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IndustryWeek
December 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Matters of Perception Many procurement teams feel underused and under-appreciated, but now could be their chance to shine.   |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Rachael Stormonth |
Are Vendors Contributing To the Slowdown in New Procurement BPO? Mismatches between buy-side requirements and vendors' services and capabilities prove challenging. |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Lisa Ross |
Department Procurement: Try Adding Procurement By outsourcing finance & accounting and procurement together, you can fan the flames of powerful synergies that will go straight to the bottom line -- while helping to improve operations. |
Bank Systems & Technology
February 21, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Comerica Awards BPO Contract to Accenture Accenture will provide COmerica with outsourced management of its procurement operations. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
First-Hand Accounts: By The Numbers Electronic connectivity with suppliers improves cost savings in procurement and accounts payable, study says. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Peggy Cope |
The Drive to Procurement Outsourcing ICG Commerce CEO talks about the drivers, challenges, and best practices of outsourcing your procurement. |
HRO Today
Jul/Aug 2008
Yvette Cameron |
The Three-legged Stool of BPO To maximize HRO effectiveness, maintain a three-way channel of communications. Technology providers should be a critical partner of outsourcing discussions. |
Global Services
December 4, 2008
Masur & Baldia |
Outsourcing in a Challenging Economy: The Multisourcing Alternative Many companies today are increasingly recognizing the possible benefits of a newer strategy known as multisourcing, which may well be a particularly effective strategy in rough economic times |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Speaking Out on Outsourcing Study shows more companies are now willing to outsource procurement tasks. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Buyer's Discourse: By the Numbers Companies that take a strategic and integrated approach to procurement can not only reduce costs, but also realize value and efficiencies. |
FAO Today
Nov/Dec 2007
Menzigian et al. |
Outsourcing Order-to-Cash & Procure-to-Pay For finance and accounting outsourcing, an understanding of Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay unlocks new opportunities to create business impact. |
HRO Today
April 2008
Barron & Ranjan |
Embracing the World's Offerings Global sourcing is increasingly a valuable tool for achieving business process outsourcing cost savings, and HR outsourcing buyers, long holdouts against offshoring, will finally start to give in to its alluring value. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2007
Traci Purdum |
Aligning Business Functions Pays Off Recent study outlines best practices to ensure a world-class procurement function. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2007
Traci Purdum |
Indirect Procurement Gets The Shaft Companies choose to outsource function to improve service. |
CIO
June 1, 2003
Mohanbir Sawhney |
Forward Thinking About Reverse Auctions It's easy to overestimate the value of this online procurement tool. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jan/Feb 2003
Thomas Jaekel |
Low Rates Help Insulate Commercial Markets From Unstable Economy Slower growth is an indication of the market's discipline and bodes well for the commercial real estate industry in light of an unpredictable economy. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2005 |
REIT Option for Federal Workers on the Menu? The question on the table at Capitol Hill is whether the inclusion of a REIT fund option would enhance the Thrift Savings Plan, the federal retirement savings program for civil service, postal and military personnel. |
Global Services
February 4, 2008
Imrana Khan |
34% Buyers Axe Their BPO Deals One of three customers of Business Process Outsourcing services ended their offshoring deals prematurely in 2007, reveals a recent study. |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
David I. Sheinfeld |
The Commoditization Of F&A Outsourcing With finance and accounting outsourcing providers cropping up on every street corner, the pressure is on for companies to distinguish themselves and their offerings to stay competitive. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2002
Darlene Bremer |
Economies of Scale When is bigger better for real estate companies? How much do economies of scale tip the balance of power in favor of larger REITs? |
Global Services
November 29, 2007 |
The Future of BPO The continuing implosion of the traditional organization and its underlying support-management approaches, and the emergence of virtualized businesses, will see the Business Process Outsourcing market grow substantially over the next few years. |
National Real Estate Investor
April 1, 2003
Steve Webb |
Outsourcing: Fewer Deals for Bigger Players Companies with diverse global portfolios are turning to outsourcing firms to shave millions in dollars per year from their real estate operating budgets. |
IndustryWeek
August 19, 2009
Steve Minter |
Procurement Outsourcing in Manufacturing Large manufacturers helped lead the procurement outsourcing market to 30% growth in 2008, according to a recent study. |
National Real Estate Investor
July 1, 2005
John C. Maher |
It's a Brand New Ballgame for Outsourcing Real Estate Outsourcing is certainly not a new concept to real estate. What is new is the extent to which outsourcing is being used by Global 1000 companies to improve the performance of key internal business functions such as finance and accounting, supply-chain management, human resources and real estate. |
IndustryWeek
April 15, 2009
Josh Cable |
Creating 'Interlock' Five strategies to keep the relationship between procurement and R&D in gear. |
Global Services
May 12, 2008
Imrana Khan |
The Sourcing Advisor Caveat Third-party advisors assistance may be one of the good reasons behind the overall satisfaction with the sourcing engagements you are involved in, but in many instances external advisors can hit hard on your pockets. |
Food Processing
August 2005
Mike Pehanich |
MRO strategies mean money in the bank Redundant purchasing and poor inventory management have cost companies millions of dollars for generations. But there are mountains of savings waiting to be found in maintenance, repairs and operations costs. |
HRO Today
May 2008
Baader & Cameron |
Divide and Conquer, Part Two In this conclusion of a two-part article, the authors examine the steps necessary to target the right processes for your organization's alternative service delivery strategies. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jan/Feb 2004
Christopher M. Wright |
Q&A with Tom Robinson The managing director and co-head of real estate investment banking at Legg Mason Wood Walker shares his thoughts on the capital markets and the real estate industry as a whole. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Good Captains and Calm Seas Five ways CPOs can prepare for an economic downturn. |
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2003
Mike Fickes |
Pension Funds Plan to Plow $14B into Real Estate in 2003 Occupancy may be down and sale prices high in many property types, but pension funds have big plans for buying commercial real estate in 2003. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Cost in Translation More effective sourcing efforts could be as simple as getting your procurement and finance departments to speak the same language. |
IndustryWeek
September 16, 2009
Steve Minter |
CPO Survey Shows Rising Pressure for Cost Savings Spend visibility remains a key problem and has been the top issue facing CPOs for two years running. |
CFO
September 1, 2008
Yasmin Ghahremani |
Expense Management: Better Ways to Buy Sometimes costs don't need to be cut so much as captured, quantified, and reconsidered. |
Bank Systems & Technology
February 24, 2010
Steve Martin |
Is Banking Ripe for Outsourcing? Several trends in the outsourcing provider space are altering the outsourcing value proposition for banks. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Regaining Cost-Consciousness The A&D industry wakes up to new ways to reduce procurement costs. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2003 |
When Opportunity Knocks, Should Investors Listen? Increasingly, real estate private equity funds, or opportunity funds, have become direct competitors with REITs. What makes real estate private equity funds tick? |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2001
Robert A. Frank |
Scenarios for the Future While many in the real estate community will acknowledge the importance of wired real estate in the new economy, controversy continues to revolve around who will benefit most from this trend.. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2001 |
Technology Roundups General Growth Properties, Inc. remains a believer in the power of technology... Forced Access Denied... Successful Screening... Willing and Enabled... |
Global Services
May 27, 2007
Fersht & Sappenfield |
F&A BPO: Beyond Labor Arbitrage While traditionally it has not been easy to convince CFOs of the business benefits of Finance and Accounting BPO, the effectiveness of some early deployments has boosted their confidence. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2006
Michael Fickes |
$1 Trillion Milestone Commercial real estate debt and equity securities now exceed $1 trillion. What does that mean? How did securitized commercial real estate grow so large? |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2004 |
Why Short-Term Savings? Fail to save for the near term at your own risk. |
Financial Advisor
May 2005
Raymond Fazzi |
Is Real Estate For Real? The questions being whispered on Wall Street ask if real estate values have gone too far out of sight after five years of serving as a "safe" refuge for investors battered by the volatile equity market. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2002 |
Q&A with Bob Lieber Bob Lieber, co-head of Lehman Brothers' Global Real Estate Investment Banking unit, shares his thoughts on the capital markets for publicly traded real estate and the industry as a whole. |
Global Services
December 7, 2008
Chris Osentowski |
Global Sourcing Strategies Customers are conferring with their global sourcing providers to revisit their outsourcing strategies, procurement processes, transition and delivery commitments for what is expected to be a soft year. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
The Do-It-Yourself Guide Is it always cheaper to farm it out, or should some things stay in-house? Here are six ways to help crack the "make or buy" mystery. |
IndustryWeek
May 29, 2009
Steve Minter |
Purchasing Officers: Confident Now, But is Trouble Ahead? While the recession has strengthened their negotiating positions, many purchasing professionals have not yet assessed the impact of the recession on their supply-management strategy. |
Global Services
November 4, 2008
John Willmott |
F&A Outsourcing Regroups in 2008: Improved Business Analytics Delivery in 2009 & 2010 Finance and Account Outsourcing (FAO) contract activity was down this year. Here's a look at the future of this industry. |
Global Services
October 9, 2007 |
Accenture: Customers' Favorite for FAO Sept. '07 has gone well for Accenture specially in the finance and accounting space. Customers like Microsoft and BT Group both selected Accenture to provide F&A and procurement services |
Global Services
July 1, 2008
Imrana Khan |
The Case for Transformation Beyond the hype about transformation there's some real work being delivered that makes the case for business transformation outsourcing. |
