The sourcing model paradox
Here’s a paradox for you: even though service providers have put more focus on simplifying and streamlining their IT environments, why are they actually working with more external IT services vendors...
View ArticleSoftware Audits – Are you Ready?
Software audits are increasingly common and represent a significant and growing risk for business enterprises. Violations of licensing and compliance terms can generate hundreds of millions of...
View ArticleHow to Build a VMO: Lessons Learned and Keys to Success
Executives today manage increasingly complex contracts and service delivery structures, and must meet increasingly high expectations regarding business value, continuous improvement and compliance...
View ArticleWork Smarter – Disruptive Technologies Transform Procurement Skill Sets
As traditional sourcing techniques become increasingly outdated, procurement professionals must acquire new competencies to truly enable differentiation for their clients. Specifically, technology...
View ArticleConsolidation and Competition: European Telecom Market Trends and Carrier...
The European telecoms landscape is undergoing seismic changes that have a significant impact on the IT and communications strategies of enterprise buyers. Technology innovation is enabling higher...
View ArticleSIG (Sourcing Industry Group) Expands Global Footprint with Acquisition of...
Press release: Jacksonville, Fla. (PRWEB) January 12, 2016 SIG, the premier membership organization for sourcing, procurement and outsourcing executives, today announces the acquisition of Outsource...
View ArticleIdeas to energise your outsourced workplace
An energised workforce is your most important sustainable competitive advantage. Workplace America 2016, TalentKeepers’ 12th annual report, illustrates key employee engagement and retention trends...
View ArticleQ&A: Atul Vashistha, NeoGroup
Atul Vashistha is the CEO and chairman of global services and sourcing advisory firm NeoGroup, as well as the former (as of last month) chairman of the Nearshore Executive Alliance (NEA). Continuing...
View ArticleUS candidates return to familiar outsourcing arguments
For as long as I can remember, arguments about outsourcing have played a part in the US election cycle. In the final stages of the presidential election the two candidates will make promises they can’t...
View ArticleBeverage companies get active in reducing their supply chain carbon footprint
Carbon footprint reduction is a major focus of the beverage industry. The major challenge for this industry is to reduce the carbon footprint while still increasing production in this growing sector....
View ArticleEmerging market drivers are creating a renaissance in nearshoring tech...
Nearshoring as a way to outsource critical business processes and product development is nothing new to key markets such as software engineering, yet emerging technology, market trends and government...
View ArticleHow to minimise massive turnover of IT professionals
The IT and tech sectors have long suffered from an epidemic of high turnover rates, shared by businesses that are great at acquiring, but terrible at retaining, these professionals. Prior research has...
View ArticleQ&A: Alejandro Camino, Softtek
Alejandro – Alex – Camino is the CMO of Mexico-based IT provider Softtek, and a prominent and increasingly influential thought leader in the Western Hemisphere’s nearshore sector (including playing a...
View ArticleThe X-factor for successful offshore delivery
Over the last two decades I have had the opportunity to work with some of the largest (as well as mid-sized) enterprises who had outsourced their IT work to offshore based teams. The offshore teams...
View ArticleDoes US outsourcing have a Mickey Mouse future?
Ever since the 2016 elections, America’s outsourced manufacturing has consistently been front-page news. Now news stories are shifting towards the larger world of foreign imports, rather than just...
View ArticleQ&A: Marcos Jimenez, Softtek North America
Marcos Jimenez is the CEO of the North American division of Softtek, a global IT provider and a leading player in Western Hemisphere nearshoring. We got together with Marcos recently to get his...
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