Items tagged with : Microsoft
All in the Game
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #23 Spring 2011 Leading academics charted a path that challenges the conventional defini...
06 April 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Breaking the data protection deadlock
The News of the World phone hacking scandal and Twitter superinjunction furore are the latest headaches for those who seek to outsource and profit fro...
03 August 2011 | Articles, IT, Legal, Functions Other, Europe, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, Other, Global, All Columns,China, the Cloud and building bridges
It’s been busy for the last few weeks as we drew a line under 2010. In Australia we are all starting to drag ourselves back to work after our break (a...
20 January 2011 | Articles, Asia/Pacific, China, Australia, Global, All Columns,Cloud computing: facts and fiction
There is a buzz about the cloud at the moment. Microsoft is pushing its own solution heavily, HP has a solution as does Oracle. Everyone wants to be i...
23 February 2011 | Articles, All Columns,Complementing traditional outsourcing with the emerging cloud computing
In the last article I discussed the emergence of cloud as a key sourcing option. Media has been publishing so much on the cloud that it is often toute...
11 April 2012 | Articles, IT, Global, All Columns,Death by PowerPoint
We all know the drill. It’s a week before the outsourcing or shared services program’s quarterly business review, and all hands are on deck to craft a...
20 October 2010 | Articles, Global, All Columns,Everything old is new again
The "invisible hand of the market" is the term economists use to describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace. The invisible hand ...
22 September 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Asia/Pacific, Australia, All Columns,Head-to-Head: Gary Collins & Tristan Rogers
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #25 Autumn 2011 The rise of the cloud model has created a host of opportunities – and ...
28 September 2011 | Articles, IT, Customer Service, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Highlights from the SIG Global Leadership Summit
And the crowd went wild… or at least it seemed that way when we started playing the theme song from the ever-popular 1960s game show, “The Dating Game...
21 December 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Innovation: a hoary old scab, or something worth talking about?
I have to say, my first reaction when innovation was suggested as a topic worth exploring was, “Oh for goodness sake, why on earth would anyone want t...
17 May 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Innovation: a hoary old scab, or something worth talking about? (Part 3)
So, what does it really take to drive innovation through an outsourcing business? You have to want to. You have to think this is important. And you h...
12 July 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Innovation: a hoary old scab, or something worth talking about? (Part 4)
In this series of articles, I have looked at definitions of innovation and answered the ‘why bother’ question – the answer, as you might suspect, is m...
05 August 2011 | Articles, Global, All Columns, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other,Is ethical guidance for legal outsourcing imminent?
Over the last five years the legal process outsourcing (LPO) industry has begun to take off with global law firms and corporations, including Simmons ...
06 September 2010 | Articles, Legal, Europe, UK, North America / Caribbean, USA, All Columns,It’s Not The Contract…
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #25 Autumn 2011 It's not the contract: it’s the governance that will drive succes...
28 September 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Outsourcing your business IT functions to the cloud
Outsourcing business IT operations to the cloud is a hot topic for companies at present. Many voices are extolling its virtues, with key benefits from...
18 February 2011 | Articles, IT, All Columns,Pharaoh Trade
The most populous Arab country is flexing its outsourcing muscles thanks to a combination of linguistic capability and sheer determination… So how far...
15 December 2010 | Articles, Middle East/Africa, Egypt,Playing to Win
Kate Vitasek and Mike Ledyard on building stronger relationships and gaining greater value from your outsourcing relationships by getting vested...Whi...
06 October 2010 | Articles, Global,Q&A: Ian McDonald, Symbian Fdtn
Ian McDonald is the founder and director of Next Gen IT, a blog focusing on developments and evolution in corporate IT with a particular focus on clou...
02 August 2010 | Articles, IT, Global,Q&A: Matthew Brown, Work4 Labs
Matthew Brown is Director of Business Development for Work4 Labs, providers of the most popular recruiting app on Facebook. In advance of his presenta...
16 June 2011 | Articles, HR, Global, All Columns,Q&A: Norm Judah, Microsoft
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #27 Spring 2012 Two decades into his career with Microsoft, Norm Judah has risen to th...
05 April 2012 | Articles, North America / Caribbean, IT, Functions Other, Global, All Columns, USA,Racking Up The Wins
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #25 Autumn 2011 In the finest tradition of tech giants, Rackspace started life in a ga...
28 September 2011 | Articles, IT, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Ten Ways to Shake Your World
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 It’s long past time for a change in the way outsourcing contr...
29 June 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,The cloud: security risk or risk management opportunity
The word "cloud" has become everyday vernacular in the business community - and even some may say a bit of an overused buzzword. Many don’t ...
01 July 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,The emergence of cloud as a key sourcing option
Cloud sourcing involves sourcing solutions and computing capabilities to run a business through a combination of cloud applications, cloud platforms a...
06 March 2012 | Articles, IT, Global, All Columns,The Legal View: Storm Clouds on the Horizon?
Cloud computing has the potential to revolutionise outsourcing - but along with the advantages of new models might come some pretty hefty legal challe...
15 December 2010 | Articles, IT, Legal, Europe, UK, Global,The Roar of the Crowd
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 Over the past five years “crowdsourced” solutions have started to ...
28 June 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Vesting in practice
By design this column has, for the most part, examined the theories and research of academic and economic luminaries that have helped form the basis o...
08 February 2012 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, Global, All Columns,
Outsource magazine and the ACCA announce an exclusive partnership
