate Offshore Risks

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

What are the real risks in offshoring both ITO and BPO work? Professor Ravi Aron, John Hopkins University, says understanding those risks helps buyers set up procedures to make their offshore engagements more successful.

Teaming with the Right Provider Enables Application Developer to be First to Market

Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer

Mitek Systems had a great idea: the applications developer wanted to turn camera phones into scanning devices so customers could make payments and deposit checks. However, the company lacked the internal staff to develop the application which had to work

New Impacts on Outsourcing

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

New influences on outsourcing in 2009 include such factors as SOA, green IT, and the convergence of technology and business processes. Each will impact the value proposition and decision making. Here are the insights that will help to prepare your

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How to Improve Knowledge Management in New Product Development Projects

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

How Outsourcing Helped a Utilities Company Save $16 Million While Lowering Security Risk, Improving Client Satisfaction, and Flexibly Working through an Extremely Challenging Acquisition

Thought Leadership Marketing: Creating the Edge for Knowledge-Intensive Firms

Teaming with the Right Provider Enables Application Developer to be First to Market

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