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Accenture, Cognizant, Wipro and Infosys are the marketing and digital customer experience services front runners

Accenture, Cognizant, Wipro and Infosys are the marketing and digital customer experience services front runners

By Phil Fersht on December 9, 2014

HfS unveils the first industry Blueprint that looks at Marketing Operations and Digital Customer Experience Management Services

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, CRM and Marketing, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, Global Business Services, HfS Blueprint Results, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, mobility, PaaS, SaaS, social networking, Talent in Sourcing, The As-a-Service Economy

The Twelve Tenets of Trust

The Twelve Tenets of Trust

By Phil Fersht on December 8, 2014

One core element is needed for enterprises to get through the next 12 months, let along the next 12 years: Trust

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Outsourcing Events, Talent in Sourcing, The As-a-Service Economy

A Rare (For Me) Commentary On Very Small Market US Payroll Tech

A Rare (For Me) Commentary On Very Small Market US Payroll Tech

By Naomi Bloom on December 8, 2014

Background This post was inspired by a recent discussion among the Enterprise Irregulars.   It began when one of our members called our attention to a recent story about ZenPayroll’s  impressive roster of successful Silly Valley (my term for the group think or herd instinct often found in the Bay Area) entrepreneurs who had become investors.  His inquiry: “Hyperbole […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Enterprise Irregulars, payroll

The raw truth about outsourcing: 83% of outsourcing customers would not go back, despite three-in-four failing to achieve value beyond cost

The raw truth about outsourcing: 83% of outsourcing customers would not go back, despite three-in-four failing to achieve value beyond cost

By Phil Fersht on December 2, 2014

Most enterprises are pleased they moved into an outsourcing model, but have recognized they need to make significant changes to the way they manage their service provider relationships

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, IT service management, Managed services, Outsourcing, Outsourcing Events, service provider

The Ten Tenets Driving the As-a-Service Economy

The Ten Tenets Driving the As-a-Service Economy

By Phil Fersht on November 7, 2014

As the As-a-Service Economy continues to emerge and evolve, it is the belief of HfS that the model will follow ten key tenets

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, PaaS, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The As-a-Service Economy, The Internet of Things

Why some providers are grimly hanging onto the labor-arbitrage model

Why some providers are grimly hanging onto the labor-arbitrage model

By Phil Fersht on November 4, 2014

A new breed of provider has to emerge, which can disrupt the legacy labor-based model

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, HfS Surveys: Technology in BPO 2014, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IaaS and BPaaS, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Advisors, PaaS, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The As-a-Service Economy

Why Cloud-centric services are critical to the survival of service providers in today’s As-a-Service Economy

Why Cloud-centric services are critical to the survival of service providers in today’s As-a-Service Economy

By Phil Fersht on October 27, 2014

Cloud-centric delivery is the only true direction service providers can take, if they want to be around in another couple of years

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged avendus capital, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, ned may, PaaS, SaaS

More hope less fear, please - Digital is not only changing the way we work, it's improving it

More hope less fear, please – Digital is not only changing the way we work, it’s improving it

By Phil Fersht on October 6, 2014

The world of work’s just so much more interesting and rewarding today that it was even five years’ ago

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Enterprise Irregulars, HfS Surveys: All our Survey Posts, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, mobility, PaaS, procurement, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing

1093 research influencers have spoken: HfS leads the analyst industry for growing influence

1093 research influencers have spoken: HfS leads the analyst industry for growing influence

By Phil Fersht on October 1, 2014

And finally, the results of the Analyst Value Survey, which canvassed the views of 1093 enterprises, analysts and vendor consumers of research, have been released. This is – by some margin – the largest study ever conducted to gauge the influence and value of the industry technology analyst firms, and even the most optimistic followers […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Outsourcing Heros, Talent in Sourcing

Have most analysts completely given up doing research?

Have most analysts completely given up doing research?

By Phil Fersht on September 24, 2014

Authors: Phil Fersht and Ray Wang:  Industry Analysts who still give a shit (This is a collaboration and represents our individual points of view and not necessarily our employers. Oh wait, that’s us…. moving on…) We called it three years’ ago and we can now officially proclaim that the industry once known as “research” is […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Confusing Outsourcing Information, Enterprise Irregulars, gartner, HfSResearch.com Homepage, Industry analyst, Outsourcing Heros

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