Outsourcing News

The Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) market is relatively new and rapidly evolving, with a multitude of providers. Like many markets, it will probably consolidate over time, which means careful buyers will consider which providers are likely to be around for the long haul. This adds to the usual challenges of evaluating a crowded playing field, especially for buyers with relatively little LPO experience, but analyst reports that evaluate the market and buying process can help. One such report is the recently-released “Sourcing Prism” report, Legal Service Outsourcing Edition, published by the ValueNotes Sourcing Practice (”VN”), which has been tracking the LPO market for several years. The report rates 41 LPOs and helps buyers understand key selection criteria. Integreon is pleased to be highly rated across all key criteria, ranking as 1 of just 3 “Pacesetters” identified. This post summarizes the Sourcing Prism; readers who would like a complimentary copy can register for it here

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Choosing the Right Legal Process Outsourcer

I’ve been really busy the last couple of weeks and I haven’t been able to blog at all, but now I’m back and I wanted to tell you about some of the coolest stuff I’ve found online last week. Free Tools to Improve Your Site My friend and social media expert Catherine Daar sent me this really cool link. Thank you! The Paradox of Choice Being free and having a lot of options to choose from is great, isn’t it? According to Barry Schwartz, a psychologist who happens to be a terrific speaker, more choices could lead to less satisfaction and happiness.

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Some Seriously Cool Stuff

It was a US President who first said ‘it’s the economy stupid’ when asked what the top topic from a long list of issues would be most important to voters. If you substitute the role of a voter with that of a user, then the answer to the same question – what is most important to them – might well be, ‘it’s the data stupid!’ Yet bizarrely data is the one topic that we still have the least clarity about, particularly with respect to what and how we will be dealing with it in the more complex environments beyond IT applications and structured databases. We have clarity, or at least emerging clarity, about the issues of computational power, networking connectivity, and even integration, by the cloud, internet and web respectively, but exactly what do we have on data? Lots of promises around how semantics will change the game, and as part of this there is no doubt that semantic events are getting more interesting in establishing how to manage data created for, and consumed by, human eyeballs, not applications and computers. But is this enough to address the changes we are experiencing around the explosion in use of the web, and the road into ‘everything and everyone connected in the cloud’ based on everything as a ‘service’

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It’s the data stupid!

A number of outsourcing companies have sold or are now selling their subsidiaries after less than stellar performance these past few months. In what had been previously hailed as the need for diversity in outsourcing offerings, some companies are now realizing that they may have bitten off more than they can chew. The most recent company to announce the sale of a subsidiary is Michigan-based company TechTeam Global (NASDAQ:TEAM), who announced the sale of TechTeam Government Solutions last week. The company announced on the 4th of June that they are selling TechTeam Government Solutions for $59 million in cash to construction and engineering firm, Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC), in a move that was greeted with surprise by the market. According to Morgan Joseph & Co analyst Richard Paget , the deal was not the kind of needle mover that people expected from the company

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Outsourcing Companies Sell Subsidiaries in a Bid to Specialize Rather than Diversify

Whether you’re working from your home office, the local coffee shop, or the back room of your brick and mortar store, you want to find ways to do things better, faster, and, well, just plain cooler.  If you’re looking for ways to take your business operations high-tech, look no further.  Here we’ve listed some great

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5 Cool Gadgets to Keep Your Business on the Cutting Edge

Getting visitors to your Facebook page isn’t that hard.  Using basic Social Media techniques, connecting with people – on Facebook as well as Twitter and anywhere else you can – will get people visiting your page.  Once they get there though, the trick is to get them to keep coming back.  Facebook, like all social

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How to Make Your Facebook Page Work!

At some point, just about everyone says yes to something to which they would rather have said no.  Why is that?  Maybe it’s part of our makeup.  Since childhood, we’ve all hated to hear, “NO.”  And our parents didn’t like saying it much more than we liked hearing it.  That’s why they used phrases like, Check it out : Payday advance services for fast cash needs.

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Rescue Your Productivity: Just Say ‘No’ – More Often

Every now and then, a product, service or program comes along that really needs to be reviewed and promoted – not because it’s a paid review or affiliated site, but because it’s just outstanding.  Even though this is a paid review, that’s definitely the case with EWA Private Network.  EWA, which stands for Eagle Web

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Affiliate Network Review: EWA Private Network

Everywhere you look these days it seems you find blog posts, news articles, tweets, updates, comments, etc., etc. about how business is so different now; about “new media”; and about the “new economy”.  There is also an abundance of information about “communities”, “networks”, and “social networking”, and how entrepreneurs can use these newfangled things to

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The Internet Has Changed Everything – Or Has It?

Looking for cool applications to help you make your blog or site all it can be?  We’ve found some good ones!  From ways to make sure your site looks good no matter who’s looking at it, to protecting your privacy and your content, these tools are all easy to use and either free or very

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8 Really Cool Web-Based Tools for Bloggers

Now hold on… Before you think I’ve lost my mind, notice the title doesn’t say “Don’t do SEO” or “SEO Doesn’t Matter.”  In fact, spending quality time on SEO is anything but a waste of time.  It’s no secret that search engines are the primary source people use to find your site, and it’s also

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Quit Wasting Time on SEO

If you have information you want to deliver to any group of people – customers, prospects, colleagues, etc. – conducting webinars is a great way to do it.  In fact, webinars offer tremendous advantages over many other delivery methods.  Webinars can be offered for free to get people interested in what you have to offer;

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5 Steps to Conducting a Wildly Successful Webinar

In our recent Online Employment Situation Summary (a companion to the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly Employment Situation Summary), we took a look at the $8.6M worth of online work performed last month to discover the types of work most requested by hiring employers. While certain technical work still rules …

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Marketing Work Joins Top In-Demand Categories

Contractors new to online work  often find it easier to begin with a small, contained assignment rather than a hundred-hour undertaking or an ongoing gig for 15 or 20 hours of work every week.  On the flip side, employers looking for the superstar worker who can lead a major programming …

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Fixed-Price Finesse: The Test Run

Most freelancers who’ve been at it for awhile will tell you that the way to overcome the ‘feast or famine’ cycle of freelancing is to build ongoing client relationships. Sure, juggling one-off projects adds variety to your days, but it can also lead to some nasty dry spells, not to …

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Turn Short-Term Assignments into Long-Term Gigs

Landing clients may be the most challenging part of freelancing — especially if you are new to contract work. We know the competition for online work is fierce, so the first impression you make with your potential client had better be a good one. When you see a job available, it’s tempting …

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Landing the Job: Present a Complete Application

Applying and interviewing for jobs just got faster and easier under the new “Job Applications.” No more hunting for interview threads! Your communications with the buyer are now embedded in the new Job Application page. Reply to buyers, ask questions and view the job description all in one place.

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A Better Way to Manage your Job Applications

Yesterday, in reaction to growing criticism from users concerning privacy controls, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded with this blog post, which outlines the new privacy settings that will be rolled out over the next few weeks. This arrives as a follow up to the apology that …

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Facebook Changes: A Brief Primer for Businesses

You finally found a freelancer or contractor who “gets” your business values, understands what you need, and delivers on promises. Wouldn’t it be nice to hang onto him or her? Nobody wants to lose the workers who really make outsourcing worthwhile. But good freelancers are just that: free. Free to move on, free …

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10 Steps to Keep Your Freelancer

In the first five months of this year, there were about 15 deals worth $537 million as against $642 million in the whole of last year. Pipe Investments were in decline over the past two years after it peaked out in 2008 when a record $3.3 billion worth of deals were reported. Several top PEs like Blackstone, Bain Capital, Templeton, New Silk Route, IFC and Apollo Asia are among the players that made PIPE investments this year

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PE boom in public equity no more a PIPE dream