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Outsourcing: Years
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Outsourcing has had a difficult year in North America. There are many explanations, some point to quality concerns, some to governance concerns, and some to a reduction in value caused by the combination of labor shortages and currency fluctuations. All of these represent a change in the risk-reward analysis that many […]
"This is by no means the death knell for IT outsourcing. However, the boom years for growth have come and gone," said Weakland. "This should serve as a wake-up call for outsourcing providers that all is not well with their customer relationships and that they need to refocus on quality, clarity and measurement."
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IW500 DALLAS, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Dimensions Healthcare System of Prince George's County, Maryland, has renewed its contract for comprehensive IT outsourcing with Phoenix Health Systems. The contract extension for an additional 3 years is the fourth extension of Dimensions' original five-year contract with Phoenix, signed in 1998.
IT outsourcing in Western Europe will continue to increase over the next two years, according to a new survey by Gartner. But the analyst firm warned that many companies face unnecessary risks because they have not developed coherent management strategies for outsourcing.
The study predicts that marketing outsourcing will jump 14% in 2006, from 29% last year to 33% this year in annual marketing expenditures at high-tech companies. It ... found that executives who outsourced marketing domestically did so primarily to gain bandwidth and access to expertise.
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