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Industry analysts: a new world order is already coming

Industry analysts: a new world order is already coming

By Phil Fersht on January 6, 2014

The future of analysts is about providing clients the experiences they need to be smarter and more effective at what they do, not selling them something pre-packaged that everyone else already has

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, CRM and Marketing, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, PaaS, SaaS, SMAC and Big Data, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing

The healthcare industry gets some Austin power

The healthcare industry gets some Austin power

By Phil Fersht on December 23, 2013

It’s those industries experiencing intrinsic and structural change to their very foundations, which are priming themselves for radical transformation of their business models, and there is no greater example in today’s environment than the US healthcare sector

Posted in Business | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, Global Business Services, Healthcare and Outsourcing, HfSResearch.com Homepage, Industry-specific Outsourcing, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Outsourcing Advisors, Outsourcing and Politics, Outsourcing Heros, SMAC and Big Data, Sourcing Change Management, The Future of Outsourcing

Naomi Bloom: HRO needs to focus on business analyst services, not call center/manual processing

Naomi Bloom: HRO needs to focus on business analyst services, not call center/manual processing

By Phil Fersht on December 18, 2013

It will be fascinating to see if the larger SIs and/or HRO providers will be able to craft just the right mix of quality and cost-effectiveness to be successful in delivering much smaller, less labor-intensive and more tool-based implementation and post-implementation HR services.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Outsourcing, HR Strategy, HRO, IaaS and BPaaS, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Naomi Bloom, Outsourcing Advisors, Outsourcing Heros, Outsourcing Vendors, PaaS, Phil Fersht, SaaS, SMAC and Big Data, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing

Time to inoculate your firm against early-onset Zombieism… by coming to the Blueprint Sessions 3.0 this December

Time to inoculate your firm against early-onset Zombieism… by coming to the Blueprint Sessions 3.0 this December

By Phil Fersht on November 11, 2013

When  Zombieism takes its grip on enterprise operations, many fail to realize… until it’s too late.  In fact, many of you reading this may already be exhibiting signs of early-0nset Zombieism and immediate inoculation is imperative… But never fear folks, as the forthcoming BluePrint Sessions 3.0 in New York this December are specifically designed to […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Absolutely Meaningless Comedy, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cloud Computing, Current Affairs, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Finance & Accounting BPO, Financial Services Sourcing Strategies, Global Business Services, Healthcare and Outsourcing, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Outsourcing, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, Industry-specific Outsourcing, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Advisors, Outsourcing and Politics, Outsourcing and Technology, Outsourcing Events, Outsourcing Heros, Outsourcing Research, Outsourcing Vendors, PaaS, procurement, SaaS, Security and Risk, SMAC and Big Data, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Sourcing Locations, Sustainabiity & Corporate Social Responsibility, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing, The Internet of Things | 1 Response

Traditional outsourcing advisory is dead.

Traditional outsourcing advisory is dead.

By Phil Fersht on October 21, 2013

When the world’s number 1 management thinker, Clayton Christensen, writes about Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption, you know it’s officially game-over for the way consultants have traditionally delivered effort-based high-cost projects for wizening clients.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, Global Business Services, HfS Surveys: All our Survey Posts, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IaaS and BPaaS, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Advisors, PaaS, SaaS, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing

Accenture fires a nuclear warhead at the sourcing and procurement market

Accenture procures procurement’s prize property: Procurian

By Phil Fersht on October 3, 2013

On a Sourcing Mission – Accenture’s Mike Salvino adds Procurian to his previous Ariba services acquisition You know when a market’s hotting up when the leading specialists start getting plucked by the top tier, and Accenture today made a massive $375m statement of intent in the procurement and supply chain management BPO industry by acquiring […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Accenture, BPO, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Current Affairs, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, HfSResearch.com Homepage, Industry-specific Outsourcing, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing and Technology, Outsourcing Vendors, procurement, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing | 1 Response

The inverted U - death by a thousand applications

The inverted U – death by a thousand applications

By Sig Rinde on October 2, 2013

Productivity is a good thing, it translates to more and better results using less resources. That way it even makes for a very “green” argument, plus it has a decidedly positive effect on corporate profits and government budgets. We obviously want that. But productivity is a combination of two parameters: It’s a result of both […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Current Affairs, economy, Electronic medical record, enterprise software, norway, Peter Drucker, State of the world | 1 Response

Can Salesforce and Workday’s hook-up genuinely hurt the SAP and Oracle empire?

Can Salesforce and Workday’s hook-up genuinely hurt the SAP and Oracle empire?

By Phil Fersht on September 24, 2013

With a quarter-of-a-trillion dollars a year being plowed into integrating and managing SAP and Oracle, are the SaaS upstarts truly ready to integrate multiple cloud apps at this type of scale to challenge the status quo?

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud Computing, CRM and Marketing, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, Evan Quinn, fersht, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IaaS and BPaaS, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, it Services, netsuite, oracle, PaaS, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, SFDC, sfwday, SMAC and Big Data, social networking, The Future of Outsourcing, workday

Are you “crowding it” in NYC this week? HfS has some free tickets…

Are you “crowding it” in NYC this week? HfS has some free tickets…

By Phil Fersht on September 16, 2013

Carl Esposti is CEO of Massolution We got some face time with flamboyant Massolution CEO, Carl Esposti (and founder of the Crowdsourcing.org community platform) about next week’s first-ever crowdsourcing & crowdfunding conference. Phil Fersht, CEO HfS Research: Good morning, Carl, we’ve been keeping tabs on your firm’s development over the last few years in the enterprise crowdsourcing and […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Current Affairs, HfSResearch.com Homepage, Innovation in Outsourcing, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Advisors, Outsourcing Events, Outsourcing Heros, Security and Risk

Concentrix buys its way into the customer experience management Winner’s Circle

Concentrix buys its way into the customer experience management Winner’s Circle

By Phil Fersht on September 12, 2013

Concentrix’s investors, SYNEXX, were clearly so impressed with IBM’s performance to reach the Winners Circle for customer experience management, they wanted a piece of the action for themselves

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, CRM and Marketing, Current Affairs, enter, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Outsourcing, Industry-specific Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Outsourcing Vendors, SMAC and Big Data, The Future of Outsourcing

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