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“How can rice production in India, affect wheat output in the US, the shipping industry in Norway and the rubber industry in South America?” This was the opening statement of a commercial aired by T. Rowe Price. It is baffling to think that there is a connection between sectors that seem to be so disconnected from each other. But today, this is most certainly a reality.
Media & Entertainment Industry: An Overview
Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry is in a transformation phase as both old and new continues to coexist. Interactivity, digitization, multiple-platforms, multiple-devices and globalization of services based landscape has remodeled the media and entertainment vertical over the last decade.
Transformational IT in the Cockpit: Passenger Service System (PSS) driving operational efficiency and enhancing customer’s experience in Airline
The potential for Passenger Service Systems (PSS) to add business value to the airlines industry is significant. PSS can enhance the airlines’ asset utilization and customer loyalty and thus directly impact the topline. Recent activity suggests that both large airlines and low cost carriers are considering their PSS options seriously. The PSS market is expected to expand, fuelling more IT innovation in the airline industry.
Canadian Healthcare Industry- Operational Efficiency through IT Transformation – A Perspective
Health care in Canada is delivered through a publicly funded health care system, which is mostly free at the point of use and has most services provided by private entities. The government assures the quality of care through federal standards.
Best Practices in Adopting a Shared Services Model
In their endeavors to become high performing organizations, businesses are pushing all innovation frontiers to do more with less and achieve excellence even in these times of curtailed budgets. Shared services is one such definitive innovative model that many organizations have adopted to beat the ever growing challenges of seamless service delivery, consolidation of distributed accountabilities, progressive efficiency improvements, and fiscal pressures.
Unraveling the Cloud: Architecture, Adoption & Performance Optimization
The cloud has pretty much disrupted the de facto standard: the client/server and enterprise computing models, which displaced the mainframes. As a concept, cloud continues to be defined and redefined.
eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers
The eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers (eSCM-SP) acts as a guide for Sourcing Organizations to manage and reduce their risks and improve their capabilities across the entire sourcing life-cycle. The Model represents the best practices associated with successful sourcing relationships, addressing all the critical issues related to IT-enabled sourcing (eSourcing) for both outsourced and in-sourced (shared services) agreements.
Platform BPO and its Impact on Outsourcing
Platform BPO is also known as Business Platform as a Service (BPaaS) or Business Process as a Utility (BPU) and is essentially an end-to-end process management service hosted on cloud. Platform BPO provides an alternative to legacy outsourcing that has been coming under pressure in the current volatile economic scenario due to its inflexible contracting structure, lack of innovation and want of business value addition. Platform BPO can be viewed as a union of Software as a Service and Infrastructure as a Services for an entire Business Process.
Operational Impact of Cloud Computing on Buyer and Service Provider Organizations
Cloud computing has further reduced the constraints of doing business in this global economy. It has enabled flexibility, agility, mobility and ability to pay for IT services based on use. Stakeholders from the buyer and provider side have to align their operations to reap the benefit of the new reality.
