Category: Agentic AI
Stop pontificating about other people losing their jobs to AI and worry about your own job
Here's the cold, hard truth about employment today—we're judged by one ruthless metric: how much you cost versus how much value we deliver. With AI reshaping expectations, the tipping point where our value fails to justify our price tag is frighteningly closer than most of us will admit.Read More
How Generative and Agentic AI are Supercharging the OneOffice Data Cycle
We finally have an injection of rocket fuel from Generative and Agentic AI to create intelligent agents that can sense, decide, and act with autonomy... as long as we have our data strategy right. To be a truly autonomous organization, the principles of OneOffice hold truer than ever: workflows executed in real-time between customers and employees that engage partners right across our business ecosystems.Read More
AI agents are redefining commerce by eliminating legacy B2B SaaS
Visa and Mastercard just escalated the war for the future of commerce—not with another app, but with autonomous AI agents that buy on your behalf. These aren't lab experiments. Visa’s Intelligent Commerce and Mastercard’s Agent Pay are foundational shifts designed to embed payments into AI platforms that consumers already trust. The implications for enterprise commerce are nothing short of seismic.Read More
Meet Babak, one of agentic’s original inventors
If you’re an enterprise leader staring down ballooning tech debt, rising pressure for AI transformation, and daily new product drops that all scream “innovate now or be left behind,” stop. Take a breath—and read this wide-ranging Q&A between Cognizant CTO Babak Hodjat and HFS Executive Research Leader David Cushman.Read More
Services-as-Software threatens to kill off BPO specialists as WNS eyes Capgemini as a strategic exit partner
As speculation of a Capgemini takeover of WNS hots up, you have to question the future of BPO specialist firms as the worlds of services and software continue to blend together in a rapidly emerging $1.5 trillion market, which HFS last year termed "Services-as-Software".Read More
Joe Biden to keynote at the HFS Summit
HFS Research, the analyst firm which coined the term “Services-as-Software” has added former president Joe Biden to its stellar line up of speakers, which include CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and Wharton School Professor Ethan Mollick. He will address the impact of AI on the United States under the theme “The Agentic President”.Read More
It’s time for a work reset to escape our humanist recession
We have to reset our current work habits and refocus on our futures. Otherwise, we’ll withdraw more and more into a world where we’re becoming imposters. We must embrace change, refuel our passions, and tune out all the rhetoric and noise.My advice is to focus on building closer work relationships, get out more, and meet more people. Working with people, locking heads, building friendships, sharing experiences... this is what energizes us. At the end of the day, we're all mammals, and we need each other.Read More
You must fight your FOBO… your Fear Of Becoming Obsolete!
You can blame your company's culture or your management's cynical approach to cost-cutting as being the key reason behind failed AI experiments, but ultimately, you need to train yourself to be an AI warrior, unafraid of the battles ahead, to stay relevant, creative, collaborative, and completely irreplaceable. You must fight your Fear Of Becoming Obsolete! Read More
If you can’t move your people, then move your code — Services-as-Software is the new trade route
If you can’t move your people, then move your code — Services-as-Software is the new trade route with agents supercharging our workforce.Protectionism isn't just disrupting your current vendor relationships—it's fundamentally transforming how services are delivered to your organization. As more governments try to lock down supply chains, labor markets, and data flows, service providers are left with no choice but to accelerate their shift toward Services-as-Software. Read More
AI, tariffs and de-globalization could drive services creation in the US
Suddenly, we find ourselves in a world where moving work around the world carries a lot more risk... and cost. The changing nature of the US workforce supports the possibility of services coming to the US as anxious businesses look to get ahead of global risk and uncertainty. Only a fool would ignore the magnitude of what is happening in our geopolitical landscape. Read More