Category Archives: Absolutely Meaningless Comedy

Ensure you keep calm during transition…

May 18th, 2013

Ensure you keep calm during transition…

So… are these the world’s best outsourcing advisors?

May 8th, 2013

The IAOP has announced it’s 2013 “best outsourcing advisors”, and kudos to my former employer, Deloitte, for coming top. Credit has to go out to Peter Lowes and his Outsourcing Advisory Services group for their achievement. In addition, KPMG’s Shared Services and Advisory Group, led my Cliff Justice, finished in second place – a strong showing and justification of their 2011 acquisition of EquaTerra. The biggest surprises, however, are the absences of ISG, the largest transaction advisor of outsourcing contracts, and PwC…

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So if the rockstars have gone, what’s left in the analyst industry?

April 28th, 2013

Most of the big analyst personalities have seemingly fled the analyst industry… many for the riches on offer from their vendor clients, clearly seeing more ROI from employing them, as opposed to purchasing their firm’s services. However, this hasn’t prevented the remaining legacy purveyors of analyst services from making a living.

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Achieving new-world innovation: promote your innermost qualities to the world unashamedly

April 28th, 2013

Achieving new-world innovation: promote your innermost qualities to the world unashamedly

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The dreamSource countdown… Meet Mads

April 9th, 2013

Madelein Smit is VP, Outsourcing at CEVA Logistics

Step-up Madelein “Mads” Smit, head of both IT and F&A outsourcing for CEVA Logistics

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Outsourcing Executives: What’s your career narrative?

April 4th, 2013

Deborah Kops is, always was, and always will be, Deborah Kops (click for bio)

I’m obsessed by careers. I spend time trying to make sense of the various and sundry twists and turns that the life’s work of those in our industry seem to take. And I look closely for patterns.

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Innovation discovered… on the London Underground

April 3rd, 2013

Innovation discovered… on the London Underground

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Phil Fersht re-instated as CEO of HfS, despite his April-foolery

April 2nd, 2013

Please tell us you didn't fall for it again?

Isn’t it amazing how someone can pull off a prank on 1st April every year and STILL many of you fall for it?

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Phil Fersht steps down as HfS CEO

April 1st, 2013

Members of the HfS analyst team remain focused, despite their wayward leader

After more than three years at the helm of research organization HfS Research, Phil Fersht will be stepping down as CEO to “pursue other interests”. The HfS advisory board is meeting later this week to discuss potential replacements.

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Coping with the return to work

January 7th, 2013

Here’s some free advice, folks, so do with it what you want…

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Ho Ho BPO! Happy HanuChristWali everyone

December 25th, 2012

Ho Ho BPO! HanuChristWali everyone

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Why HfS cancelled its 2013 predictions

December 20th, 2012

We predict... there'll be a lot of rubbish predictions

For all of you waiting on tenterhooks for our 2013 predictions, I am afraid we have some bad news: today, we took the unprecedented step of canceling them. But why?

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Why the social enterprise matters… Yarmis brings his thoughts back from Dreamforce

September 23rd, 2012

HfS' Research VP Jonathan Yarmis putting in the hard graft at the Dreamforce show

We can’t understate the importance of social media on the enterprise. Hey – we bet our whole business model on it! And that’s why we hired one of the best thinkers in the social sphere to help us understand how social will impact business processes and how enterprises will operate in this new social world we live in. So we coaxed Jonathan Yarmis from his Dreamforce-induced hangover, where he was living it up with 90,00o 0ther technology geeks, to tell HfS why this matters….

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