Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Carol Kline, CIO Of TeleTech (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: As I listen to you, there are a number of different thoughts in my mind on the topic of entrepreneurial opportunities. Let me go over those, one by one. One of the current trends is the social Web. It is becoming a powerful phenomenon; there are

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Carol Kline, CIO Of TeleTech (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: So, you have done more on the pure telecommunications side, where there is call routing and such. CK: It’s the ‘contact center’. We are in the contact center business, so it is all the way up and down the stack. If it is about the contact

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Carol Kline, CIO Of TeleTech (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: TeleTech made the shift to private cloud–based architecture seven years ago. What do you think has been the cost impact of this architectural change on your 67 global data center or delivery center configurations?

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Carol Kline, CIO Of TeleTech (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Very interesting! Tell me more about how this private cloud at TeleTech built. Can you talk about which vendors are supporting this initiative? This is a fascinating case study, and to me it sounds like a large-scale infrastructure. Are you running this from a central data center

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Carol Kline, CIO Of TeleTech (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini We have here an interesting cloud adoption use case with generous insights into the world of a large global business process outsourcing (BPO) enterprise, TeleTech, which manages global-scale contact centers. Over the past seven years, through private cloud adoption, TeleTech has not only moved to the next level

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Outsourcing: Evalueserve Interview (Part 9)

By guest author Tony Scott India’s War For Talent Tony: Do you see talent constraints in India creating a problem for staff outsourcing firms? Alok: In India, I think that outsourcing in general is less likely to become saturated because of the labor cost arbitrage issue, and more because in spite of the fact that

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Outsourcing: Evalueserve Interview (Part 8)

By guest author Tony Scott The Future of Outsourcing in India Tony: I don’t know if you have read Sramana Mitra’s article “The Death of Indian Outsourcing”? Alok: Wow, that’s pretty provocative – but no, I haven’t. Tony: She basically said that there are many challenges to the growth of the outsourcing industry, particularly for

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Outsourcing: Evalueserve Interview (Part 1)

By guest author Tony Scott I recently talked with Alok Aggarwal, the chairman and cofounder of Evalueserve, a pioneer in providing knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) services, a term the company coined in 2003. Evalueserve is at the opposite end of the spectrum from typical call center outsourcing companies because its focus is providing customized research

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