Our Research Services

Our goal is to be a part of your decision-making team, with our analysts easily accessible at short-notice.  Most clients engage us in a "retainer-style" subscription model, where we can allocate time to spend with you over the course of the year as and when you need us, and you can access our research.

Who buys our services:

Horses for Sources Research provides expert analyst services for all stakeholders in the outsourcing industry.  Our clients are predominantly customers (buyers) of outsourcing services, but we also make our research available to service providers, sourcing advisors, management consultants, investors and government agencies.

Our core services:

  • Research Reports. Our analyst team produces a series of premium research reports covering BPO and IT outsourcing markets, best sourcing practices, competitive analyses etc.  These are available to our subscription service clients.
  • Analyst Subscription Service. Most our clients reserve a pre-set amount of analyst time with us on an annual basis, where we can answer your questions, validate your strategy, or discuss market dynamics.  You can access our premium reports as part of the subscription service.
  • Custom Research / Research-based Consulting. If your requirements are particularly unique, we can provide research-based help as a custom assignment.
  • Strategy Workshops. Bring us in for a half or a full-day and we can get a lot accomplished.
  • "Business Outcomes" Case-studies. We are always looking to write about customers' outsourcing experiences to share with the industry at large.
  • Sponsored Webcasts. With our vast community presence, we are very experienced at drawing a crowd to discuss the hot industry topics du jour.  We’re always interested in working with our clients to help inform and educate industry audiences
  • Speaking Engagements. Wheel us out, we'll help draw a crowd and put on a good show for you.

Our coverage areas:

Essentially, we're deeply involved across most areas of business process outsourcing and IT outsourcing.  We also have a deep focus on how new outsourcing engagement models are harnessing new software models, such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing.   Our analysts have deep experience in the following areas, where we will be blogging insights, producing market landscape analyses and other research articles:

For more information on our services, please email us at research@horsesforsources.com

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