By Phil Fersht on August 19, 2013
When vendors, particularly hardware and software vendors, were running around and talking about ‘Cloud this and Cloud that’, and ‘Big Data this and Big Data that’, we felt they were missing the point, because they weren’t driving conversion. Whereas the SMAC Stack, when it is integrated, it does start to drive business solutions. – Malcolm Frank, Cognizant, […]
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By Phil Fersht on August 14, 2013
We got a few minutes with Shibu, CEO of Infosys, to find out what’s going on under the Infosys hood these days
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By Phil Fersht on August 12, 2013
Cognizant’s Malcolm Frank talks to HfS Research’s Phil Fersht about the Cognizant growth story and how the firm is trying to stay ahead of the game
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By Phil Fersht on June 3, 2013
It is my personal belief that the likes of HP and CSC will be sweating from the oncoming threat from the Austin-based firm’s $8.5 billion services arm in the not-too-distant future, not to mention some of the flagging Indian firms struggling to rediscover their mojoes.
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, Current Affairs, Dell, Enterprise Irregulars, Healthcare and Outsourcing, HfS, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, Industry-specific Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Michael Dell, Outsourcing Heros, Outsourcing Vendors, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing
By Phil Fersht on May 28, 2013
Lars leaving so quickly symbolizes SAP’s struggle, in my mind, to change its culture and approach to disruptive business models. The economics of the cloud cannot print anywhere near as much money for our German friends as the current legacy ecosystem of clunky enterprises, whose IT managers simply do not want to invite change or disruption. If your clients don’t want to change, why should you?
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By Phil Fersht on March 1, 2013
If you’ve ever had some to read Freakonomics, you’ll know how excited we are to announce that co-author Steven Dubner has agreed to speak at our dreamSource event this spring.
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By Phil Fersht on February 21, 2013
It’s never too late to find redemption… So if you haven’t been fired yet, here’s how to avoid it happening… Phil Fersht (HfS Research): So, Lee, we talk about more of a fluid evolving outsourcing relationship. How can we get there? Why is this industry stuck in the weeds in doing things and the way […]
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By Phil Fersht on February 19, 2013
For those of you attending our dreamSource summit this Spring, Lee and I will co-host a session entitled “If outsourcing were an employee, it would be fired”. Lee, who today has built and now leads shared services for heathcare provider, Ascension Health, caught up with us last week to talk about the session and why we called it just that…
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By Phil Fersht on January 11, 2013
We bring together the seven most most prominent sourcing savants to debate publicly the critical challenges facing sourcing today
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By Phil Fersht on November 9, 2012
Welcome back to the Captain Cliff chronicles. And since Part II, we have actually witnessed Cliff speak for a whole hour at an outsourcing conference and manage not to mention the “O” word once. That’s quite a feat, so let’s find out why…
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