Rather than buying in managed services on an ad hoc basis from a variety of providers, selecting a single, large managed service provider simplifies the entire management process, cutting costs and improving operational efficiency by consolidating multiple services provided by multiple operators.

Lovells is in the middle of a pilot that could potentially see all of its documentation work outsourced to South Africa in a bid to cut costs.

Over the past four years, India’s outsourcing sector has grown at an accelerated rate. Can business continue to succeed in a country where safety fears have become a common theme?

To better understand how enterprises are reshaping their finance organizations to address key challenges, meet end-state objectives and improve enterprise value, the IBM Institute for Business Value, in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit, surveyed 210 senior finance professionals.

This guide aims to propose a vision of how Shared Services might develop over the next 10-15 years. Also identified, are the key requirements of a commercial model for Shared Services and what alternative are available.

At one time, the pharmaceutical supply chain only featured on the boardroom agenda when things went wrong. Today, it is subject to much greater scrutiny, as companies everywhere focus on how best to launch new drugs, assure the safety and supply of those drugs, and simultaneously cut costs.

In the IBM CFO Study, CFOs indicated that Finances top areas of importance were performance, business and economic growth, business value and risk. These responses track with CEOs’ agendas.

This major research project was undertaken to gain perspective on where supply chain management is today and the direction in which it is evolving. This report places the research findings into an overall context and provides insight into the continuing evolution of supply chain management.

In order to support the agenda for growth through innovation, Finance needs to partner more, to analyse and predict, not only record and report. But, what stops this happening?

How can IT be a self-funding function, keeping itself aligned with changing business imperatives? How can we set a methodical roadmap to such a cost structure? This white paper suggests how the much needed transformation can be brought about.