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How to Make Business Innovation Become Routine | The success of modern enterprises depends on their ability to transform according to the current technological trends. For many reasons, sometimes it’s not easy to update your business processes. Here is when outsourcing of innovations can become a proper solution. More »
The Modern Workplace: The Importance and Benefits of Good Communication and Collaboration in Today’s Business | Modern business cooperation is working with customers, suppliers, partners, and subordinates. Success of the business largely depends on the established communication processes. That is why it is important to set them up with maximal effectiveness. More »
Automate Outsourcing Governance to Drive Competitive Advantage | Large corporations have been using outsourcing as a business transformation tool for decades. Although the service delivery is transferred to the vendor, the accountability remains with the client organization to ensure risks are managed, and the promised value is delivered. This is where Outsourcing Governance teams come into the picture.
Organizations have performed outsourcing governance in silos and mostly manually. The outsourcing governance teams are usually understaffed and lack the tools to manage the engagements effectively.
This fragmented and completely manual approach results in significant loss of the value expected from outsourcing engagments. What organizations need is a tool that can automate the outsourcing governance function and help maximize value. More »
Direct Sales Support case study | In this case study learn how a well-established, long-running direct selling company offering a catalog of diverse home and entertaining products through a team of over 30,000 field executives/sales consultants overcame their struggle to find local, bilingual resources to support their consultants. Resources, particularly those entering the labor force, were pulled to work in the city, and this presented challenges in both retention and succession planning. More »
How to Make Business Innovation Become Routine | The success of modern enterprises depends on their ability to transform according to the current technological trends. For many reasons, sometimes it’s not easy to update your business processes. Here is when outsourcing of innovations can become a proper solution. More »
Outsourcing Pricing: Do You Know What You Don’t Know? | More »
The Win-Win Outsourcing Formula | The value that outsourcing BPOs can add to their partners and the competitive market where customers became more selective to the partner who gives the best value. More »
Leveraging analytics in Telecom | Presenting a valid business case for leveraging the power of predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics in the telecom sector to derive meaningful and actionable insights that will help management in taking well-informed decisions that will drive business forward. More »
Cloud Migration | As enterprises and governments move to the cloud, many executives are wrestling with the transition from on premise packaged applications to cloud sed solutions. Getting the approach right goes a long way to ensure a successful transition to the cloud.
Most organizations are already aware of the benefits of switching from ‘on premise’ or packaged software to SAAS (Software as a Service) models. Besides lowering costs, the cloud offers seamless user experience, instant access to new markets and helps build a global customer base. As organizations attempt to transition to cloud or need to upgrade their existing SAAS applications to leverage the new cloud architectures, they come across a number of challenges. More »
Analytics in Healthcare | Presenting an approach that envisages applying machine learning and advanced data analytics to electronic health records and doctor/nurse text notes to predict possible hospital re-admission cases, enabling hospitals to minimize instances of re-admission and avoid punitive levies. More »
Moving from Projects to Products | In this thought paper, we discuss the importance of a product mindset and how that informs decisions across the company by collapsing boundaries and bringing people together from all parts of the company to focus on delivering exceptional products versus serving functions or projects, including the six capability areas necessary to embed a product culture. More »
Effectively Managing Remote Teams | This white paper helps managers with tips and solutions to manage remote teams effectively, creating positive results through productivity and camaraderie. More »
Automate Outsourcing Governance | Large corporations have been using outsourcing as a business transformation tool for decades. Although the service delivery is transferred to the vendor, the accountability remains with the client organization to ensure risks are managed, and the promised value is delivered. This is where Outsourcing Governance teams come into the picture. Organizations have performed outsourcing governance in silos and mostly manually. The outsourcing governance teams are usually understaffed and lack the tools to manage the engagements effectively.
This fragmented and completely manual approach results in significant loss of the value expected from outsourcing engagments. What organizations need is a tool that can automate the outsourcing governance function and help maximize value. More »
2019 Impact Sourcing Webinar | IAOP believes that Impact Sourcing is an important means for the outsourcing industry to contribute to both business and social benefits, as well as to the economic development of regions we source from. Attendees had a front-row seat to a presentation given by our 2019 Global Impact Sourcing Award Winners, including speakers from Intuit, Samasource, RuralShores, and Harambee, who shared the what, how and why of their Impact Sourcing journey and programs. This was followed by a presentation by Sara Enright, Program Director, Global Impact Sourcing Coalition, offering an update on this global effort to advance Impact Sourcing as a business best practice, and advice on how your organization can get started or scale up your Impact Sourcing initiatives in collaboration with peers. More »
Sourcing Digital: 3 Core Viewpoints for Enterprise Buyers | Digital adoption is changing the services marketplace – and procurement and sourcing teams must understand the many implications. With their potential to improve both customers’ and employees’ experiences, digital platforms are quickly becoming today’s lead outsourcing value drivers. In addition to shifting the value proposition, these new platforms are changing the vendor landscape. Behind the buzz around AI, analytic platforms, customer interactions, and RPA is the big question: How should you buy it? In parts and components? Layers and bundles? Whole box? More »