It’s likely that in this global climate, the incidence of outsourcing and offshoring will increase in a bid to maintain service efficiency and cut costs. However, there is some conflicting debate within the press of what the outsourcing market is set to do, especially when focusing on financial services. It has been reported prominently [...]
Archive for September, 2008
A Return Home?
September 30, 2008Mergers & Acquisitions
September 23, 2008The world economy is the worst it’s been for quite sometime. After years of sustained growth businesses are beginning to come to terms with the impact of the ‘credit crunch’ and the decline in revenue. As a result the press has been buzzing with acquisition and merger news not least of all Lloyds TSB and [...]
European Outsourcing
September 16, 2008Outsourcing and shared services are modes of working that have become increasingly prevalent in the last few years – the UK has always led the way, but the rest of Europe is following suit.
Spain is increasingly coming under the spotlight as a key outsourcing nation and is quickly catching up with other countries in Western [...]
Obama’s Outsourcing Assault
September 3, 2008The press has been buzzing with the latest American electoral war development. Obama, on one side, has vowed to discourage outsourcing across America stating the age old adage that American jobs should remain in America. John McCain on the other hand believes that outsourcing is helping to create a healthy competitive US economy.
The question [...]