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| 04/23/12It's Time to Rethink OutsourcingKPMG Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory US leader Cliff Justice writes for IT Business Edge's CIO Update: It's clear that the outsourcing and business services industry is about to go through a change like never before. |
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| 02/29/12Investment in IT Critical to Recovery With global economies stuttering, over half of company executives believe that investing in IT will help them kick-start their businesses. The finding, from KPMG interviews with 300 business leaders worldwide, suggests the executives are feeling more positive about driving growth in their own organisations. |
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| 02/29/12Seeking Growth Beyond the Eurozone: Implications for Global Business ServicesWhile there is much talk around increased protectionism and “de-globalisation” in the West, driven by weak local economies and populist politics, it is highly debatable whether these trends will slow Western firms’ expansion into Eastern and Southern Asian global markets. New KPMG research reinforces this point. |
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| 01/11/12Public Sector Outsourcing and the New NormalToday’s interest in government outsourcing is still based on cost savings, but the ambitions are far broader. Governments around the world are now considering outsourcing as a means to a completely new way of delivering services in a highly cost-effective manner. |
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| 12/07/11Discovering the Social Network's Pot of GoldTo conduct digital transformation projects, firms will need to address a number of unique challenges presented by the current trajectory of corporate social media adoption. |
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| 08/24/11Wary Customers Turning to Shared ServicesIn its 2Q11 Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey, management consultancy KPMG found that demand is increasing for the use of shared services in outsourcing deals to drive internal process improvement. The drive to shared services means customers must use new metrics to measure vendors, and vendors must be more careful in choosing engagement. |
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| 08/02/11CIOs Lack Adequate Cloud Computing KnowledgeTraditional IT outsourcing customers are struggling with cloud computing, according to IT service providers and outsourcing advisors surveyed by KPMG Sourcing Advisory. IT service providers and advisors rated their IT executive customers' facility with various aspects of cloud computing on a scale of one to five, where one represented "very unskilled" and five represented "very skilled." IT executives earned embarrassing scores from their providers and advisors. |
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| 05/16/11Reporting for Duty: Speeding up the close and reporting cycleDespite increased financial reporting complexity and requirements, companies are closing and consolidating faster, and even more are setting aggressive goals to shorten the Record-To-Report (R2R) process. Companies that do not accelerate their process could be at a straegic disadvantage, but perhaps surprisingly, achieving results can be relatively painless when taking a well-planned analytical and comprehensive approach. |
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| 04/05/11High Growth Markets: Serving up successInsight and perspective from KPMG on today's global economic hot spots: While there's no question high growth markets such as China and India have been affected by the global economic crisis, they continue to offer strategic opportunities -- whether you want to tap into the rising consumer affluence in these markets or reduce costs through better sourcing. |
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| 03/22/11Switching Outsourcing Providers: 10 TipsIT leaders are doing as much re-sourcing -- bringing work back in-house or transferring it to a new provicer -- as they are signing new outsourcing deals. But "recompeting"an IT services deal isn't simple. Consider these tips before switching outsourcing providers. |
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| 03/10/11Keep Resourcing, Recruiting StrongAs the business cycle recovers, inventories come down, and manufacturing and services resume, how will we get the product out the door with less-highly-skilled help? There are several things we should be doing now to meet that recovery. |
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| 02/17/11Outsourcing Buyers Are Ready for ChangeIn EquaTerra's 4Q2010 Pulse survey, respondents ranked how legitimately “hot” (defined as truly having a business impact on buyer organizations) they felt a predefined list of market trends will be in 2011, with a rank of one representing cold or little market impact and five representing hot or having a major market impact. |
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