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
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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
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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?
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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 […]
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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
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