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The business value of operating core insurance solutions on the cloud

IBM Business Partners

Insurers are also struggling with high, mostly fixed costs and the complexities of maintaining legacy systems, which makes current variable cost-based alternatives more attractive. Insurers want to shift from fixed to variable, “pay-as-you-go” operating costs.

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Business process reengineering (BPR) examples

IBM Services

The methodology gained prominence with the publication of a 1990 article in the Harvard Business Review, “Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliterate,” by Michael Hammer, and the 1993 book by Hammer and James Champy, Reengineering the Corporation. In all, agents’ pre-and-post-call workloads were reduced by 30%.

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How Strategic Procurement Can Give You a Competitive Advantage

Planergy Software

Book a Live Demo. With an effective and efficient procurement process, you can quickly deliver cannibal cost Improvement while enhancing supply chain agility. As a result, you can reduce costs while producing more for less to give yourself a competitive advantage. Book a Live Demo. Cristian Maradiaga. King Ocean.

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How Profitability Ratio Analysis Can Help Your Business

Planergy Software

Book a Live Demo. Net profit margin, also known as net margin, calculates company profitability after the cost of goods sold, operating expenses, and interest and tax expenses have been deducted. For example, if your gross margin is good, but net profit is suffering, take a look at your overhead and associated operating costs.

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Tail Spend Analysis: What Is It, How To Perform It, and the Benefits

Planergy Software

Cristian Maradiaga King Ocean Book a Live Demo Download a free copy of "Indirect Spend Guide", to learn: Where the best opportunities for savings are in indirect spend. Introduction To Tail Spend Analysis Tail spend analysis examines a company’s spending patterns and identifies opportunities to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

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Top Healthcare Trends: Why Offshore Staff and Outsourcing is Enabling Growth

AS White Global

The drivers for this growth are the trends that we are seeing now and in the years to come: the demand for advanced facilities to address the patient’s needs, the need to reduce costs, the increase for R&D, and more stringent rules from regulatory and government agencies. More patient-centric options.

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10 Examples of Bad Outsourcing and How to Avoid Them

Magellan Solutions

Due to the numerous advantages outsourcing has to offer, including reduced costs and access to a larger talent pool, an increasing number of companies are outsourcing their software development needs to outsourcing companies. Therefore, efforts to outsource should not be seen as a strategy to save operating costs.