Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics
By Phil Fersht on May 14, 2013
Cranking it up to Eleven (left to right)… Anoop, Henric and John You firm has incredible talent that performs miracles of heightened performance with your outsourcing relationships. Your provider serves up boundless dollops of innovations that never cease to delight. Then don’t bother to tune in this coming Thursday to debate the State of Outsourcing [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Accenture, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cigna, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, Global Business Services, HR, HR Outsourcing, HR Strategy, Industry-specific Outsourcing, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, microsoft, Sourcing Change Management, talent, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing |
By Phil Fersht on April 22, 2013
There’s been a lot of backchannel lately regarding high profile analyst departures to vendor organizations, with Thomas Otter, Gartner’s hugely popular VP for Human Capital Management, hopping to SAP’s recent acquisition, SuccessFactors.
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CRM and Marketing, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, gartner, HR Strategy, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Advisors, Outsourcing Research, Phil Fersht, sap, Talent in Sourcing, Thomas Otter |
By Phil Fersht on March 11, 2013
When is comes to outsourcing, dealing with the middle-market has been somewhat akin to dealing with the mother-in-law: can be awkward to deal with, very hard to please, and always has complex demands on your patience and resources.
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged ADP, business platforms, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, CRM and Marketing, Dynamics Phil Fersht, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, HfS Surveys: All our Survey Posts, HfS Surveys: State of the Outsourcing 2013, HR Outsourcing, IaaS and BPaaS, Industry-specific Outsourcing, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, microsoft, oracle, Outsourcing and Politics, Outsourcing Research, PaaS, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, SFDC, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing, workday |
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 |
By Phil Fersht on December 2, 2012
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 [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged analytics, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, Global Business Services, HfS, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Outsourcing, HR Strategy, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Research, Phil Fersht, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, talent management, The Future of Outsourcing |
By Phil Fersht on November 16, 2012
Today, we’re proud to announce the unveiling of what promises to be the ultimate sourcing showdown of leading enterprise buyers and providers… in Westchester County, New York, next Spring
Posted in Business | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Current Affairs, dreamsource, enterprise social networking, Finance & Accounting BPO, Global Business Services, Healthcare and Outsourcing, HfS, HfS Research Company News, Industry-specific Outsourcing, innovation, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing, Outsourcing Events, social networking, Sourcing, Sourcing Change Management, talent, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing |
By Phil Fersht on May 22, 2012
With its $4.3 billion cash offer, SAP answered every procurement technologist’s question, “Who is going to buy Ariba?” While this acquisition will rupture the procurement technology universe, HfS believes the real question that supply chain and finance professionals must ask is, “Now that SAP finally has a credible commerce network, can I eliminate and automate processes I’ve been busily outsourcing?”
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Ariba, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Current Affairs, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Enterprise Irregulars, filippone, HfS, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing and Technology, Outsourcing Vendors, PaaS, procurement, SaaS, sap, sapariba |
By Phil Fersht on May 1, 2012
ver wondered what would happen if you brought the six most prominent IT and business services savants together for a one-hour debate on the future of the sourcing and services world? Well, wonder no more as this becomes a reality on 17th May at 12pm EST, 5pm GMT
Posted in Business | Tagged BPO, Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cloud Computing, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Advisors, Outsourcing and Politics, Outsourcing Heros, Security and Risk, The Future of Outsourcing, Webinar |
