Category: Digital Transformation
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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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Ray Kurzweil to Keynote the HFS Spring Summit 2024!
We are thrilled to announce Ray Kurzweil as our first confirmed keynote at the HFS Spring Summit 2024, scheduled to take place from May 8th to May 9th in New York.Read More
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Industry Cloud must be about value creation, not re-badging IP… Unveiling the HFS Industry Cloud Continuum
Many hyperscalers and service providers are merely repackaging and rebadging existing IP and marketing it as “Industry Cloud.” However, at HFS we believe Industry Cloud can become the Holy Grail for Cloud-native transformation, but only if the focus is on new business models and value chain disruption.Read More
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2023 is the year of ‘The Autonomous Enterprise’ as economics trigger change
Inflation-driven pressures will likely culminate in a huge wave of job reductions, sparking the demand for autonomous technologies to fill the voidRead More
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The OneOffice Data Cycle: Data is your strategy, automation your mindset, AI your autonomy
To be a truly autonomous organization, the principles of OneOffice hold truer than ever: workflows need to execute in real-time between customers and employees - and engage partners in your ecosystem. OneOffice is about understanding and discovering the data you must have to win in your market - right now in real-time - as the market environment keeps changing.Read More
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Automation doesn’t dictate why we do things; It must dictate how we do them
10 years since HFS introduced RPA to the industry, and we’re finally focusing on automation as a value-lever that drives business outcomes. The pandemic has shifted the automation focus from creating efficiencies in the back office to delivering immediate business impact, where talent shortages can be overcome, where digital workflows can operate despite broken supply chains, and where businesses can function effectively in their virtual and hyperconnected ecosystems.Read More
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HFS makes a dash for the Ash… Ashish Chaturvedi joins the analyst dream team
Ashish Chaturvedi is taking on a global Practice Leader role for HFS Research, based out of Bangalore, where he previously worked as a Principal Analyst and Program Lead for sourcing advisor ISGRead More
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Is it Aiman Ezzat? It most certainly is!
As it approaches its $20bn revenue milestone, it's high time we caught up with Group CEO Aiman Ezzat to understand what's driving this growth since he took the helm over two years agoRead More
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Welcome to new normalization… not necessarily ropy recession
We might be finally on a weird and rocky road to a much more normal future, compared to our highly-abnormal recent past. We may be experiencing unprecedented economic and societal challenges, but we should take solace in the fact that things are at their inflationary peak, and we are still moving forward as an economy. The fundamentals underneath it all are strong...Read More