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Category: Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
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If you were too hungover to join our predictions webcast, here’s the replay and the deck
In case you missed our joint webcast with Ed Caso of Wells Fargo Securities on Friday, fear no more, as here's the replayRead More
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@The_Whole_Outsourcing_Industry: Labor arbitrage built your house of cards. #Bubble What’s next?
The outsourcing industry is a labor arbitrage bubble waiting to burst. And today’s smartest buyers and service providers are poised to fatally pop it and build a better future.Read More
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Announcing the HfS 50 Sourcing Blueprint Sessions
This is going to be a defining two-day working session for power-brokers of the outsourcing industry, where leading buyers of both ITO and BPO services will confront today's critical issues impacting outsourcing, to establish a Blueprint for the industry in 2015. And this time, we will have a vendor/buyer face-off session where leaders from six of the major service providers will join the debate.Read More
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IBM embellishes its B2B commerce empire… by acquiring Emptoris
Emptoris’ well-regarded user interface and strong brand recognition among the procurement crowd make it an idea mate for IBM’s technology-driven focus and market leading procurement BPO capability. While the integration of Sterling, DemandTec, and Emptoris will take some time to become “smarter commerce”, there will be some immediate upsides.Read More
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Cost is the New Black: The Overbearing Paradoxical C-Suite Imperative for 2015
60% of enterprise C-Suites are actively seeking to reduce their reliance on labor in their operations - but most are discovering they need to work smarter before they can work cheaper.Read More
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How As-a-Service is your organization?
This emergence of "As-a-Service" represents the most disruptive series of impacts to the traditional IT and business services industry that we have seen. Whether you buy, provide or advise on business and IT services, your opinions and intentions are critical for our research, so please spend some time completing our study and you could win an Apple Watch. Read More
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HfS Research is five years old!
Would you believe it? HfS Research just turned 5 years oldRead More
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Work smarter, not cheaper: Automation skills have rapidly arrived at the top of the talent agenda
Robotic Process Automation is about working smarter, not cheaper - and the skills needs are red hot in the outsourcing space right nowRead More
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Service providers blame their clients, advisors and analysts for their As-a-Service failure
Lee rhetoric, more dialog among the key stakeholders and better real-world education is the only real formula for successRead More
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HfS officially exits the sourcing advisor business (even though we were never in it in the first place)
HfS fundamentally has no desire to be an advisor shop. Officially.Read More
