Saturday, March 07, 2009

PODCAST: Outsourcing Helps Insurer Attack 80/20, Pursue Innovation

A $1 billion insurance company has sharply reduced its dependence on a brittle 30-year-old mainframe and redeployed many internal IT staffers to new initiatives by outsourcing the hosting, care, and feeding of that mainframe. The three-year project at Harleysville Insurance achieved the top-level goal of shifting big chunks of fixed costs to variable costs and allowed the IT team to focus on higher-value projects.








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[Source: InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs]
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