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The Industry Speaks about Cloud, Part IV: Business leaders demand business transformation support – can providers gear-up to help?
Business users want to accelerate to Cloud Business Services while IT wants to mitigate its many risks. We reach an impasse with both business and IT looking for external support to make their move to Cloud Business Services a reality, and the different type of support both sides want point towards a profound reorganization around Cloud.Read More
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“Cloud is bullsh*t” – HCL’s CEO, Vineet Nayar, explains why he said just that
Vineet Nayar, CEO at HCL Technologies, has firmly cemented himself as one of today's outspoken visionaries in the world of IT services. Never afraid to offer an opinion that may rub a few folks the wrong way, the self-styled CEO booked his ticket to notoriety at HCL's analyst conference in Boston this past week, where he'd decribed Cloud, well, as bullsh*t...Read More
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The Industry Speaks about Cloud, Part III: business and IT finally agree – IT must tool-up to enable cloud business services
Savvy CIOs are developing themselves into Cloud-enablers by honing their sourcing and service integration skills. Our Cloud Business Services study, conducted in conjunction with the Outsourcing Unit at the London School of Economics, contrasts many differing views and expectations from business and IT executives about Cloud business services... however, both sides do agree on one thing—the crucial enablement role that IT executives must adopt to provision Cloud business services.Read More
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The social sourcing train is leaving the station. Are you on it?
People are increasingly demanding their daily serving of content served up in more digestible and less headache-inducing chunks, as our latest industry-wide study reveals, where more than 1000 study participants across the sourcing industry have voiced the increasing importance of blogs and social media as one of their preferred learning tools for Cloud Business Services.Read More
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The Industry Speaks about Cloud, Part II: business execs fear its impact on work culture; IT execs doubt their ability to drive competitive advantage
The Cloud Business Services study we just conducted, in conjunction with the Outsourcing Unit at the London School of Economics, has served up some contrasting concerns that business executives are having versus their IT counterparts: its impact on work culture and it's impact on the value of the current IT department.Read More
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Service Integration: Guy Fawkes fireworks or damp squib?
As HfS Research's Euan Davis readies for his annual trip to a bonfire, he muses on fireworks--municipal ones and the type he expected at a session about service integration last night, at PA Consulting Group’s SSON networking eveningRead More
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The Industry Speaks about Cloud, Part I: Business execs are buying-in to Cloud even more than their IT counterparts
Cloud Business Services are no longer hype - both business and IT executives are buying-into the value Cloud can bring to their jobs and their organizations. The ability to access business applications quicker, faster, cheaper and in a virtual business environment are the major drivers - and it's the business side of the house which is even more engaged by the potential value that the IT-side. Read More
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HfS Research will be talking Cloud-sourcing in London this November
You'll have a chance to see HfS Research's European research lead, Euan Davis, up close on November 18 at the IIAR London Forum in Central London from 3:45 – 6:30 pm. The session isubbed the "Cloud," and Euan will be giving the HfS Research view of the Cloud, based on brand-spanking new data our joint study with the London School of Economics, which covered the views and intentions of 1043 companies.Read More
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Will customers buy CSC’s vision?
We liked what we heard at CSC’s European analyst event. The provider outlined two strategies dealing with the short and long term realities of how you, the customer, buys IT and business servicesRead More
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CSC stakes its claim to prosper in the new IT services ecosystem
CSC has struck out in a new direction sketching out a long-term position as a “service integrator” and laying out a cloud strategy that goes beyond the usual hype. The real test is whether CSC can channel its pricing and engagement models, its service management frameworks and—critically—its sales team in the same direction as the new IT services ecosystem emerges. This HfS RAPIDInsight sets out the HfS Research take on CSC’s strategy; what is needs to make it work, and what it means for customers.Read More
