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The Evolving Maturity of Robotic Process Automation

The Evolving Maturity of Robotic Process Automation

By Phil Fersht on November 13, 2014

The HfS RPA Maturity Model assesses where an individual service provider sits with regards to the maturity of its RPA strategy

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Advisors, PaaS, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, The As-a-Service Economy

The Ten Tenets Driving the As-a-Service Economy

The Ten Tenets Driving the As-a-Service Economy

By Phil Fersht on November 7, 2014

As the As-a-Service Economy continues to emerge and evolve, it is the belief of HfS that the model will follow ten key tenets

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, PaaS, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The As-a-Service Economy, The Internet of Things

Why some providers are grimly hanging onto the labor-arbitrage model

Why some providers are grimly hanging onto the labor-arbitrage model

By Phil Fersht on November 4, 2014

A new breed of provider has to emerge, which can disrupt the legacy labor-based model

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, HfS Surveys: Technology in BPO 2014, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IaaS and BPaaS, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Advisors, PaaS, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The As-a-Service Economy

More hope less fear, please - Digital is not only changing the way we work, it's improving it

More hope less fear, please – Digital is not only changing the way we work, it’s improving it

By Phil Fersht on October 6, 2014

The world of work’s just so much more interesting and rewarding today that it was even five years’ ago

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Enterprise Irregulars, HfS Surveys: All our Survey Posts, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, mobility, PaaS, procurement, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing

1093 research influencers have spoken: HfS leads the analyst industry for growing influence

1093 research influencers have spoken: HfS leads the analyst industry for growing influence

By Phil Fersht on October 1, 2014

And finally, the results of the Analyst Value Survey, which canvassed the views of 1093 enterprises, analysts and vendor consumers of research, have been released. This is – by some margin – the largest study ever conducted to gauge the influence and value of the industry technology analyst firms, and even the most optimistic followers […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Outsourcing Heros, Talent in Sourcing

Shamelessly Shamus: Why Europe is positioned to leapfrog the United States

Shamelessly Shamus: Why Europe is positioned to leapfrog the United States

By Phil Fersht on September 15, 2014

Did you hear the one about the Mamil (middle aged man in lycra), who got off his bike, donned a suit and tie and joined a Big 4 consulting firm to wax lyrical about sourcing strategy?

Posted in Business | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Global Business Services, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Advisors, Outsourcing Heros, Robotic Process Automation, Sourcing Change Management, Sourcing Locations, Talent in Sourcing

The 2014 HfS Blueprint for SAP Services: who’s leading this $156 Billion market?

The 2014 HfS Blueprint for SAP Services: who’s leading this $156 Billion market?

By Phil Fersht on September 8, 2014

More than 850 data points were collected in Q1 and Q2 of 2014, covering 740 buyers, providers, and advisors/influencers of SAP Services. 31 providers of SAP Services were evaluated.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Irregulars, HfS Blueprint Results, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, sap, Thomas Mendel

Welcome to the era of churn, where 50% of outsourcing contracts are at risk

Welcome to the era of churn, where 50% of outsourcing contracts are at risk

By Phil Fersht on September 3, 2014

We’ve been calling it for seven years now, and finally the chickens are coming home to roost for the outsourcing business:  clients are genuinely walking away from outsourcing relationships which provide mediocre value. And, while some savvy providers are sensing the defections with a few notable re-bid wins of late, many still have their heads […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Irregulars, HfS Surveys: All our Survey Posts, HfS Surveys: State of Outsourcing 2014, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IaaS and BPaaS, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Advisors, PaaS, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, Talent in Sourcing

ISG, Enlighta and KMPG make the Winner’s Circle for Governance Solutions

ISG, Enlighta and KMPG make the Winner’s Circle for Governance Solutions

By Phil Fersht on August 21, 2014

The act of “outsourcing” is really only that initial phase of activity where an organization takes a technology/business process or function and transfers the management responsibility over to a third party to ensure the smooth running of said process or operation. Once the outsourced processes are running functionally with the third party, the “outsourcing” is […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, avasant, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Captives and Shared Services Strategies, Cloud Computing, Enlighta, Global Business Services, HfS Blueprint Results, HfSResearch.com Homepage, Hyperos, IaaS and BPaaS, ISG, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, KPMG, Outsourcing Advisors, PaaS, SaaS, Security and Risk, servicenow

How can we re-humanize the enterprise with two-thirds of staff becoming irrelevant, a similar number sick of their employers

How can we re-humanize the enterprise with two-thirds of staff becoming irrelevant, a similar number sick of their employers

By Phil Fersht on August 18, 2014

There needs to be a significant mindset change from both employers and their staff to re-humanize the enterprise

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IaaS and BPaaS, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, PaaS, Robotic Process Automation, SaaS, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing

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