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		<title>Reducing cost of regulatory compliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Zielemans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is not meant for the average company which has to worry about SOX and standard privacy laws. It post is based on my experiences of working for a large international bank which did a lot of outsourcing, but did not know well how to translate the large amount of national and international laws and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mumbai attack increases onshore outsourcing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Zielemans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent bomb attack on Mumbai, killing at least twenty people and wounding more than fifty, is one in a series. According to Wikipedia are “as of 2006, at least 232 of the country’s 608 districts afflicted, at differing intensities, by various insurgent and terrorist movements. In August 2008, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan has said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play checkers and chess when sourcing IT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Zielemans</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Enabling IT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology is everywhere and is becoming of increasing importance to attract and retain consumers and engage with upstream and downstream business partners. It is changing industries, impact the roles of CEO, COO and CIO. Insurance companies are transforming their business model from selling though big, impressive marble decorated buildings and well paid sales men in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Benchmarking of IT obsolete?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 17:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Zielemans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, I was asked to give my opinion on the proposition “when outsourcing is benchmarking required to prevent a failure” by an editor of an IT magazine. My first thought was: of course it is, as including a benchmark clause in a contract was standard practice when I drafted a contract. But then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability: run your data center on paprika’s</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Zielemans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reducing the environmental footprint of information technology has its origin in the Energy Star initiative launched by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1992. Since then many things have changed, including various interesting cross-industry initiatives. ]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a micro-supplier?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Zielemans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The interconnections between companies and their external stakeholders become more intense by the day. The world&#8217;s leading provider of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, ASML, is a company where several hundred  external business partners are very closely integrated in the design, development, integration and servicing of the systems used to make CPU’s, GPU’s, memory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why smaller outsource suppliers have an edge?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Zielemans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy is picking up again and companies are looking for opportunities to grow. Flexibility, innovation and speed to market are shifting to the top of the wish list. This adjustment has not only an impact on the internal organization, but also on the sourcing strategy. A sourcing strategy which focused the last couple of years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation requires a different sourcing approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Zielemans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outsourcing either business or IT activities to improve the organizations capabilities to innovate and speed-to-market may look at first sight a contradiction. Typically outsourcing is used to reduce cost, with standardization and less responsiveness regarding new business demand as a side effect. It has to be efficient and low cost comes typically at a price. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing with Solvency II in mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Zielemans</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[outsource]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outsource requirements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting outsourcing contracts to comply with Solvency II is not rocket science, but requires a certain amount of attention. Here are some practical guidelines.]]></description>
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		<title>Looking at the cloud from different angles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>François Zielemans</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cloud Blogs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept behind cloud computing started off as ‘utility-based computing’, allowing a company to buy CPU cycles, storage and other IT resources. Advances in the area of virtualization and remote access (e.g. Server Based Computing ,HTML5) since then paved the road for more complex services to be delivered by using internet protocols. Not only technicians [...]]]></description>
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