Tips for Outsourcing HR Functions
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
What's the best way to ensure HR success? A study of Editor's Choice awards nominees finds outsourcing more than one function generates the highest success rates.
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Manufacturing Ties that Bind
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Three manufacturing companies nominated for this year's Outsourcing Awards used outsourcing to update their IT, improve procurement and enter eCommerce in addition to cutting costs.
BPO Experts Comment
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
BPO suppliers and consultants share their real life experiences in the context of the Conference Board study.
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.
A Comparison of Asset Acquisitions and Outsourcing Transactions
Helen Lukajic, Associate, Baker & McKenzie
How does asset acquisition differ from outsourcing? Attorneys at Baker & McKenzie explain the legal nuances.
ASP and ERP: A Great Fit
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Having doubled its size in one year, Rural Cellular Corporation found it had outgrown its human resources and financial services applications. Outsourcing its hosting and applications to an ASP solved the problem.
The Critical Success Factor of Managing Growth
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
BP, one of the world's largest companies, considers it a best practice to outsource as many non-core processes as possible. But outsourcing HR was considered a crucial component of its organizational transformation. Here's the story of how a groundbreaking deal
Co-creating Successful HR Outsourcing
Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
Results from Morgan Stanley's strategic use of outsourcing its HR processes in order to facilitate the massive challenges of a merger with Dean Witter Discover Company turned out be even better than the firm expected. This is the story of
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
Don’t Skip on the Details
Greg Short, Counsel in the Los Angeles office of Shaw Pittman LLP
Don't shortchange the exhibits in your outsourcing contract. They contain the core of your outsourcing agreement, including the price of services and your service level agreements.