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Africa on the move – Investment in ICT is catalyzing economic growth
For more than a decade, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has played a significant role in both economic growth and poverty reduction. ICT increases efficiency, provides access to new markets and services, creates new opportunities for income generation and gives economically handicapped people an opportunity for sustainable employment.
Strategic Sourcing of IT Services by the US Government - Budgets and Trends
Strategic Sourcing, largely beneficial, has always evoked cautionary reactions from the US Government and public at large. Currently US Government is caught between cutting budget spends and gaining greater efficiencies for public service. Strategic sourcing can not only help the US Government deliver better public services but also gain significant cost savings year on year. This paper attempts at breaking the taboo of outsourcing by showing that if properly managed, strategic sourcing can result in great cost savings while increasing cost and process efficiencies.
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.
Social Media: Is it relevant for IT Outsourcing Industry
Internet and Information Technology, with the advent of social media, has brought in revolutionary changes in the way individuals and firms interact and transact commerce. The IT outsourcing industry has been taking steps to leverage the immense potential of social media to connect potentials buyers and influence and the contribution it makes to enhance the brand value of the service provider.
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.
Trends Likely to Impact Global Sourcing in 2013
Welcome 2013, a year we anticipate positive change in market dynamics of the global sourcing industry as the cloud of uncertainty around US Presidential Elections disperses, the US economy avoids the "fiscal cliff" and large number of outsourcing contracts come up for renewal and negotiations. While 2012 witnessed market uncertainties amid global financial crisis, this year we expect global investments to show an upward trend.
Incentives & Opportunities for Scaling the "Impact Sourcing" Sector
For more than a decade, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has played a significant role in both economic growth and poverty reduction. ICT increases efficiency, provides access to new markets and services, creates new opportunities for income generation and gives economically handicapped people an opportunity for sustainable employment.
Proactive Players will benefit from Cloud Computing
Recent trends show that transition to a Cloud environment will eventually benefit the outsourcing industry. Both, Buyers and Providers of Outsourcing services will discover tremendous benefits. This article by Avasant Partner, Anupam Govil is featured in the digital issue of "Source Cloud - Guide to the impact of cloud computing on global sourcing of services" by Global Services Media in November 2012 issue.
Nearshore Call Centers: What You Need to Know
The Philippines in recent years became the top offshore destination for call centers, overtaking former leader India.
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.
Africa Rising - Outsourcing Juggernaut set Sails
Africa has emerged as a favored destination for Outsourcing in the past few years. The overall development of Infrastructure, Government incentives and FDI has led to sea change in the IT/BPO industry in the continent.
Incentives & Opportunities for Scaling the "Impact Sourcing" Sector: Executive Summary
Avasant carried out a comprehensive study with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation with the goal of providing recommendations for governments and industry to implement and scale Impact Sourcing based on global best practices that align policies and incentives to industry needs.
Leveraging Social Media to Gain Market Share in Services Marketing
Social Media Marketing is a new phenomena in the new age marketing which has helped brands across the globe connect with audience effectively, in an engaging manner.
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.
Building and Running Contact Centers in Emerging Economies
Over the last few years, Contact Centers have mushroomed in emerging destinations such as India and Philippines creating job opportunities for millions. As businesses become more customer-centric, more Contact Centers are being established every day.
Can China's IT Services Market live up to the hype?
How can China rise to compete globally in IT services?
Essential Certifications for Call Centers and BPOs
This paper outlines the essential certifications for Business Process Outsourcing companies with details on the Organizational Certifications, Individual Certifications, Industry Specific Certifica-tions, and key Compliance Laws of the client nations.
Enhancing Effectiveness of Investment Promotion - Strategies for Developing Economies
As the world economies accelerate towards increasing the contribution of the services sector in their GDP, access to Capital is no longer the only criteria for increasing competitiveness of a nation.
Jamaica's 'To Da World'
Jamaica long known for its serene beauty, tranquil beaches, great hospitality and easy going life style is making an impact in the global outsourcing market as a preferred nearshore BPO loca-tion. The Jamaican BPO industry, which is about 15 years old, accounts for USD 145 million of the USD 2.5 billion Caribbean and LatAM market and employs over 13,000 full time workers. Please click here to view the article online on Global Services website.
Outlook 2012: IT Outsourcing in 2012
IT infrastructure outsourcing will see geographic expansion, consolidation, adoption of cloud, and offshore service providers continuing to work with US-based data center companies. IT applications outsourcing will be marked by increased thrust on business analytics driven by consumer computing and social media.