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
By Phil Fersht on September 17, 2014
Cognizant has upped the ante; now it’s time for the ambitious providers to open their war-chests
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Accenture, Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, cognizant, Enterprise Irregulars, Healthcare and Outsourcing, HfS Surveys: All our Survey Posts, HfS Surveys: State of Outsourcing 2014, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IaaS and BPaaS, ibm, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, PaaS, SaaS, Sourcing Change Management, trizetto
By Phil Fersht on September 3, 2014
We’ve been calling it for seven years now, and finally the chickens are coming home to roost for the outsourcing business: clients are genuinely walking away from outsourcing relationships which provide mediocre value. And, while some savvy providers are sensing the defections with a few notable re-bid wins of late, many still have their heads […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Irregulars, HfS Surveys: All our Survey Posts, HfS Surveys: State of Outsourcing 2014, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Advisors, PaaS, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, Talent in Sourcing
By Phil Fersht on August 21, 2014
The act of “outsourcing” is really only that initial phase of activity where an organization takes a technology/business process or function and transfers the management responsibility over to a third party to ensure the smooth running of said process or operation. Once the outsourced processes are running functionally with the third party, the “outsourcing” is […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, avasant, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cloud Computing, Enlighta, Global Business Services, HfS Blueprint Results, HfSResearch.com Homepage, Hyperos, IaaS and BPaaS, ISG, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, KPMG, Outsourcing Advisors, PaaS, SaaS, Security and Risk, servicenow
By Phil Fersht on August 18, 2014
There needs to be a significant mindset change from both employers and their staff to re-humanize the enterprise
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, PaaS, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing
By Phil Fersht on August 14, 2014
The 2014 Talent Acquisition Services Blueprint: Defining and Sourcing the Talent you need in today’s Digitally-challenged marketplace
Posted in Business | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, HfS Blueprint Results, HfS Research, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR, HR Outsourcing, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Sourcing Change Management, talent, Talent in Sourcing
By Phil Fersht on August 11, 2014
The business world is fundamentally shifting, but do our organizations really need to reinvent their operating models to stay ahead of the curve?
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cloud Computing, digital, Digital Transformation, digitaltransformation, Enterprise Irregulars, Global Business Services, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, mobility, Outsourcing Advisors, PaaS, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The Internet of Things
By Phil Fersht on August 1, 2014
Organizations have been trying to reduce their labor costs for decades, but something feels very different about the new Digital reality in which we operate.
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, Global Business Services, HfS Surveys: All our Survey Posts, HfS Surveys: State of Outsourcing 2014, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, mobility, Outsourcing Advisors, PaaS, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The Internet of Things
By Phil Fersht on July 21, 2014
The services world has already started to change – and those who are only just realizing this may already be too late
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Accenture, BPaaS, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, HfS Surveys: All our Survey Posts, HfS Surveys: State of Outsourcing 2014, HfS Surveys: Technology in BPO 2014, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Mike salvino, operations, PaaS, SaaS, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing
By Phil Fersht on July 17, 2014
Remember the days when standard corporate issue to enterprise staff was the monster-sized Dell laptop that only seemed to be made for the mass-market corporate crowd and needed a huge ugly Targus case to lug it around… and a low-end Blackberry, where the only redeeming feature was brickbreaker that could keep your brain amused […]
Posted in Business | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, mobility, PaaS, SaaS, Security and Risk
