Deal Radar 2010: Fieldglass

Deal Radar continues its coverage of the changing labor landscape with Fieldglass, which provides a SaaS platform, InSite, that helps global 2000 corporations acquire and manage contingent or contract workers, outsourced services, and direct hires so that firms can better understand and use their workforces.

Deal Radar 2009: uTest, Massachusetts

This blog has covered various aspects of outsourcing in some depth; today we turn to a business model that is at the crossroads of the older outsourcing model and the growing preference for on-demand and SaaS services. uTest uses crowdsourcing for its customers to test their Web, desktop, and mobile applications through a large community

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Deal Radar 2009: FTRANS

FTRANS provides accounts receivable outsourcing and credit management solutions. It helps small companies manage their accounts receivables so they can have greater access to working capital and increase their cash on hand. The Atlanta-based company focuses on outsourcing the accounts receivables (A/R) of small and mid-size businesses.

Outsourcing Your Back Office

By Guest Authors Richard Hooker and Steve Monas [Richard and Steve wrap up their series of excerpts from their book “Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible” with a post on the advantages and concerns of outsourcing the many tasks that any business’s back office takes care of.] A business’ internal capabilities are the stuff that strategy

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Outsourcing: What It Takes

By Guest Authors Richard Hooker and Steve Monas [Last week, Richard and Steve explained why businesses of all sizes should outsource and stressed that organization is a critical part of outsourcing. Today’s post covers more skills entrepreneurs need to manage a successful outsourcing relationship.] As in every other aspect of starting a business, your biggest

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The Virtual Org Chart

By Guest Authors Richard Hooker and Steve Monas [The series, which started with “The Outsourcing Imperative”, continues with a discussion of what needs to be planned before and while working with an outsourcer.] Not only does outsourcing allow entrepreneurs to build full-scale enterprises, building a virtual organization, at least in part, is an absolute requirement to be competitive

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The Outsourcing Imperative

By Guest Authors Richard Hooker and Steve Monas [In this series, Richard and Steve use excerpts from their book “Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible” to explain why even startups on shoestring budgets should outsource some of their business functions.] We live in a brave new world in which all the tools to build a full-scale

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Accenture: Two Options Ahead

Although it has traditionally been a nimble player in a competitive market, Accenture again stumbled as it ended the first half of a rather depressed fiscal year. Not only were the Q2 results slightly lower than the company’s outlook, but Accenture also reduced its outlook for the entire fiscal year.