Category Archives: Absolutely Meaningless Comedy

Let’s cut through the fluff and discover what’s really going in the sourcing industry

The “Amazing Horse Race” is the ultimate public bloodbath of the sourcing industry, as the “Buy team” defends the title it gloriously won last year in Edinburgh. However this time it’s not going to be quite as easy…

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And here are… HfS’ 2011 Outsourcing Predictions… on demand

nd here we are, like clockwork, jumping on the tackiest, lamest marketing exercise every analyst, consultant, CEO, and wannabe thought-leader always persists in doing… because you are supposed to gasp “Wow – they are predicting the future!”

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Meeting even those simple metrics can sometimes be a challenge…

even your granny could have put that one away…

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Building your governance team: if you hire monkeys, you get…

A well defined outsourcing strategy

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HfS Research hires a new dynamo analyst, the likes of which you have never experienced…

We’ve scoured the globe to source the finest talent, and are delighted to unveil some unbridled expertise…

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Smart governance will avoid blow-ups

Ensure you have the right leadership to avoid potential disasters with your global sourcing strategy

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Innovation discovered!

The key to achieving innovation, is to nurture today’s young talent, teaching new and creative methods

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Whats happens in India… stays in India

1) Which country, promoting its datacenter capabilities, do these fine gentlemen represent? 2) Can you identify this statesmen of the BPO industry (I’d just finished speaking, so forgive him his 40 winks…)

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The Buy Family thunders home yet again!

Aside from air strikes, ash clouds, oil leaks and Sarah Palin’s previous plea to “drill baby drill”, global media attention was briefly diverted, last week, to Edinburgh as some of BPO’s top buyers and providers bravely duked it out the SSON’s European Shared Services & Outsourcing Week.

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Are captives on the rebound?

So now Indian prisons are piloting BPO services for cost-savvy providers. Hmmm…

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How could you fall for it again!

After last year’s now infamous “Obama to ban offshore outsourcing” April Fool’s gag, we didn’t suspect that even more of you would fall hook line and sinker for this year’s little effort.

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Horses for Sources to advise Obama administration on offshore outsourcing

We’re deeply honored to be selected as the exclusive analyst advisor to the Obama administration on offshore outsourcing issues.  As part of the contract award, the Horses analyst team will be invited to quarterly white-boarding sessions at the White House to discuss the latest market dynamics in IT outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing, in a [...]

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Are you ready… for H Day?

Plug in your headphones, crank up the volume and ask yourself… are you ready for H day? (may take a few seconds to load if you have a cheap computer) How many of these images from the history of the Horses do you remember?

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Spreading the love for Valentine’s Day…

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Vot happens now?

An hilarious parody of the Magic Quadrant

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New Year’s outsourcing resolutions for service providers

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The best of Horses in ’09… the funnies

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Stop Press: meaningful use of Twitter discovered

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Swine Flu can impact your service levels

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Proof that you can stabilize your operations eventually…

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