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Year: 2016
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My personal unfiltered truths about IT Infrastructure Services Providers
Jamie's just going to get all his preconceived opinions out there right now...Read More
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Welcome to my blog: In Digital We Trust?
As we continue the shift from the legacy, analog economy of the last century towards a still emerging 21st century digital economy, new opportunities abound. Brands that couldn’t have existed 20 years ago now dominate our global economy.Read More
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How to Power Up and Re-think your Outsourcing Experience
If you really want what’s next… your service provider might actually have the ideas… but is your leadership willing to listen, invest, give them access to your intimate data, and give it a try? Is your organization genuinely culturally ready for innovativRead More
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The dinosaur that is procurement: Get relevant to your business or become extinct
Procurement’s very existence is in trouble. The function must be part of the whole negotiation process, not only to protect the company from making deals that do not benefit the firm but also ensure they are sensible, cordial and well-balanced - and both supplier and buyer realize the outcomes they both want to achieve. Sadly, this is so not the case with so many pivotal business deals today.Read More
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Welcome to my blog: Berzerk with Derk
This is my all new spot on Horses for Sources. The home of razor-sharp analysis and the place where hypes are crushed and real trends are born. Phil has set the bar incredibly high over the past decade. Inspired by the best analyst blogger around, my aimRead More
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Forget about Omnichannel hype when your Basic Customer Service Sucks
Everyone is talking about how to get to the right strategy for omnichannel customer communications, yet no one really knows what it means.Read More
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Thinking Outside The Box To Support SaaS Applications
I’ve been an analyst for 20 years, a period dominated by legacy systems, on premise applications and a very strict view of the IT services Value Chain of Plan, Implement and Manage. Service providers and analysts alike list relevant services that should aRead More
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Confessions of a market forecaster – we might not be real wizards, but let us at least pretend we are!
Looking behind the curtain at how market sizing and forecasting really works…Read More
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RPA is Dead. Long Live Intelligent Automation!
I have been researching the notion of Intelligent Automation and, in particular, the rapid uptake of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for more than 4 years. It was this work that eventually brought me to HfS. Over the years, I have made many good friendsRead More
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Budgets? We don’t need no stinking budgets! Or do we? An interview with Accenture’s Bill Phelps
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Bill Phelps, Managing Director, Accenture Security, to discuss our report. Bill was one of my co-collaborators in this research effort, and I was curious to get his take on both the survey and its implicatioRead More
