By Phil Fersht on May 29, 2014
Close to a third of enterprises are increasing the offshore component with their service providers, and a fifth with their own shared services
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By Phil Fersht on May 27, 2014
Our industry has started to lose the plot with the amount of buzz terms spewing around
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By Phil Fersht on May 8, 2014
HfS releases the 2014 Cloud Infrastructure Services Blueprint Report: Accenture, Amazon, HP, IBM and Wipro lead the pack
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By Phil Fersht on April 30, 2014
BPO is just at the beginning of a much more dynamic phase of its existence and it at least three years’ away from being put to bed.
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By Phil Fersht on March 25, 2014
It may be harder for some of the traditional providers to fight their way back into the services game than the Indian majors to continue their surge
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By Phil Fersht on March 5, 2014
Even back in ’79 the world was already beginning to zone in on the power of automation
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By Phil Fersht on February 18, 2014
Our new “Technology in BPO” study reveals that this industry is on the brink of a significant, radical overhaul to its very core value proposition
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By Phil Fersht on January 12, 2014
While several folks make valid arguments why GBS may be a pipe-dream for their own organization (or some of their clients’ organizations), we believe they are missing the big picture
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By Phil Fersht on December 30, 2013
In 2014, ambitious operations leaders must begin achieve a certain degree of maturity across their operations before they can really address achieving their desired outcomes
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 2014 Predictions, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cloud Computing, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Enterprise Irregulars, GBS 2013 Study, Global Business Services, HfS Surveys: All our Survey Posts, IaaS and BPaaS, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, KPMG LLP, Outsourcing Advisors, Outsourcing Research, PaaS, procurement, SaaS, SMAC and Big Data, Sourcing Change Management, Sourcing Locations, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing
By Phil Fersht on December 6, 2013
Recessions are good times for business leaders who love to focus on containing costs, however, times of recovery are markedly different
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