Outsourcing may be battered, bruised and vilified… so why is only a twentieth of enterprises planning to reduce it in 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 [...]
Jan 17th HfS Webinar: The seven influencers in sourcing saddle up for a second session
We bring together the seven most most prominent sourcing savants to debate publicly the critical challenges facing sourcing today
Why HfS cancelled its 2013 predictions
For all of you waiting on tenterhooks for our 2013 predictions, I am afraid we have some bad news: today, we took the unprecedented step of canceling them. But why?
Can we ever get back to the “thinking” workforce?
For a long while now, I have privately been concerned about the negative impact the modern work culture is having on the disintegration of work ethics within many of today’s firms. Many workers, whose jobs once forced them to think and focus, have today become reactive, easily-distracted and operational. It first dawned on me [...]
So… who’s got the bottle to buy HP’s BPO services business?
In today’s commodotizing market for IT and business services, HP’s services business can only really look to defend what it still has against the encroaching competitive bite of the likes of Accenture, Cognizant, Genpact, IBM, TCS etc. However, there is one option that could revitalize its legacy: merge with one of the market leaders.
Alsbridge digs deep into the guts of the Cloud with Telwares acquisition
A subtle, but decisive, shift took place in the sourcing advisory landscape today, with Alsbridge’s announcing the acquisition of leading telecoms/networking sourcing advisor, Telwares, to firmly place Alsbridge as the main contender to ISG at the helm of the independent boutique advisor market.
Captain Cliff of the Sourcing Enterprise Part III… The Death of the “O” Word
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…
Our businesses need to perform eons better than our politicians when it comes to CHANGE
Imagine running a business where you have no accountability for cost control, achieving your stated objectives and are completely paralyzed to change anything. And when you do try and change something, half the organization refuses to even contemplate change? Welcome to government.inc. The impossible organization.
Captain Cliff of the Sourcing Enterprise Part II… The Death of Outsourcing
And welcome back to our interview with KPMG’s Captain Cliff who has proclaimed the Death of Outsourcing in a recent white paper
Reprise In Time For #HRTechConf: Do You Know How To Answer These Questions?
[I posted the original version of this on 9-12-2011, just in time for last year's HR Technology Conference. Now here we are again, in frantic last minute preparations, but so wanting to be sure that our conference plans are focused on the important HRM delivery system issues that we're facing. So I thought it was [...]
