Guy Kirkwood's Blog – August 2009 Archive (2)

I've been giving a lot of thought into why clients and outsourcing service providers fall out and I think that in most cases, it comes down to different expectations; i.e. each party provides misaligned inputs leading to misaligned outcomes.



I've talked before about how outsourcing is mostly about guessing. The service BPO/ITO provider guesses what the client wants and what the competitive organisations are going to charge. The client in turn guesses what services are going to be… Continue

There is a quiet revolution taking place in the legal market. At the moment, it is being kept hush hush because lawyers in the US, Australia and the UK are moving some of their "turn the handle" grunty back-office processes offshore - mainly to India. Of course, the reason they're keeping it quiet is that they're still charging top dollar/pound/euro to clients for these same services.



So far, so capitalist.



But, corporates are getting in on the act. As Matt Sullivan has… Continue