This week’s blog is written by Bharat Vagadia, SME Outsourcing Director of the NOA and CEO of Op2i.
The current economic climate has focused many decision maker’s thoughts on minimising cost and maximising efficiency. As a result, interest in outsourcing and offshoring is increasing rapidly. Every day we hear about how huge corporations have signed multi [...]
Archive for November, 2008
SME Outsourcing
November 25, 2008Public sector shared services on the up
November 17, 2008Recent research, conducted by Ovum, has forecasted the European public sector shared services market will be worth £4bn between 2007-2012. This is further evidence of how the public sector is coming around to the idea of consolidation and rationalisation of services. Sectors such as the emergency services are taking innovative steps to consolidate processes and [...]
A time for reflection
November 11, 2008This has been a very challenging and interesting year for all industries. The credit crunch has had a considerable impact on the world economy and no one would dispute that we are in unpredictable times. Outsourcing deals have changed significantly in terms of what end users expect and what suppliers are offering and it is [...]
Experts, what experts?
November 4, 2008What happens when your advisors get it wrong? That’s what a fellow member asked me at an NOA meeting last week.
His department had chosen outsourcing advisors, a usual government procurement strategy, to source a supplier. The advisors appeared to be the perfect people for the job, they certainly appeared, at first glance, to have the [...]
