By Phil Fersht on December 18, 2013
It will be fascinating to see if the larger SIs and/or HRO providers will be able to craft just the right mix of quality and cost-effectiveness to be successful in delivering much smaller, less labor-intensive and more tool-based implementation and post-implementation HR services.
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Outsourcing, HR Strategy, HRO, IaaS and BPaaS, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Naomi Bloom, Outsourcing Advisors, Outsourcing Heros, Outsourcing Vendors, PaaS, Phil Fersht, SaaS, SMAC and Big Data, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing
By Phil Fersht on November 11, 2013
When Zombieism takes its grip on enterprise operations, many fail to realize… until it’s too late. In fact, many of you reading this may already be exhibiting signs of early-0nset Zombieism and immediate inoculation is imperative… But never fear folks, as the forthcoming BluePrint Sessions 3.0 in New York this December are specifically designed to […]
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By Phil Fersht on October 3, 2013
On a Sourcing Mission – Accenture’s Mike Salvino adds Procurian to his previous Ariba services acquisition You know when a market’s hotting up when the leading specialists start getting plucked by the top tier, and Accenture today made a massive $375m statement of intent in the procurement and supply chain management BPO industry by acquiring […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Accenture, BPO, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Current Affairs, Engineering & Supply Chain Outsourcing, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, HfSResearch.com Homepage, Industry-specific Outsourcing, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing and Technology, Outsourcing Vendors, procurement, social networking, Sourcing Change Management, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing |
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
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, CRM and Marketing, Current Affairs, enter, Enterprise Irregulars, Finance & Accounting BPO, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Outsourcing, Industry-specific Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Outsourcing Vendors, SMAC and Big Data, The Future of Outsourcing
By Phil Fersht on August 19, 2013
When vendors, particularly hardware and software vendors, were running around and talking about ‘Cloud this and Cloud that’, and ‘Big Data this and Big Data that’, we felt they were missing the point, because they weren’t driving conversion. Whereas the SMAC Stack, when it is integrated, it does start to drive business solutions. – Malcolm Frank, Cognizant, […]
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By Phil Fersht on August 14, 2013
We got a few minutes with Shibu, CEO of Infosys, to find out what’s going on under the Infosys hood these days
Posted in Business | Tagged Cloud Computing, Current Affairs, Enterprise Irregulars, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, Industry-specific Outsourcing, Infosys, Innovation in Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Knowledge Process Outsourcing & Analytics, Outsourcing Heros, Outsourcing Vendors, S D Sibalal, Shibu, SMAC and Big Data, Sourcing Locations, The Future of Outsourcing
By Phil Fersht on August 12, 2013
Cognizant’s Malcolm Frank talks to HfS Research’s Phil Fersht about the Cognizant growth story and how the firm is trying to stay ahead of the game
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By Phil Fersht on June 3, 2013
It is my personal belief that the likes of HP and CSC will be sweating from the oncoming threat from the Austin-based firm’s $8.5 billion services arm in the not-too-distant future, not to mention some of the flagging Indian firms struggling to rediscover their mojoes.
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, Current Affairs, Dell, Enterprise Irregulars, Healthcare and Outsourcing, HfS, HfSResearch.com Homepage, HR Strategy, Industry-specific Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing / IT Services, Michael Dell, Outsourcing Heros, Outsourcing Vendors, Talent in Sourcing, The Future of Outsourcing
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.
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Blueprint, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Buyers' Sourcing Best Practices, Current Affairs, Finance & Accounting BPO, HfS, Innovation in Outsourcing, Outsourcing Research, Outsourcing Vendors, The Future of Outsourcing, The HfS Blueprint |
By Phil Fersht on January 11, 2013
We bring together the seven most most prominent sourcing savants to debate publicly the critical challenges facing sourcing today
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