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Why so many cost-obsessed CEOs will fail if they ignore their supplier management capabilities

Why so many cost-obsessed CEOs will fail if they ignore their supplier management capabilities

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

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, Global Business Services, HfS Surveys: Innovation in BPO, HfS Surveys: State of the Outsourcing 2013, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, Innovation in Outsourcing, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Research, PaaS, procurement, proxima, SaaS, Security and Risk, SMAC and Big Data

Time to inoculate your firm against early-onset Zombieism… by coming to the Blueprint Sessions 3.0 this December

Time to inoculate your firm against early-onset Zombieism… by coming to the Blueprint Sessions 3.0 this December

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 […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Absolutely Meaningless Comedy, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cloud Computing, Current Affairs, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Finance & Accounting BPO, Financial Services Sourcing Strategies, Global Business Services, Healthcare and Outsourcing, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Outsourcing, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, Industry-specific Outsourcing, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Advisors, Outsourcing and Politics, Outsourcing and Technology, Outsourcing Events, Outsourcing Heros, Outsourcing Research, Outsourcing Vendors, PaaS, procurement, SaaS, Security and Risk, SMAC and Big Data, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Sourcing Locations, Sustainabiity & Corporate Social Responsibility, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing, The Internet of Things | 1 Response

Accenture fires a nuclear warhead at the sourcing and procurement market

Accenture procures procurement’s prize property: Procurian

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Accenture, BPO, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Current Affairs, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, HfSResearch.com Homepage, Industry-specific Outsourcing, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing and Technology, Outsourcing Vendors, procurement, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing | 1 Response

And here’s the 2013 Procurement Outsourcing Blueprint…

And here’s the 2013 Procurement Outsourcing Blueprint…

By Phil Fersht on July 26, 2013

A big congrats to Accenture, IBM, Procurian, Infosys and GEP for making the Winners Circle

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, HfSResearch.com Homepage, Innovation in Outsourcing, procurement, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing, The HfS Blueprint | 1 Response

Replay of “Outsourcing is DEAD! Long Live Outsourcing…”

Replay of “Outsourcing is DEAD! Long Live Outsourcing…”

By Phil Fersht on June 28, 2013

Firstly folks, apologies for the dramatic title, but it certainly worked – we had a record 1,400 participants tuning in to yesterday’s webcast, to discuss the key findings of the largest-ever global study of enterprises’ outsourcing intentions and dynamics, covering 1,355 industry stakeholders, which we conducted with the support of KMPG’s Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory group. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cloud Computing, CRM and Marketing, Current Affairs, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Finance & Accounting BPO, Financial Services Sourcing Strategies, Global Business Services, Healthcare and Outsourcing, HfS, HfS Surveys: State of the Outsourcing 2013, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, KPMG, Legal Services Outsourcing, Outsourcing Advisors, Outsourcing Research, PaaS, procurement, SaaS, Security and Risk, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing

Social Business Predictions for 2013

Social Business Predictions for 2013

By Michael Fauscette on February 20, 2013

This year, for the first time, the IDC social business team produced a set of top ten predictions for social business as a part of the annual predictions cycle. We’re holding a webinar at noon ET today to discuss them,…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged B2B, customer service, CX, ESN, ibm, oracle, predictions, procurement, sap, socbiz, Social, talent

Outsourcing may be battered, bruised and vilified… so why is only a twentieth of enterprises planning to reduce it in 2013?

Outsourcing may be battered, bruised and vilified… so why is only a twentieth of enterprises planning to reduce it in 2013?

By Phil Fersht on January 28, 2013

2013: A new dawn for a maturing outsourcing industry Make no bones about it:  2012 was a pretty dire year for the industry known as “outsourcing”. However, brand new data from our State of Outsourcing 2013 Study conducted with the support of KPMG, the largest-ever research survey focused on IT and business function outsourcing, clearly shows that […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cloud Computing, Current Affairs, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, Financial Services Sourcing Strategies, HfS Surveys: State of the Outsourcing 2013, HR Outsourcing, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, Industry-specific Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, KPMG, Legal Services Outsourcing, Outsourcing, Outsourcing Research, PaaS, procurement, SaaS, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing | 2 Responses

Cost Management Failures: 10 Reasons SMBs Stink at Procurement

Cost Management Failures: 10 Reasons SMBs Stink at Procurement

By Jason Busch on January 16, 2013

Last week, we began a blog series exploring the state of procurement in the small and middle market sectors. See 2013: The Year of Source-To-Pay Adoption for SMB Procurement and 3 Essential Procurement Services For Small and Middle Market Businesses. As we continue our analysis of SMB procurement practices, it makes sense to do a […]

Posted in Business | Tagged procurement, small business, smb, sme, supply chain

News Analysis: UsedSoft Vs Oracle Ruling Opens Up Monopolistic Practices By Software Vendors

News Analysis: UsedSoft Vs Oracle Ruling Opens Up Monopolistic Practices By Software Vendors

By R "Ray" Wang on July 5, 2012

Used Software Pioneers Gain A Small Victory In A Shrinking On-Premises Software World The surprise July 3rd, 2012 judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union for UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp rules that “An author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licenses allowing the use of his programs […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged 3PM, 3rd party maintenance, Apps Strategy, Arrow, Avnet, best practices, bill of rights, CDW, Cloud, Cloud options, Cloud Wars, contract negotiations, contract strategy, Court of Justice For The European Union, customer bill of rights, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, enterprise strategy, EU, EU Anti Competition, EU Commisioner For Competition, European Union, Exhaustion Rule, Infor, Infor Global Solutions GmbH, Ingram Micro, license fees, license management, license parking, license policy, license resells, license returns, News Analysis, procurement, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, software bill of rights, Software Insider, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software ownership, software ownership lifecycle, software trends, Software Vendors, SoftwareInsider, user strategy, vendor strategy

The Ariba Fallout -- How the SAP Procurement Partner and BPO Ecosystem Could be Shaken Up

The Ariba Fallout — How the SAP Procurement Partner and BPO Ecosystem Could be Shaken Up

By Jason Busch on May 31, 2012

If SAP closes the Ariba acquisition, the ecosystem that has been so important to SAP (especially in SRM and directly linked areas such as e-invoicing) could be in for a serious shake-up. Spend Matters believes that providers that have …

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, hubwoo, procurement, sap, Taulia

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