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Purpose – Describes new software that helps UK media company Sterling Print to manage its 18 shift patterns across the 24‐hour, seven‐day working week. Design/methodology/approach – Draws on information supplied by the Sterling Print finance director and the UK general manager of the...
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The PRIME contract is revolutionising the property industry. It has enabled the UK Government’s Department of Social Security to outsource not just its facilities management and property management but also its entire property portfolio and the risks associated with it. PRIME will provide the...
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Outsourcing is a mechanism which has transformed the delivery of facilities management, logistics, IT and other … services to today's corporations. This paper looks at the reasons behind the rise and rise of outsourcing and its applicability … outsourcing are discussed, and lessons are drawn from more mature outsourcing markets (IT, logistics etc) that should help those …
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This paper addresses the question as to what extent the outsourcing degrees of property management influence the … operating costs of owner‐operated real estate. For this purpose, the outsourcing degrees of technical, infrastructural and … inverse relationship was identified in respect of the cleaning costs, where the costs are lower when outsourcing …
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Purpose – Many established trading companies have had considerable capital value locked into their operational properties. These properties have been identified as producing lower returns on invested capital than core business activities. Consequently, there has been a growing trend for the...
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outsourced services are security and catering. The most common driver for outsourcing was the necessity to gain quality services …
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As businesses struggle to lower cost and grow revenues, outsourcing initiatives are underway in many small, medium, and … large global companies. Outsourcing strategies are considered by many as a “silver bullet” to resolve organizational … devising, deploying, and maintaining outsourcing relationships, for many these benefits remain elusive. The following article …
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outsourcing technology, nor were they giving much thought to the longer term implications of their diminishing capabilities to …
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considered the outsourcing decision‐making problem in a static environment using analytical expression by means of a variable … fraction of demand. Next, the authors extended the scope of this problem by considering outsourcing decisions in a dynamic … outsourcing perspective, the authors suggested the adoption of a more scientific approach in computation of fraction of demand to …
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The adoption of third party logistics is becoming widespread in the industry. Discusses various definitions of third party logistics and the theoretical background for the development of third party arrangements, including both transaction cost theory and network theory. A theoretical framework...
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