By Phil Fersht on February 12, 2015
We need advisors steeped in reality who can give enterprises a nice big dose of reality, who truly understand what life is like a few years into an outsourcing engagement
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Enterprise Irregulars, HfS Surveys: All our Survey Posts, HfSResearch.com Homepage, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Outsourcing Advisors, Value Beyond Cost Study 2015
By Phil Fersht on February 3, 2015
if your enterprise cannot make the swift changes you need to upskill your operations talent, surely the advent of Robotic Process Automation platforms is providing an increasingly appealing alternative path to take?
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By Phil Fersht on February 1, 2015
Consultants are supposed to be like doctors – they need to use the latest tools, technologies and knowledge at their disposal to help their clients
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By Phil Fersht on January 19, 2015
60% of enterprise C-Suites are actively seeking to reduce their reliance on labor in their operations – but most are discovering they need to work smarter before they can work cheaper.
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By Phil Fersht on January 12, 2015
There needs to be a coming-together of consulting and outsourcing service delivery, the likes of which we have yet to see at a broad scale in the services industry.
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics and Big Data, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Digital Transformation, Enterprise Irregulars, HfS Research, HfS Surveys: All our Survey Posts, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, mobility, Outsourcing Advisors, Phil Fersht, Robotic Process Automation, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The As-a-Service Economy, Value Beyond Cost Study 2015
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
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
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
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
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 […]
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