Five Tips for Vendors
George Atis, Chairman, Outsourcing and Technology practice groups, McMillan Binch LLP
George Atis provides some pointers for vendors that should go a long way towards impressing buyers and expediting the closure of a deal.
Research & Insight
Industry
Manufacturing
As Safe as Fort Knox
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Ruesch specializes in business-to-business cross-border payments, basically supplying various payment instruments and foreign currencies for companies that need to pay their bills in various countries around the world.
Nobody Does It Better
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Quickly growing. Unlimited potential. Unpredictable. Each of these words conveys the business environment in Russia today. Global executives eye developments in the world's largest country and speculate on each aspect of the emerging business scene.
How to Get Ready for HIPAA
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
From the moment of his 1999 signature approving two-thirds of the proposed HIPAA regulations, President Clinton tossed the healthcare industry a hot potato. So now the industry is forced to start changing the way it was doing business.
Business Risk
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
The biggest risks for businesses are they take too long to change, they do the wrong thing or they don't do their job well, says Michel Janssen, chief operating officer of the Outsourcing Center. Outsourcing can mitigate much of that
Defusing Capital Risk
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Last month Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, was giving a presentation to stock analysts when the ground shook. No, it wasn't the power of the newest version of Microsoft Office he was displaying. At that moment Seattle, Washington was
Road Warriors
Chris Pryer, Business Writer
Few assets owned and maintained by the government illicit as much passion from taxpayers as the condition of paved roads. But even as the need for more and wider thoroughfares goes largely ignored due to shrinking budgets and changing political
Achieving High Performance
Chris Pryer, Business Writer
Today roads, and the maintenance they require, are as important as the vehicles that traverse them. And if you've paid any attention to today's news -- or your daily commute to work -- you are probably aware that roads, like
Negotiating the Best Deal For Your Outsourcing Buck
George Atis, Chairman, Outsourcing and Technology practice groups, McMillan Binch LLP
For a company considering an outsourcing transaction - IT or business process outsourcing (BPO) - there are ways to improve the chances of getting the best deal for your outsourcing buck.
Twilight Time
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
The rumormongers and journalists who quickly pen sensational bad-news headlines would have you believe that Exchanges and B2B Marketplaces (last year's newest Internet darlings) all failed and died practically overnight. They pronounce judgments on why it happened: the hype made