Category: Buyers’ Sourcing Best Practices
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Are the Big 4 about to get their lunch eaten by GenAI?
Up until November 30th, 2022, the Big 4 consultants dined on the ineptitude of large enterprises to move bad processes into the cloud, while the Indian heritage outsourcers fed on the tasty scraps of supplying armies of low-wage talent at scale to keep these hulking institutions somehow functioning. Nothing has disrupted the cozy status quo of big enterprise technology transformations more than GenAI. It has been a true leveler across the industry where suddenly everyone is operating on a level playing field, trying to convince the world they have a better GenAI story than their competitors. Our industry has been equalized, and a new set of winners are going to emerge...Read More
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Services firms are out of runway. They must forget Labor Arbitrage and conform to Technology Arbitrage
The fundamental value creation lever in the legacy Labor Arbitrage era has been the centralization of people in a global delivery model. The fundamental value lever in the Technology Arbitrage era is all about architecting and orchestrating the rapidly changing technology ecosystem in line with the client’s business model. It’s past time for the IT and BPO Services industry to jump to a new S-curve driven by Technology Arbitrage if they wish to get back to another season of hockey stick growth.Read More
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Entering a decade of Total Enterprise Reinvention… Julie Sweet on creating value in the Generative Enterprise
As part of our GenAI Leaders Series, we got time with Accenture CEO Julie Sweet to talk about how the $64 Billion dollar corporation is approaching GenAI.Read More
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Service providers are investing ahead of the curve in GenAI, but are enterprises truly ready to partner with them?
Which of today's leading service providers have the real chops to provide GenAI value at scale? Who's actively backing up their big rhetoric with real know-how and capability? Well... after an exhausting process of researching the 35 market leaders, their customers and partners, we can provide the industry's first real view of how the GenAI services landscape is shaking out.Read More
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Accenture, Capgemini, Genpact, IBM, Infosys, TCS—the F&A entourage leading the way to Horizon 3 outcomes
HFS conducted an exhaustive research exercise into 15 of the key service providers in the latest Horizons report on F&A Service Providers, 2023, by diving deep into the capabilities of each and how they have contributed to the changing F&A landscape over the last year. Read More
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Employers can save $350 Billion a year if they shift to a self-insured healthcare model
Self-insured employers have a generational opportunity to course-correct on the health and care needs of their employees in an apolitical, sustainable, and materially cost-effective mannerRead More
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Fighting financial crime with GenAI… less Gen-wash and more Genpact please!
Genpact makes a bold step forward to make GenAI real and impactful in fighting financial crimeRead More
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Are you stuck in a transactional workforce? Only a quarter of firms are going in the right direction with their people
If your colleagues aren't passionate about your brand, barely enjoy working with each other, are struggling to delight your customers, or grow your partnerships, this post-pandemic business climate could well see your business fall away as more adventurous, disruptive, and passionate businesses steal your mindshare and usurp your competitive position. You need to evaluate your own career trajectory and decide whether you have the appetite to be on the winning side in this emerging AI economyRead More
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GBS (Global Business Services) is dead. Long live GBS (Generative Business Services)
For more than two decades, Global Business Services (GBS), the centralized service delivery model leveraging a mix of internal shared services and/or 3rd party outsourcing, has been a tried and tested modus operandi for large enterprises to save costs, drive process discipline and improve compliance. However, with the rapid advent of real generative AI capability, the current GBS model is dated, fails to deliver much (if any) value beyond cost and efficiency and has struggled to create viable career opportunities for ambitious talent. Let’s face it, GBS is still stuck squarely in the back office and fails to provide a career track for the best and brightest to pivot their firms into the generative AI era.Read More
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Krithi’s first TCS re-org… One step forward and two steps back?
Is the new TCS org structure really going to propel the company forward in the AI-driven era where scarce skills in areas such as GenAI are at a premium and intra-company collaboration and training are more critical than ever? Does having an all-male leadership team send the right message to clients and employees, where diversity is so important to its culture and enticing the best young talent? Phil Fersht and Saurabh Gupta look into new TCS CEO K Krithivasan's first major re-organization of his TCS tenure.Read More














