Martyn Hart's Blog – September 2010 Archive (3)

IT Outsourcing: on the road to recovery

Boom time for new market entrants?

It’s been a curious time for those involved in outsourcing for the IT sector. An increasing number of organisations have spent the last year cutting costs, rationalising and consolidating in an attempt to gain a financial foothold after the recession, and the result has been a sharp reduction in growth in ITO throughout industry as a whole.

If that isn’t enough, new laws have been passed over in the United States to prevent government… Continue

Added by Martyn Hart on September 16, 2010 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

To outsource or not to outsource?

How do you know when your business is well placed to benefit from outsourcing?

New research announced this week from analyst group Gartner found that more than half of all European organisations are planning to increase their use of outsourcing services.

Gartner’s study found that 53 percent of organisations said they would outsource more in 2010, with 40 percent of organisations planning to boost spending on external services. If accurate, it’s a clear sign that people in… Continue

Added by Martyn Hart on September 9, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Offshoring: more than just a short-term solution

Last week’s warning from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) on the dangers of the proposed immigration cap should be a stark warning to us all about the dangers of creating a skills gap in this country. After releasing figures which pointed to a 14% reduction in the number of work visas issued in the year to June 2010, the CIPD argued that not only is the present points-based system actually working, but that employers will struggle to fill the resulting skills gap…

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Added by Martyn Hart on September 3, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

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