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Dr Charlie airs the BPO potential of East Africa, Part 1
How about exploring an entirely new continent for talent availability that can pull an entirely new lever of efficiency and potential value for your business: East AfricaRead More
Welcome to the Six Tenets of Sourcing 2.0 – where a “lights on” approach might just get you fired
Big and clunky is ugly, lean and scalable is the new corporate sexy.Read More
Replay of “Outsourcing is DEAD! Long Live Outsourcing…”
Click here for the replay & Click here for the slides. Enjoy!Read More
Congratulations and welcome to Christa, Ned, Tom and Jamie!
It gives me great pleasure to announce some imminent new analyst arrivals at HfS, in addition to announcing the promotion of a couple of guys who've been instrumental in the development of this business, which has literately sprung from nowhere in three years to the monstrosity it has become todayRead More
The dreamSource files… I can train my people to have technical skills, but I can’t give them a personality transplant
And over at dreamSource, where 48% of the buyers have experienced strategic skills becoming more important than tactical skills for managing their outsourcing engagements, since they embarked on their initiativeRead More
The dreamSource files… it’s not fair to place the change management onus onto the provider, it’s our accountability to change
And over at dreamSource, where 72% of the buyers work in company's where the CEO on down focus predominantly on cost... Read More
Why American firms are more progressive with outsourcing than the Europeans and Asians
Why is it always the Americans at the head of the queue when it comes to increasing quarterly profit margins? But, even more intriguingly, why are they also leading the way when it comes to attempting to improve their capabilities when they outsource? Our recent State of Outsourcing Study 2013, conducted with the support of KPMG, clearly shows the differing mission-critical business motivations across the main three global regions, when it comes to outsourcingRead More
The dreamSource countdown continues… Meet Mads (Part II)
If you have recovered from the mental impairment caused by the really awful governance dancing, it's time to get back to the serious discussion about the narrowing onshore/offshore cost gap, and diversity in sourcing.... so let's visit the final part of our recent interview with Madelein Smit, outsourcing head at the global logistics giant, CEVA LogisticsRead More
The dreamSource countdown… Meet Mads
Step-up Madelein "Mads" Smit, head of both IT and F&A outsourcing for CEVA LogisticsRead More
