1. Introduction
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is one of an international bank in the world. RBS is a bank that provide a personal banking, investments, wealth management, loans, and it a commercial banking services from RBS Malaysia. So, to make sure that all the transaction are happen they must check all the transaction by log in their personal account. They also can ask or check their account through website, email, or just call the call centre or the bank hotline. This RBS now are open in many country around the world. That makes the bank are have good relationship with others country.
Nowadays, the technology are increases rapidly. The RBS also improving in their bank technology. As example. RBS created a website. This website may control the relationship between the bank and their customers. To make their relationship a good, the website will produce a forum or site to easy the customer to give their opinion, suggestion or to tell their problem that they having when using RBS bank account. As an international bank, it need to improve their products and services or technology in getting the customer stratifications. It also need to make customer trust to using RBS.
Competitive advantage is mean a firm’s ability to create value in a way that is rivals cannot. While outsourcing is a business strategy that moves some of an organization’s functions, activities, processes, and also decision responsibility from an organization to outside providers. This outsourcing is done by doing negotiating contract agreements with a vendor who takes the responsibility for the quality, customer services, production process, and people management of the function. So, to allow organizations to focus on their core business and create a competitive advantage, the organization must use outsourcing. Outsourcing is use to reduce operational costs. However, outsourcing have a lacking or disadvantages such as quality risk, quality service, language barriers, labor issues, and legal compliance and security.
2. Summary of the issue
The Royal Bank of Scotland or RBS is a large international banking and financial services company. RBS has servers over 30 million of customers in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia. RBS have been open at many country around the world. RBS is a bank that providing bank account, personal banking, online banking, saving, credit card, loans and many more.
Based on the article by Hannah Furness, RBS having a problem on the computer glitch that makes millions of customers unable to access their account.
Outsourcing simply means acquiring services from an external organization instead of using internal resources (Butler, 2000). By using outsourced resources, organizations can gain a competitive advantage by utilizing contingent staff to accomplish strategic goals without incurring the fixed overhead. By focusing on the leading edge and highly specialized skill sets, outsourcing providers can often offer higher quality services, or at a lower price than the client organization. Typical reasons for outsourcing go beyond simple contingent staffing. Outsourcing providers are able to maintain economies of scale with regard to specialization (...
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Outsourcing is a technique for companies to reassign specific responsibilities to external entities. There are several motivations for outsourcing including organizational, improvement, cost, and revenue advantages (Ghodeswar & Vaidyanathan, 2008).
The Chief Executive of RBS, Stephen Hester defended outsources company and said that there was no evidence that the problem is due from company outsources. The error is occurred after the software upgraded to the bank’s computer system last Wednesday, and it affects 17 million customers. Although the problem can be resolved on Friday, but RBS has a backlog of more than 100 million transactions that were not paid in or out of the bank.
The competitive advantage that can be gained by the companies through IS/IT outsourcing is Improved business processes. IT outsourcing an identification method and rigor of IT resources that can help the business run smoothly. It can control the development of the project budget and expenditures. It also can promote information technology investment proposals from outside and provide skilled individuals in managing IT resources available in the company. Through these companies are able to provide appropriate information and report to the company. This can give competitive advantage to the company. For example, expenditures, progress, and issues the company can be viewed and controlled.
The expanding global market has created both staggering wealth for some and the promise of it for others. Business is more competitive than ever before, and every business, financial or product-based, regardless of size or international presence is obligated to operate as efficiently as possible. A major factor in that efficient operation is to take advantage of every opportunity to maximize profits. Many multinational organizations have used derivatives for years in financial risk management activities. These same actions that can protect multinational organizations against interest rate futures and currency fluctuations can be used to create profits for those same organizations.
Initially the bank’s core banking system was product oriented, but the need of the hour was to develop a customer oriented system, because the challenge is to build customer loyalty, cross sell, and enhance repeat business.
In April 2008, RBS had already asked the investors to pump in £12 Billion after unveiling another £5.9bn of credit crunch write-downs. The bank says in a statement that it has marked down £5.9bn of assets and dividends for 2008 will also be cut. Britain’s biggest rights issue also heaps pressure on chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin but he stays adamant and dismisses any talks of him resigning and failure.
and 39 other countries. RBC’s strategic goal is to be the undisputed leader in financial services in Canada. RBC’s vision is to be amongst the world’s most trusted and successful financial institutions. RBC’s strategy is to focus on markets and client segments where it can apply its strengths to win business, deepen relationship with clients and communities, and create shareholder value. From RBC Annual Report 2015 http://annualreports.rbc.com/ar2015/#by-the-numbers RBC has a diversified business mix with 52% of earnings coming from Personal & Commercial Banking and 23% from the Capital markets segment. Approximately 62% of revenue is generated in Canada, 21% in the U.S. and 17% from all other countries (Exhibit 3). From a business standpoint, Enterprise Risk’s main priorities are: •
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