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A glimpse of the future for CIOs
There are those that try to predict it; those that dread it and those that revel in it but you can’t deny that it’s going to happen in some way shape ...
27 May 2011 | Articles, IT, 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,Clouding your business with data protection issues? (Part 2)
In Part One of this article, we looked at current data protection issues inherent within cloud computing. Here, we look at the trend towards cloud usa...
16 February 2012 | Articles, IT, Legal, Europe, UK, Global, All Columns,Dog food and steaks: how authenticity helps validate technology solutions
Recently I was heavily involved with organising an online event called IBF 24. This was all about intranets. Lots and lots of intranets – in fact 24 h...
22 June 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, 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,Here comes the competition
I believe crowdsourcing as both a term and as a concept has started to filter into the mainstream. As I wrote in an article for Outsource early this y...
25 November 2011 | Functions Other, Procurement, Articles, Global, All Columns,Outsourcing and how mobile communications are changing the way we choose to work
There is a generation that run their lives on smartphones or iPads. Paper is never considered, people are online all the time; they share their work a...
19 August 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Outsourcing IT Q&A: what is IPv6 and why does my business need to know about it?
You have probably seen the stories in the national press recently forewarning of an impending collapse of the internet. These articles claim that the ...
01 April 2011 | Articles, IT, Europe, North America / Caribbean, Latin America, Middle East/Africa, South/Central Asia, Asia/Pacific, Global, All Columns,Paperless Money
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #23 Spring 2011 One of the most prominent areas of growth in the global outsourcing spac...
06 April 2011 | Articles, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,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,Some none too subtle shifts in the commerce of outsourcing
Transformational change always takes longer than the early adopters believe is either likely or reasonable – but if the drivers for the change are rea...
11 October 2010 | Global, UK, Articles, 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,Thought leadership IS brand in the outsourcing industry
Ever hear about the International Index of Thought Leadership? It asks “opinion formers” in the U.S. and the UK to rank companies based upon character...
08 December 2010 | Articles, Global, All Columns,Umair Haque: The art of being disruptive and constructive
Do you suspect that there's something wrong or at least severely amiss with modern capitalism, and by extension the way we outsource, think about...
13 October 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,
Outsource magazine and the ACCA announce an exclusive partnership
