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Category: Confusing Outsourcing Information
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Confusion-as-a-Service: The massive disconnect between vision and reality
The C-Suite is just living on a different planet from the teams below them trying to keep their businesses functioningRead More
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Weekend Rant: Let’s cut this bullsh*t and have meaningful conversations again (please)
We have to fix our bullsh*t problem, or this industry will fade into irrelevance Read More
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How the gig economy has turned bad analysts into vendor advocates
There's nothing wrong with marketing someone's products or services, just don't pretend you're an "analyst" when you do it!Read More
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Nasscom Wrap: Grasping for digital identity, but needing a dosa reality
I find myself feeling conflicted between excitement and frustration for the future of Indian-centric BPO services.Read More
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So… are these the world’s best outsourcing advisors?
The IAOP has announced it's 2013 "best outsourcing advisors", and kudos to my former employer, Deloitte, for coming top. Credit has to go out to Peter Lowes and his Outsourcing Advisory Services group for their achievement. In addition, KPMG's Shared Services and Advisory Group, led my Cliff Justice, finished in second place - a strong showing and justification of their 2011 acquisition of EquaTerra. The biggest surprises, however, are the absences of ISG, the largest transaction advisor of outsourcing contracts, and PwC...Read More
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So if the rockstars have gone, what’s left in the analyst industry?
Most of the big analyst personalities have seemingly fled the analyst industry... many for the riches on offer from their vendor clients, clearly seeing more ROI from employing them, as opposed to purchasing their firm's services. However, this hasn't prevented the remaining legacy purveyors of analyst services from making a living.Read More
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Why the Indian W-I-T-C-H providers have yet to break the IT Services Top Ten
It would be easy to forgive anyone for assuming that the Indian services majors Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant and HCL (aka the "WITCH" providers) are dominating the global battle for services supremacy, given the hype that surrounds India’s dynamic IT outsourcing economy. However, In spite of their impressive growth over the past ten years, none of the WITCH providers have yet to make the HfS Top 10 of global IT services firms, despite dominating the application development and management businesRead More
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Is it time to de-social our lives?
I would argue that it's actually time to "de-social" our behavior to regain the effectiveness and quality of our interactions and relationships.Read More
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Fooled by Forbes’ fantasy fiction?
One issue dominating the tech-media back channels of late is publisher Forbe’s use of its column “BrandVoice” to blatantly promote various technology products, such as Oracle and SAP, with the advertorials appearing like credible news and opinion articles. Read More
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Accenture de-emphasizes the term “outsourcing” – is this the final death knell for the O word?
Accenture's dropping the term "outsourcing" from its strategy line is the most significant yet in terms of rebranding the outsourcing businessRead More
