Basman | Explore: IT Outsourcing

Starting in January 2007, Siemens will bundle its worldwide IT solutions, IT services and software activities. The activities of Siemens Business Services (SBS) will be pooled into one Group including four software development entities Program and System Engineering (PSE) and Siemens Information Systems Ltd. (SISL), Development Innovation and Projects (DIP) and the Business Innovation Center (BIC). Given its tasks and the geographic distribution of employees, Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS) will be handled from Munich and Vienna.

Dr. Christoph Kollatz, currently Group President of SBS, will be the Group President. A key prerequisite for the creation of the Group is the rigorous continuation and the successful completion of the comprehensive turnaround program.

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Accenture today announced a number of appointments to its executive leadership team, effective Sept. 1, including new group chief executives for its Business Consulting and Outsourcing growth platforms and four of its five operating groups.

“As we begin our new fiscal year on Sept. 1, these appointments will help power Accenture’s growth and build on the success we’ve achieved over the past several years,” said William D. Green, Accenture’s chief executive officer. “When you combine the expertise and fresh perspective that the newest members of our executive leadership bring to the table with the deep experience of our current leadership team, Accenture is poised for even greater success in the years ahead.”

New leaders for two of the company’s three growth platforms, through which Accenture develops its knowledge capital; builds world-class skills and capabilities; and creates, acquires and manages key assets central to the development of solutions for clients, are:

Kevin M. Campbell: Group Chief Executive–Outsourcing
In his new role, Mr. Campbell, 46, has ultimate responsibility for the development and delivery of Accenture’s application outsourcing, infrastructure outsourcing and business process outsourcing services and solutions. He most recently served as Senior Managing Director–Business Process Outsourcing, responsible for developing new areas of opportunity for Accenture’s BPO capabilities; he also had operational and client management responsibility for BPO. Mr. Campbell rejoined Accenture in 2005 from Hewitt Associates, where he was market strategy and development leader of Hewitt’s HR outsourcing business. Mr. Campbell was previously with Accenture from 1982 until 1999. He succeeds Joellin Comerford, who will work closely with Mr. Campbell through the transition process. Additionally, Ms. Comerford will take on strategic assignments in the execution of Accenture’s strategic growth agenda as well as work directly on Accenture’s largest and most complex assignments.

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HP today announced that Pablo Sanchez-Lozano has been named senior vice president and general manager of its Managed Services business unit within HP Services.

With more than 15 years in HP Services, Sanchez-Lozano, 40, brings extensive global business management, sales engagement and finance expertise to his new position. He will report to Steve Smith, senior vice president of HP Services.

Since 2004, Sanchez-Lozano has served as the vice president and general manager of HP's Managed Services organization for the Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA) region, where he led the signing of many noteworthy deals, including KONE, Renault and West LB AG.

Sanchez-Lozano also created and led HP's strategic outsourcing sales engagement team for the EMEA region, which won significant outsourcing contracts with accounts such as Bank of Ireland as well as a key alliance with British Telecom.

"Pablo's extensive experience in HP Services is an asset that our clients will appreciate," said Smith. "We are thrilled that he will be able to hit the ground running to build on our momentum and lead this critical business for HP."

HP's Managed Services organization provides companies with IT and application outsourcing services and solutions to manage their IT environments. It also provides business process outsourcing capabilities specific to finance and administration processes. In fiscal year 2005, the business unit saw year-over-year growth of 24 percent.

A new study by LogicaCMG, based on a survey conducted by IDC, released today finds that more than one third (36%) of major outsourcing deals that included redeployment or a transfer of personnel run into problems because organisations fail to understand the importance of the ‘social factor’. The ‘social factor’ takes into account internal communications, redeployment within the IT department, the transfer of personnel to the service providers and the provision of a clear roadmap for staff about the future of their employment. The survey by IDC looked at the attitudes of 200 senior decision-makers in large companies in France, the UK and Germany towards success factors in outsourcing and the issues that lead to termination, cancellation or non-renewal of contracts.

The study found that the two main selection criteria when choosing a service provider remain price and technical skills, but that trust and the ability of service providers to communicate effectively with employees are increasingly important. In the case of application management in particular, maintaining critical know-how and skills in-house is essential and the question of personnel transfers becomes even more important.

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Capgemini Deutschland hat einen ex-HP'ler eingestellt und meldet:

Zum 1. Mai 2006 hat Jörg Otto (38) die Leitung des Business Development bei der Outsourcing-Sparte von Capgemini in Zentraleuropa übernommen. In dieser Funktion ist er verantwortlich für die IT-Outsourcing Vertriebsaktivitäten in Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz sowie Osteuropa.

Zuletzt war Jörg Otto bei Hewlett Packard als Vertriebsleiter Deutschland für Managed Services und Business Process Outsourcing verantwortlich. Davor bekleidete er bei dem amerikanischen Technologie-Konzern verschiedene Account- und Vertriebsfunktionen. Er studierte technische Betriebswirtschaft an der Fachhochschule Offenburg.

Das Personalkarussell dreht sich wieder. Das Powerhouse HP baut seit Anfang des Jahres massiv Personal auf allen Ebenen und Bereichen ab. Durch rigide Restrukturierungs- und Replacementmassnahmen suchen vom Servicetechiker bis zum Manager ehemalige HP'ler neue Jobs. HP streicht bis Ende 2006 international rund 6.000 Stellen davon in Deutschland 1.500 Stellen.