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Telecommunications and Network Services: Ten Key Steps to Sourcing Strategy

This paper is a precis of Hudson & Yorke's White Paper "The Ten Key Steps to Sourcing Strategy" which is targeted at the large end-user organisation considering a telecommunications and network strategic sourcing programme. It describes ten key tasks that should be carried out prior to issuing a Request For...

Tags: Sourcing, Network, Network Service, Telecommunications, Strategic Sourcing, Hudson & Yorke, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2009-07-24

Taxing Issues in Strategic Sourcing Decisions

Today's economic environment is forcing companies to assess their core competencies and identify more efficient operating modes. This analysis encompasses strategic sourcing options such as relocation and consolidation to use shared services, insourcing, outsourcing and co-sourcing. The precise tax implications of each option should be a key part of the...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Strategic Sourcing, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance

White papers 2009-05-07

Strategic Sourcing of Transaction Processing: From the Back Office to the Boardroom

The financial services industry is undergoing a radical transformation driven by globalization, deregulation, consolidation, and deconstruction of the vertically integrated business models common to transaction-processing businesses. In these uncertain times, unconventional business models that deconstruct traditional structures such as vertically integrated manufacturing and processing businesses are likely to offer more...

Tags: Boston Consulting Group Inc., Transaction Processing, Business Model, Strategic Sourcing, Back-office, Financial Services Industry, Globalization, Strategy, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-02-14

Strategic Sourcing for Vendor Management Results in Flexibility, Simplicity, and Reduced Costs

Cisco Systems has an enormous IT infrastructure budget. Lack of consistent process meant that Cisco could receive 20 different agreements for the same service with the same vendor. Agreements in different countries would have different prices, lengths, terms, and service levels. This was an inefficient and complex process for both...

Tags: Agreement, Strategic Sourcing, Cisco Systems Inc.

Case studies 2007-12-13

Helping Your Organization Reduce Spend and Increase Operational Efficiencies

This white paper describes strategic sourcing and reverse auctions within the context of buy-side commerce. Starting with a quick analysis of the strategic sourcing market, the paper then examines the main processes of strategic sourcing and the main features of online reverse auctions. It also discusses the vital role an...

Tags: Strategic Sourcing, IBM Corp.

White papers 2004-02-01

Spearheading the Drive Toward Strategic Sourcing With mySAP Supplier Relationship Management

Always hungry for new functionality and better performance, Alfa was keeping a close watch on the market for Supplier Relationship Management SRM software. Alfa, a US$5.6 billion Mexican conglomerate, replaced its legacy platform with mySAP Supplier Relationship Management mySAP SRM to streamline e-procurement processes and reduce costs. Alfa has a...

Tags: mySAP, Supplier Relationship Management, SAP AG, Strategic Sourcing, mySAP SRM, Alfa, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Marketing

Case studies

Stop Drowning in Data: A Strategic Sourcing Web Series - Beyond Simply Treading Water: Why Procurement Data Quality Matters

This webcast describes pressing challenges and best practices in strategic sourcing; five keys to transforming the procurement organization from transactional to strategic; the strategic sourcing continuum and how to determine the organization's spot on it; and steps the organization can take right now to become strategic.

Tags: Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations

Webcasts

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Firms get more strategic about SaaS sourcing in 2010

SaaS is one of Forrester's Top 15 enterprise technologies to watch. by Liz Herbert

Tags: Sourcing, Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Purchasing & Procurement, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Liz Herbert

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Who Benefits From Outsourcing?: The Political, Economic and Cultural Ramifications of Outsourcing

While simple on the surface, the decision to outsource is a major strategic undertaking for most companies. Since it involves evaluating the probable reduction in costs against the consequences of a loss in control over production or performance of a certain business function, the opportunity to outsource and offshore should...

Tags: Sourcing, Outsource, Benefit, Offshoring, Intetics, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Purchasing & Procurement, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

White papers 2009-08-18

Live Webcast: Wireless Convergence and SIP Trunking: Plan Early, Save Money Now

If you don't have a clear adoption strategy for SIP Trunking and wireless convergence, you are about to take a wrong turn. Do you know if your carrier and contractual landscape enables the adoption of next generation networks? Research shows that enterprises often engage in new technology...

Tags: SIP, Webcast, ProfitLine Inc., Convergence, Wireless, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Free Trade, Wi-Fi, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Wireless And Mobility

Webcasts 2009-08-03

Oracle's Fusion middleware master plan starts coming together

Oracle on Wednesday launched its Fusion 11g middleware family and the effort is aimed at linking the technological underpinnings of all of the company's acquired applications, owning the market, creating one fundamental software stack for the enterprise, laying the foundation for a cloud strategy as well as a few other...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Chances, Miko Matsumura, Middleware, Programming Languages, Java, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-01

HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT operations

LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HP today unveiled its new HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) solutions, aimed at recession-beleaguered IT executives who need to cut costs, prepare for a service-based future, and run their departments like a business -- all at the same time. FP&A is part...

Tags: Financial Planning, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Information Technology, Analysis, FP&A, Business Leader, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-16

SAP & SaaS - some clarifications

TechMarketView ran a piece today about SAP and its SaaS software as a service products/initiatives. When I read the article, I thought this couldn't be right. I was especially confused by this paragraph: SAP’s flagship mid-market SaaS offering, Business ByDesign, announced in September...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Cutting software maintenance costs 101

Maintenance and support costs are increasingly gobbling up more of your IT budget despite the occasional bone thrown to you from your friendly neighborhood software vendor. The larger question is what can be done about this maintenance inflation.  Luckily Forrester Research has a few answers.  ...

Tags: Software, Software Company, Vendor, Shelfware, Forrester Research Inc., Maintenance Revenue, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Strategy, Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Sugar CRM reduces prices across the board, looking for broad adoption

Sugar CRM reduces prices across the board, looking for broad adoptionI Couldn't Agree MoreDennis,You are just SOOOO right about this. This is a smart significant move by SugarCRM which on the one hand, at least reflects they listen to customers and on the other is a savvy competitive move in...

Tags: Corporate governance, Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, Sugar CRM, broad adoption, CRM, board

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company...

Morten T. Hansen, a Danish professor in Entrepreneurship at INSEAD business school, has a terrific piece in the April edition of the  Harvard Business Review entitled 'When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company'. Hansen discusses the political realities of cross unit collaboration very eloquently: 'Collaboration can...

Tags: Hansen, HBS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Collaboration Return-On-Investment

"Competition has its place in the marketplace or against last year's performance -- perhaps even against another office or individual where there is no particular interdependence, no need to cooperate. But cooperation in the workplace is as important to free enterprise as...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Environment, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-29

The downside to corporate wireless plans

Guest post: When looking at corporate wireless plans, TechRepublic's Jay Rollins finds that the promise of pooled minutes, volume discounts, and a dedicated account manager may seem like Nirvana, but you’re giving something up. You can find more posts like this on TechRepublic's CIO for Hire blog. ...

Tags: Customer Service, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Telecommunications, Wireless, 3G Card, Wireless Coverage, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-04

No help for HR recruiters in down economy

HR Survey results, TalentDrive, InterActive Applicant and more TalentDrive, a slick HR technology and service provider, has been busy lately with some interesting surveys. In one survey of 7500 staffing firms and independent recruiters, they discovered that: - 52% are investing in increased marketing efforts and...

Tags: Staffing, Recruiting, TalentDrive, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Extraordinary Collaboration Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Image: E.M. Ward, "The South Sea Bubble" (1846) Tate Gallery UK David Freeman, who has positive views about disordered individual work practices in his book 'A Perfect Mess', wrote an interesting piece I refer back to a lot in Inc magazine September '06 'What's Next:...

Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-13