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Drivers of Change in Ethiopia – Growing the IT/BPO sector through leveraging ICT
The changing landscape of IT/BPO industry has led to the emergence of new locations in Africa. Among many African nations, Ethiopia is growing at the rate of more than 10% per annum and is likely to attain the middle-income status by 2025. Leveraging ICT with a focus on capacity building is catalyzing economic prosperity and creating sustainable employment opportunity in the country.
January, 2014
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.
January, 2014
SMAC: The New Business Paradigm for Enterprises
Social, Mobility, Analytics, and Cloud (SMAC) are the convergent forces that are driving new business paradigms for enterprises. The 21st century is already witnessing a crumbling of traditional enterprises while competing against new age disruptive organizations. Consumers and enterprises have entered into engaging win-win relationships. As SMAC unfolds, it will create innumerable business opportunities for enterprises in 2014 and beyond.
January, 2014
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.
August, 2013
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. As the population continues to grow and also age, there is a greater need to better understand their health care requirements to achieve better outcomes for the money spent and controlling the overall cost of delivery.
August, 2013
The Digital Divide: are we ready to breach the chasm?
Friedman in his 2005 epic book "The World is Flat" argues that convergence of personal computer with fiber-optic micro cable, along with the rise of work flow software, will have a flattening effect on world commerce and trade. It will create a level playing field, where developing economies will be able to compete with developed economies on even terms, leveraging converged Information & Communication Technology (ICT).
August, 2013
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.
July, 2013
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.
July, 2013
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. This paper elaborates on the dos and donts of harnessing the cloud and to optimize the business metrics most important to their organizations.
May, 2013
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.
April, 2013
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. Avasants thought leadership believes the following trends will have a significant impact on shaping the global sourcing market in 2013.
January, 2013
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.
January, 2013