Service Level Agreements (SLA) insights & best practices

Trends in Outsourcing to Enable Client Organizations to Innovate in Their Businesses

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Nearly everyone is talking about innovation in outsourcing. In this article, experts share their insights on the hindrances and best practices surrounding innovation objectives.

2007’s Landmark Events and What They Auger for 2008

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

What a year! Wipro set up shop in the United States. This year's subprime mortgage mess will actually help outsourcing next year. And non-traditional suppliers won some big outsourcing deals. Here's what it all means and a guess at how

BPO Innovation: It’s the Technology, Stupid!

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Innovation is outsourcing's new buzz word. However, it's a lot easier to talk about innovation than do it. SAP's Gianni Giacomelli discusses the techniques that work and the traps to avoid.

How a Swiss Company Selected Its Offshore Location

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Telekurs Financial, which provides real-time data to the world's largest banks, was still entering data manually. It clearly needed to offshore to speed up and improve the process. But where should it go? This is its story.

OMFN Knew It Selected the Right Supplier When Perot Systems Expertly Handled a Deluge of Volume During Migration

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Old Mutual had earned the unhappy moniker: the worst in the industry. It outsourced to become competitive. During the first two migrations, events conspired to triple volume. Read how the two partners learned to work together under the crushing volumes.

RX for Healthcare Outsourcing Success: Abandon Traditional Roles

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

No one wants to wait three months to be paid. The Department of Surgery outsourced its bill collection, which cut day in accounts receivable from 94 to 50. But the change wasn't easy; the two partners had to change how

Bharti Airtel, Nortel Innovate a Utility Computing Model to Influence Consumer Behavior

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Bharti Airtel is a fast-growing Indian telco. It felt labor costs in India were too expensive. It wanted to solve customer care issues at the machine. So it offshored its solution--to North America. The Indian company selected Nortel for its

The Story of a Turnaround: Before Outsourcing, a Key Division Struggled; Today It Excels

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Service was so poor with Aon's first outsourcing supplier that it was losing customers. Then it switched to Alfinanz, which had both IT and industry experience. Now Aon is so successful it is challenging its biggest competitors and winning most

ACS Helps a Louisiana Agency Weather the Storm

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

ACS collects child support payments for the state, which increased scope and added customer care. Soon after that transition, Hurricane Katrina hit. ACS went into overdrive to get child support payments to parents, many of whom had fled the state.

An Offshore Pioneer Shares Its Recipe for Long-Term Success

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

This was one of the first North American offshoring relationships. Nortel outsourced to India in 1991 because it couldn't find enough employees with the specialized knowledge it needed. At same time, Wipro wanted to expand beyond India. The timing was

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