Outsourcing

Can sales outsourcing grow Wisconsin biotechs?

In the past, NeoClone, a seven-year-old manufacturer of monoclonal antibodies, has grown its revenues and built a customer base organic...

IT outsourcing according to Tom Koulopoulos, part 2

After his keynote at the WTN: You have spoken about outsourcing as a way of distributing the risk of development to other organizations. But does...

IT outsourcing according to Tom Koulopoulos, part 1

Global consultant Tom Koulopoulos said at the this month that companies should identify information technology work they do that does not support their core competency and push it outside of the organization. As you might expect, a discussion of outsourcing versus doing work in house raises a lot of questions, so WTN followed up wit...

Is outsourcing reaching its limits or simply pausing for breath? - Part II

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Is outsourcing reaching its limits or simply pausing for breath?

Outsourcing is a management tool that is taking the business world by storm, or so it would seem from reading much of the dedicated coverage of outsourcing topics featured in business and IT publications and websites. Thus it was very surprising to me to come across two recently released studies on outsourcing published by leading consulting firms - Deloitte Consul...

Consider the legal issues before outsourcing offshore

Although outsourcing has been utilized by thousands of U.S. companies since the 1970s, it has become an increasingly controversial topic. In fact, lawmakers in more than 35 states have introduced legislation restricting outsourcing just as its popularity among corporations as an effective cost-cutting tool has begun to soar. Early in its growth outsourcing did not u...

IT outsourcing remains on the horizon as companies focus on core business

, an IT company in Oconomowoc, said CIOs will have to work to stay involved with the business side of their companies on decisions o...

Symphony Data merges with Atlanta outsourcing company

Madison-based Symphony Data Corp. has merged with STI Knowledge, an Atlanta-based provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) services.Symphony Data is a BPO company with offices in Norristown, Pennsylvania; Scottsdale, Arizona; and Hyderabad, India. Symphony Data was spun off from its parent Symphony Corp. Symphony Data is a provider of healthcare administrative and BPO services, wit...

Tech Digest: network outsourcing; UW astronomy; Merge acquisition

has renewed through 2010 its deal to buy...

Outsourcing fills gaps and drives U.S. back toward innovation

Protesters during the industrial age screamed against rapid automation as a serious threat to jobs and a possible destruction of society. They later protested...

HR outsourcingbreakfast of champions or chumps?

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Outsourcing: Net gain or shifting the pain?

This weekend I attended a talk at my local elementary school given by Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline and a prominent proponent of systems thinking. Systems thinking is a conceptual framework, body of knowledge and tool set developed over the past fifty years, to train people to see the big picture to make patterns and interrelationships clearer, and to help see how to make systemati...

The Great Offshore Outsourcing Debate

A few weeks ago, I referred to offshore outsourcing as an issue du jour. I stand corrected. Its rapidly becoming an issue de lannee (an election year at that for America) due to slow job growth and increasing questions about the economic future of the U.S. Prominent voices along every point of the political spectrum from the contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination to the Bush Admini...

Offshore outsourcing affects American workers

There has been so much media attention focused on the effects of outsourcing technology and offshore manufacturing that its finally shedding some light on the issue. Whatever the product, there is an effort to ship it outside America to cheaper labor. The effects of this are hurting many aspects of Americans industrial and personal lives. It doesnt matter what you are making, whether you manufact...

Offshore Outsourcing: On Target or Off Base?

Im not a big Bob Dylan fan, but lately I cant help thinking of the second verse from Dylans lyrics come to mind whenever the media starts hyping yet another new business imperative. In the early 1990s busin...

Overseas Outsourcing Brews Backlash

Recent reports indicate a domestic backlash is brewing against firms who outsource IT services to foreign-based companies. Two recent examples took place in late November, when Indiana's governor cancelled a $15.2 million contract with a company in India to upgrade the state's unemployment claims processing system (subsequently granting it to an Indiana-based company). And Dell announced it would...

Outsourcing Offshore - Wisconsin Companies Sending Work Abroad

Software Programmer U.S.: $66,100 India: $10,000 IT Manager U.S: $55,000 India: $8,500 Accountant U.S.: $41,000 India: $5,000 Not long ago, jobs leaving the United States were almost solely in the manuf...