webmaster @ November 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Outsourcing might seem like a necessary evil – a cost-cutting strategy that guts quality control and invites theft of both intellectual and physical property. But outsourcing makes Paul Carpenter’s business work.
"There’s no reason we should do it all," he says. "We do what we’re best at – and have other firms handle the rest." [...]
webmaster @ November 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
BROOKFIELD, Wis. –(Business Wire)– Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading provider of information technology services to the financial industry, today announced it has acquired The Data Center (TDC) based in Grapevine, Texas, from Compass Bank.Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
TDC was a licensee and reseller of the Fiserv ITI Premier(R) core banking system, which [...]
webmaster @ September 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
THE LOCAL outsourcing operations of troubled US insurance firm American International Group (AIG) and financial giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. will continue expanding here despite mounting concerns of a slump in the world’s largest economy.
AIG-Business Processing Services, Inc. (BPSI), which has operations in the Philippines handling all customer service requirements of its parent, said it [...]
webmaster @ August 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“Normal banking transactions have been disrupted across 40,000 branches all over the country,” All-India Bank Employees’ Association (AIBEA) General Secretary C H Venkatchalam said. About nine lakh employees and officers belonging to Left-affiliated uni ons in the public sector, regional rural banks and cooperative banks took part in the strike, he said.
The call for [...]
webmaster @ August 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Scotland could become a centre for IT outsourcing if the work of a think tank comes to fruition.
The Outsourcing Hub Initiative wants outsourcing services included in the Scottish Government’s plans to invest in a number of industry sectors. The Government’s plans include promoting sector skills in higher education and giving tax breaks to companies. [...]
webmaster @ August 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When you run your own business, you are often everything to everyone. You need a wide range of skills from management and accounting, to human resources, sales and marketing. It can be easy to fall into the trap that you have to be jack of all trades. Many years ago, I certainly went down that [...]
webmaster @ August 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This is the year of cutting SUV production.
If you don’t believe it, ask Ford, where they’re idling manufacturing plants because they can’t sell the things; ask GM, which is closing four SUV plants; ask Hummer which is on life support, sending its long-time foes into giddy prognostication of the future of the auto industry [...]
webmaster @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By Frank Ahrens
Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 7, 2008;
The Washington Times will outsource its printing to the Baltimore Sun beginning Sept. 8, shutting down the paper’s New York Avenue presses, the Times told employees yesterday.
"Outsourcing our printing was becoming absolutely necessary," Times general manager Dick Amberg wrote in an [...]
webmaster @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Google Inc. said Wednesday that it has launched a music search service in China that allows users to access music legally online in a forum backed by some record labels and supported by advertising revenue.
Paid music downloads in China are virtually nonexistent, and Apple Inc.’s iTunes digital music store is not [...]
webmaster @ August 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
By Sholnn Freeman
Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 6, 2008; Page D01
Wireless Internet access is about to move out of coffee shops and airport lounges and into airplanes.
After years of talking about what customers wanted and waiting for new technology, Delta Air Lines said it will begin offering broadband Internet [...]