Tune in, crank up the volume, or pop in your headphones in if you’re in the office. A few summer memories from the HfS team, as we go sit on a beach for a couple of weeks… we really do appreciate all your support. You’ve been part of one heck of a journey (so far)…
Welcome to Part 2 of the Don Schulman interview, where he talks to us about whether shared services are really dying, the changing role of advisors, and where he sees the BPO industry moving in the future, and what he means by “verticalizing the horizontal”.
We’re seeing hard evidence that today’s most successful business are also the better sustainability performers. So what can we do to encourage business leaders to be sustainably-smart as they redefine their global operations strategies?
Fed up with all the puff and fluff? Comatosed by the motherhood and apple pie? Ready to get the real deal? Well, your pain will be over on August 4th, as we bring you the ultimate unfiltered schmaltz-free one-hour debate on the future of the outsourcing industry.
As IBM’s Donniel Schulman’s reputation and influence in the BPO industry has grown in recent years, we’ve finally persuaded the chirpy New Yorker to share some of his story since IBM entered the BPO industry via its 2002 acquisition of PwC Consulting
So the Grandaddy of great big research, and (arguably) the founding father of today’s IT industry analyst business, Gideon Gartner, picked up on our recent post “Will the industry analyst business be dead in five years?”
While we were having some in-depth discussions with Microsoft’s CPO, Tim McBride, it became apparent how important niche specialist BPOs, such as Alpar’s firm Denali, are to the global sourcing mix for many organizations. So we thought we’d take a few minutes to have a discussion with Alpar about the future of the procurement function and the role of the CPO.
We talked with Microsoft Chief Procurement Officer, Tim McBride, about his procurement execution and BPO experience as part of a case study in a paper entitled “The CPO in 2011: The Toughest Job in the Global 1000″.
We couldn’t wait to sit down with Tony for a podcast recording to hear what’s in store for you in the coming months
Please welcome Mr Anthony Filippone to the hallowed ground of HfS analyst, industry thought-leader, and, most notably, the role of Governator-Extraordinaire
This event represents SIG’s first major foray into the UK, and it promises to set new sourcing standards, featuring integral discussions on global business operations strategy, sourcing, shared services and BPO
Companies need leaders to start thinking about the future of work as part of their business planning processes. HR leaders are well positioned to understand the capability and talent of the organization. They also have access to more enabling technology they ever before to help engage the entire workforce in creating the future of work at their companies.
HfS and Outsource Magazine have formed a lid-lifting media partnership… here are the details
In Part I of our interview with Francisco D’Souza, President and CEO of Cognizant, we discussed the rampant growth Cognizant has experienced, the global economic environment as we emerge from the Recession, and Frank’s point of view on the Cloud and the sourcing industry
Cognizant had an unprecedenced growth spurt in 2010, attaining annual revenues of $4.59 billion – up 40% year-over-year. We have arrived at the growth peak of offshore IT services, and Cognizant has led this acceleration coming out of the Recession. So we caught up with President and CEO, Frank D’Souza, to discuss the dynamics behind Cognizant’s growth, the state of the services industry, the global economic outlook and his perspective on the Cloud, among other issues.
Mary Sue Rogers will share her insights into why full-service HRO has had a mixed scorecard in its first 10 years; what she will be doing differently in the next 10; the unique technologies used in HRO not usually found in a traditional HR environment; and the critical role of third parties and what they do in successful HRO engagements.
We’re thrilled that Phil Hassey has thrown hit hat in the horse’s ring to pony up a couple of BPO appraisals of the region for us in 2011
It’s remarkable how quickly an outsourcing concept can spiral from concept to reality, when the ability to achieve real cost-savings is augmented by accessing insights and flexible resources. And that’s exactly what’s been going on with Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO)
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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