By Phil Fersht on September 12, 2013
Concentrix’s investors, SYNEXX, were clearly so impressed with IBM’s performance to reach the Winners Circle for customer experience management, they wanted a piece of the action for themselves
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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. […]
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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 […]
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By Phil Fersht on March 25, 2013
After three years of hard labor, we, at HfS, are proud to launch our first “HfS Blueprint” that we believe is the a revolutionary crowdsourced methodology for evaluating business and IT service providers.
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By Phil Fersht on March 18, 2013
ITO maybe a commodity business, but a new wave of collaborative BPO services is beginning to show the way
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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By Phil Fersht on November 27, 2012
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.
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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
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