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Various Aspects To Run a Successful Software Development Company

A software development company should aim for success in the industry and also target for client satisfaction as well. A software methodology should be adapted to better the prospects to survive in the industry. You may follow several successful business models that use the latest technology and upgrade the processes so that you achieve the [...]

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Outsourcing Weathers IT Skills Gap with the Cloud

Cloud computing and as-a-service are emerging as a viable choice over staff offshoring as a way to address the gap in IT skills with enterprise application development and data programs, according to a new market assessment. In its report, “The State of IT Outsourcing: The Elastic Workforce,” staffing and managed services consultancy Bluewolf raked through [...]

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How IT Outsourcing May Unearth the Mine of the Future

The growth of the developing world will likely require as many mineral resources over the next 25 years as have been used since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. But those scarce minerals will become increasingly difficult to recover from the earth. It’s a basic problem of supply and demand, but the solutions are anything [...]

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Strategic Outsourcing: Is It the Best Marketing Scheme?

Outsourcing is a growing industry. From big companies to small private businesses, it has become the most commonly used marketing strategy today. It assigns a person or a company to take charge of the process for a certain business. When a company goes against the edge of employment issues or improves sections of the business, [...]

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Outsourcing IT Services: Goals and Negotiations

The supplier selection phase of the sourcing lifecycle is dominated by negotiations and characterised by tactical measures. Contract negotiation starts with the request for proposal (RFP), which prepares the main prerequisites and is finalised with the contract signature. Negotiate and agree to as much as possible before the contract is signed, because renegotiating during an [...]

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Outsourcing’s New Reality: Choice Beats Cost

It’s the hottest of hot-button issues this electoral season. Small wonder. Along with “the 99%” and “entitlements,” it’s a loaded, often misrepresented or misunderstood term that encapsulates many of the political, economic, and social issues of the day–including class, foreign policy, immigration, employment, and national security. Critics lambaste outsourcing as a way for big corporations [...]

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10 Key Questions to Assess Application Outsourcing Maturity

As more companies look to external IT service providers to help them both innovate and optimize, many are initially surprised by the amount of change required for a relationship to work successfully — issues that extend well beyond onboarding supplemental, temporary staff. Many companies think that the key to outsourcing success is selecting the right [...]

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Mobile Integration Could Be the Next Big Outsourcing Push

Everybody is talking about mobile today. Smartphones are being bought at an alarming rate. Mobile phones now outnumber people. This in turn is making businesses speed up their plans when it comes to offering customers mobile services and interaction via mobile networks. Add to this the fact that businesses are trying to enable more flexible [...]

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5 Areas Most Likely to Be Outsourced in IT: Survey

The IT outsourcing market is growing, according to a new survey of 200 IT executives released by Bluewolf. That’s because companies are increasingly relying on outsourcers for IT talent needs. The survey finds 48% of companies will hire more contractors, rather than seek full-time staff, to meet growing IT needs in the next 12-18 months. [...]

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IT Outsourcing Mega-Deals Slated for the Scrap Heap

There is a quiet revolution in the technology corridors of some of the world’s largest corporations. Traditional five-year, outsourcing mega-deals – whereby companies delegate the running of information technology (IT) functions to a third party – look set for extinction. The reason is a pressing need for more flexible, short-term arrangements from newer, nimbler players [...]

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