Europe

Results of the SSOW 2017 Live Polling Across All Attendees

Posted: 07/20/2018 - 00:00
Author: Stefanie Ullrich

SSON talked to the Head of HR Services Germany at Merck KGaA and the EMEA Talent Acquisition Manager UK & Northern Europe at LinkedIn about strategies to ensure added value for the business, social recruiting, expectations of "digital" talents, how digitization and disruption affects HR processes, and much more! Read the full German language interview here for free: http://bit.ly/SSOW-HRSSC-Interviews

Putting the "G" into "GBS"

Posted: 07/12/2016 - 03:33
Author: Jamie Liddell

At a recent breakfast roundtable I hosted, one of our guests was discussing the transformation her organisation is currently undergoing, moving a significant proportion of its recruitment function into a central office collocated with a number of other back-office activities.

“It’s a shared service,” she said, “and they’re calling it ‘Global Business Services’ – but we’re not really sure what that’s supposed to mean. We’re not recruiting globally.”

OPINION: Look away, look away, look away, Euroland!

Posted: 07/01/2016 - 19:57
Author: Simon Boardman

Maybe Daniel Decatur Emmett will forgive me for “borrowing” some lyrics from his iconic 1850s American folk song, ‘Dixie’. I do this to encourage British business to look further afield for IT outsourcing services, as encouraged by Brexit. The USA and its domestic or onshoring companies represent a great but seldom considered alternative.

Brexit: the bulldog's lonely bark

Posted: 06/25/2016 - 05:59
Author: Jamie Liddell

Like a huge minority of Britons I woke this morning deeply saddened by the news I had been dreading ever since the referendum on leaving the EU was announced: our four-decade-long participation in one of the most remarkable – and, perhaps, noble – political ventures in history will soon be coming to an end.

EMEA outsourcing is off to strong start in 2016: ISG

Posted: 05/04/2016 - 01:50
Author: John Keppel

We’ve just published the latest Outsourcing Index from Information Services Group (ISG) (which measures commercial outsourcing contracts with an annual contract value (ACV) of €4 million or more), and found that the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region got off to a strong start in 2016, with double-digit growth in both contract value and volume, reaching €2.25 billion in the first quarter, an increase of 19 per cent over the same period in 2015.

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