•Offshoring Development - Testing the Water
Companies the UK over have been flocking in their droves to offshore processes such as IT services provision, call centre work and HR administration. From India to China, the Philippines to Mauritius, it seems that every country in the developing world has an offshoring proposition to tempt UK and European countries to engage with foreign suppliers. Offshore software development is another area that is taking off. Rather than resourcing a development capability in house, or outsourcing it to a...
•Outsourcing -Source of Contention
Outsourcing can save companies a fortune – but its success depends on testing procedures.
In the UK, the financial services industry has always been leagues ahead in outsourcing and offshoring. Most of the mega deals at the start of the outsourcing revolution involved financial services companies. Realising the benefits of outsourcing IT and processes such as human resources and finance, the investment bank community has began to outsource more critical functions.
For example, last year...
•Outsourcing – Testing Times
With the proliferation of outsourcing, there is little doubt that it has become the business byword of the last few years. Organisations of all sizes are realising the benefits of using suppliers to handle processes such as technology, HR, finance and procurement. Lured by the cost savings and the ability to harness external expertise much more economically than providing that experience in-house, more and more organisations believe outsourcing to be the cure all for business ills.
However,...
•Will IT Skills make People Skills Extinct?
The last two decades have seen IT become an integral part of the workplace. The internet explosion has given us access to more information than previous generations had access to in entire lifetimes. The internet also gave birth to what is now the most used means of communication in the modern workplace - email. In a mere twenty or so years, email has gone from being a computer company exclusive to communication tool no modern corporation would be without. As a result, the way we communicate...
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