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Newsletter | December, 2005 | Issue Fourteen Outsourcing, Shared Services, and Offshoring Thought Leadership
Thought Leadership
Innovative Opinions on the State of Outsourcing

Offshoring: All your Questions Answered
By Paul Morrison and Meritxell Macia
Managing Consultants, Alsbridge - Europe
Q: Is Offshoring the same as Outsourcing?
A: No, offshoring can be outsourced, but equally it can..
Q:What can be successfully Offshored?
A: Not all business activities can be sourced globally..
Q:What are the main pitfalls of Offshoring?
A: One of the biggest dangers is not getting all of the..
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OutsourcingBlog
A Running Commentary on Outsourcing News
 
 
The Legal Voice
Outsourcing from a Legal Perspective

Blame it on the Regulators
By David Guedry
Partner, Jones Day

Let’s say that your company is a global financial services company with employees in more than 35 countries. You are outsourcing your end-to-end human resources function to a single provider. Up to this point you have always taken steps to ensure that you’re on top of changes in laws that could effect how you manage your employees. Once you outsource your HR function, does your responsibility for that continued monitoring and compliance cease? More

 
HRO Viewpoints
Human Resources Outsourcing Insight
  
HR Outsourcing – Gaining Momentum
By Scott Golas
Head of Research for Global HRO, NelsonHall

There have been innumerable suggestions over the last decade on how to fix the HR function. Given HR’s mantra of “earning a seat at the table,” and the erratic progress made, there are few who question why HR outsourcing continues to gain momentum. Yet the promise of outsourcing eludes most HR departments. Most HR groups have managed to take the liberating promise of outsourcing and convert it to the new problem on which HR can focus.. More
 
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Essentials - White Papers and Industry Research that keep you on Target.
By Ben Trowbridge, CEO and Managing Partner, Alsbridge - North America
Outsourcing has long been regarded as a successful way for organizations to cut costs and focus on their core business while gaining access to world-class capabilities. While these drivers are still valid, and even compelling in many situations, they do not represent the full scope of the advantage to be gained by outsourcing. Enter Business Transformational Outsourcing – an ambitious outsourcing strategy that aims to transform a process or function to achieve, along with improved performance and reduced costs, an enterprise-wide strategic advantage over your competitors. More

By Rick Simmonds, Partner, Alsbridge - Europe
Having been involved in business process outsourcing initiatives as a supplier, client and consultant for the last 15 years, it has become clear to me that procurement outsourcing deals are very different from other procurement decisions.This is because an outsourcing deal is all about co-developing a deal with a partner, not just about choosing a supplier and agreeing a price. ‘Partnership’ is an over-used term in relationships which are essentially (and contractually) customer-supplier – but, and it is a big but, complex BPO deals are almost living organisms, subject to growth and change, even death. There is no standard approach, nothing out of the box. More
 
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