Governance: practical steps to making it work

Profit warnings are nothing new to the outsourcing industry. Looking at the end of Q1 2013, FTSE support services and FTSE software and computer services companies are again the sectors reporting the highest number of profit warnings. With the sourcing … Read More

Contract negotiation: better the devil you know?

As companies approach the end of contract with an incumbent supplier, they must decide if it is in their best interest to renew or cast a wider net.

Alsbridge research and experience suggests that if a client is broadly satisfied, … Read More

Box-it

Box-it is a market leader and innovator within the Document Management arena.  Service proposition covers all areas of document management to include secure document storage through 14 locations across the UK and Ireland, together with two large digital processing centres … Read More

So What Now?

This article originally appeared in Outsource magazine Issue #31 Spring 2013.

Over the past two articles in this series [see Part 1 here and Part 2 here], we have considered the history of outsourcing and its current state. Now, to complete … Read More

Dead and Buried?

There has been much talk on the wires recently about the alleged “death of outsourcing”.  Many of the reasons given are simply to promote someone’s new “outsourcing paradigm”, from which you can assume that it is still outsourcing but with … Read More

The Legal View: Change – As Good as a Rest?

This article originally appeared in Outsource magazine Issue #31 Spring 2013.

The technology sector is continually changing as new companies emerge and existing companies merge. In the last few years Cisco Systems acquired NDS Group, SAP acquired Ariba and Hewlett-Packard announced … Read More

Breaking the Outsourcing Conundrum

This article was co-authored by Rob Urbanowicz, Principal and Owner of The Geehan Group, and originally appeared in Outsource magazine Issue #31 Spring 2013.

As the outsourcing market has matured over the last 15 years, many service providers have developed capabilities … Read More

People Power

This article was co-authored with Mike Dodd, PA Consulting Group, and originally appeared in Outsource magazine Issue #31 Spring 2013.

It seems likely that the pace of public sector outsourcing is going to continue to increase as central and local government … Read More

Back From The Summit

This article originally appeared in Outsource magazine Issue #31 Spring 2013.

Towards the end of last year, Outsource partnered with our good friends at Forum Events to promote the latter’s Outsourcing Partnership Summit, and I was honoured to be invited to chair … Read More

Losing The Race Before You Put Your Trainers On

This article originally appeared in Outsource magazine Issue #31 Spring 2013.

Business value is a lot of rubbish, not because it isn’t important but because the means of achieving value is grossly abused. Without this keystone to a successful service relationship … Read More