Friday, August 20th, 2010
Engineering and construction major Larsen and Toubro’s (L&T) subsidiary L&T Power plans to outsource equipment manufacturing activities at Hazira to meet rising demand for power equipment from power companies. “We plan to increase outsourcing of components and equipment needed for our supercritical steam boiler, turbine -generator facility at Hazira,” said L&T Power managing director and CEO Ravi Uppal.
The exercise will help us to reduce the cost of expanding the facility from estimated `1,500 crore to close to `1,000 crore, he added. The company plans to expand its equipment manufacturing facilities from 4,000 mw to 6,000 mw. The company commissioned the 4,000-mw facility for supercritical (main power equipment or BTG package) equipment manufacturing at Hazira this year with an investment of over `3,600 crore.
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Quintiles has outsourced its voluntary benefits scheme to enhance the offering to its 2,000 UK employees.
The bio and pharmaceutical services firm replaced its in-house discount scheme with one supplied by Edenred that offers staff a broader choice of benefits.
Quintiles conducted a survey of employees’ views of its benefits, and found that its previous discount scheme was not highly valued by workers.
Tweet this!Friday, July 30th, 2010
GENESEE COUNTY — The county could outsource its computer and information services and the chairman of the Board of Commissioners says continuing problems with the county’s Web site aren’t helping the cause of those who want to keep the service in-house.
“I think they are building a case for why it needs to privatized,” said Jamie Curtis, chairman of the county commission. “I’m frustrated by it. I’m sick and tired of it.”
Curtis has made no secret that he’s not impressed by the county’s Web site overall, saying it puts this area at a competitive disadvantage because it doesn’t measure up to other counties in terms of information of ease of use.
Tweet this!Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
An outsourcing contract has been signed between the retail giant Unilever and BT with an estimated worth of £144m. The technologies that are to be implemented within the next four years are messaging, supply chain and wireless technology over the 100 countries that lie within Unilever’s three operating regions. The services included are design, management and the operation of a secure, fully integrated end-to-end IT networking infrastructure, delivering data, voice, video and mobility services to all Unilever sites.
Tweet this!Friday, July 16th, 2010
Insurance conglomerate Aon Corp. said Monday it has agreed to buy human resources specialist Hewitt Associates for $4.9 billion in a cash-and-stock deal that would nearly triple the size of its consulting business.
The deal, assuming it is approved by regulators, is the company’s biggest ever and dramatically expands its push into human resources consulting worldwide. Aon is the world’s largest insurance broker but trails rival Marsh & McLennan Co., whose subsidiaries include Mercer and Oliver Wyman Group, in the size of its consulting business.
Tweet this!Thursday, July 8th, 2010
After hours of deliberation, the Somerville Board of Alderman early this morning approved a budget proposed by Mayor Joseph Curtatone that includes a modified “hybrid” outsourcing of school custodial services.
The revised $165,467,296 budget includes $40,000 in cuts made possible by wage concessions agreed to by non-union employees. A request sent to all collective bargaining units asking for a similar sacrifice was not granted, Curtatone said on Tuesday.
“We have received not a single offer of sustainable cost reduction from any of our collective bargaining units,” he said, adding that an offer submitted by the Somerville Municipal Employees Association to defer a portion of members’ wages could “hardly be considered sustainable.” The offer requires the funds to be repaid in full beginning in fiscal 2013.
Tweet this!Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Careline Services, the outsource company , have announced that BPO company Hinduja Global Solutions (HGSL) have acquired 100 per cent stake in the company with plans to expand its operation in the European market.
Commenting on the acquisition Hinduja Global Solutions CEO Partha Sarkar said, “This acquisition would act as a launch pad for HGSL to enter the UK and European markets, and will also be a platform to cross-sell its global delivery model to Careline’s European client base,” the city-headquartered HGSL said in a statement.
Tweet this!Monday, June 21st, 2010
In a seventh-floor conference room festooned with framed articles and journalism awards, Managing Editor Gordon Witkin leads the morning discussion of stories his staff is pursuing.
Their latest scoop–on members of Congress dumping their BP stock–”was a big success,” he says. “It was in an AP story that sent it everywhere, including Yahoo and Google News.”
On the front burner, a dozen staffers around the table explain, is a joint series just approved by the New York Times. A piece under way with The Washington Post is being edited. There was a “tough conference call,” says international director David Kaplan, with eight London producers on a 10-segment project with the BBC.
Tweet this!Friday, June 18th, 2010
The US State of Indiana and computer giant IBM are taking each other to court over a 10-year, $1.6 billion outsourcing contract that was designed to modernise Indiana’s ageing welfare administration system.
Yesterday, the two parties filed claims and counterclaims against each other over the project, which came to a halt when Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels pulled the plug in October 2009, describing the system delivered by IBM as “unworkable”.
Tweet this!Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
NEW YORK CITY – IT outsourcing service providers that want to work with major tech companies had better, in the immortal words of James Brown, “get up, get into it, and get involved.”
Representatives from several leading-edge sourcing buyers made it clear at a panel discussion here at the NASDAQ Building in Times Square last night that they’re looking for providers who aren’t just skilled developers but who also know how to engage as real partners in a project. Taking orders and typing code won’t be enough. Oh, and playing video games can also be important.
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