Category Archives: Outsourcing

New EU Data Protection Proposals: what you need to know

Today’s blog post is courtesy of my friends and colleagues Clive Gringras and Claire Walker who have published a helpful guide to the new European Data Protection proposals. “Today, 25 January 2012, the European Commission unveiled its proposals for far reaching changes … Continue reading

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Smart meters: intelligently connecting to a lower carbon future

I am awaiting with interest the response of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Ofgem to their consultation on implementing smart metering in the UK. In a joint open letter sent on 9 December they promised a detailed … Continue reading

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Financial technology, cloud, mobile data and social networking will drive deals and valuation multiples in technology sector

As a new blogger, site statistics are a source of endless fascination.  They are however useful – my post on TMT valuation multiples seems to have been wildly popular, so I thought it worthwhile to trawl through some other reports … Continue reading

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Happy (slightly belated) 101st birthday to the father of outsourcing

You might think that outsourcing is relatively recent – dreamt up in the 1980s as a way for hardware manufacturers to move out of one-off box sales and into lovely long-term recurring revenue contracts or for industrial companies to move … Continue reading

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