Category: Captives and Shared Services Strategies

  • The Sport of Kings – Why Euan Davis decided to run with the horses

    October 21, 2010 |

    We all make curious decisions in life, like when you accepted your mum's Facebook invitation... or when Bill O'Reilly decided to be born. However, these pale in comparison when one of Europe's finest services analysts traded the corporate upper-echelons of Forrester Research to help kick-start a quirky little feisty research upstart, that was launched out of a blog - with a name no-one the left side of the Atlantic understands. But it happened: Euan Davis really did join HfS Research! Read More

  • Meet the sourcing gangsters in Chicago

    August 06, 2010 |

    HfS has teamed with its networking partner, SSON, to present a superior discussion across the world of finance and sourcing, with Jay Desai, one of the buy-side's most respected voices for sourcing governance, Capgemini's own sourcing sherif David Poole, the pontiff of procurement Jason Busch... all moderated by HfS.Read More

  • BPO’s billion dollar best-kept secret: Part I

    July 01, 2010 |

    There are a lot of secrets in the BPO business, however, one best-kept secret that is worth revealing, is the Xchanging story. The the UK-headquartered firm is the largest purelay BPO provider today, with revenues over $1.1bn. Read More

  • The Finance & Accounting BPO market landscape in 2011

    April 20, 2011 |

    This report delivers an unprecedented view of the F&A BPO industry, based on 788 live engagements, where organizations have outsourced two or more core F&A processes to a service provider. In addition to exhaustive contract information, HfS draws upon recent demand-side survey analysis to deliver the complete view of the market dynamics, the service provider landscape and the future expected direction of the industry.Read More

  • WellPoint’s governator, Tony Filippone, joins HfS as Research Vice President

    April 25, 2011 |

    Please welcome Mr Anthony Filippone to the hallowed ground of HfS analyst, industry thought-leader, and, most notably, the role of Governator-ExtraordinaireRead More

  • Special Webinar: Meet HfS Research Up Close and Personal this Thursday

    May 02, 2011 |

    IG President and CEO Dawn Evans will join HfS Founder and CEO Phil Fersht, along with HfS COO Esteban Herrera, new HfS Research Governator VP Tony Filippone, and HfS VP of Marketing Mark Reed-Edwards for an hour-long look at HfS. You'll find out more about the exciting new partnership between HfS and SIG. we'll discuss the HfS research agenda, what's in store for 2011, and how you can get involved, access the research and collaborate with HfS analysts and other SIG members about next practices for sourcing and businessRead More

  • New HfS Report: “How Latin America Powers Global IT Delivery”

    March 15, 2011 |

    Latin American strategies underpin global delivery with increasingly mature services: Firms investigating service delivery from the region like the cultural familiarity bred by the influence of the US and Europe. Find out "How Latin America Powers Global IT Delivery" by downloadng our new report.Read More

  • HfS to “lift the lid” on the sourcing industry… with Outsource Magazine

    March 29, 2011 |

    HfS and Outsource Magazine have formed a lid-lifting media partnership... here are the detailsRead More

  • HfS Podcast: Why Latin America? …And why now?

    April 05, 2011 |

    HfS VP of Marketing Mark Reed-Edwards got together with Esteban Herrera, HfS COO, and Euan Davis, Managing Director of HfS' European Research Practice get together to discuss the LatAm region and its development in the global sourcing industry.Read More

  • Genpact spurns its suitors to IT-enable its BPO, with India’s third largest acquisition

    April 07, 2011 |

    So why did Genpact buy Headstrong, in the third-largest acquisition ever made by an India-based provider, since Wipro picked up InfoCrossing for a cool $600m in 2007, and HCL-Axon for a similar sum, the following year? And, most importantly, what does this mean for the immediate future of the BPO business?Read More