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2022 was The Great Resignation… 2023 is becoming The Great Freakout
Massive tech layoffs, back-to-office mandates, a highly-uncertain economic and political climate, and an epidemic of banks almost collapsing dominate the headlines, and suddenly the workplace power dynamic has shifted squarely from the jaded employee-fuelled Great Resignation to something resembling a great workplace freakout.Read More
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
re:Invent or re:Position? AWS tries to ‘out Google’ Google on the importance of your data strategy
AWS could lose steam as the migration to the cloud, as a technology platform, gives way to the cloud’s role in making data a business asset. While AWS's growth numbers are still holding up, there could be significant changes on the horizon as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) makes up lost ground with its approach to a data-centric cloud environment.Read More
Employees are bored and fearless to move, but see real potential if their leaders realize its no longer 2005
Service provider leaders must get their heads out of the sand and challenge both their clients and their staff to raise the value of their partnerships. The problem ultimately lies with bad leadership, not bad working attitudes.Read More
Goodbye Top Ten and Hello HFS Horizons!
We are unveiling "HFS Horizons" to align the performance of service providers and tech suppliers with the outcomes they help their clients define, the great experiences their clients enjoy, and the synergies their clients are developing across their ecosystem partners to create new sources of value.Read More
Why you may regret going back to the office…
Why you may regret going back to the office...Read More
Today’s work mindset is destroying the very fabric that keeps great companies together
With such a global assault on the stability of our lives, shouldn’t this be a time when we find some solace with our colleagues? Isn’t this a time when our bosses and colleagues are people with whom we can share our concerns and find some comfort in working together? Because the more we distance ourselves from our workplace, the more we are cutting off a valuable place that can help us through these challenging times.Read More
ERM, EY, IBM, Accenture, and Capgemini tip-top the HFS Sustainability Top 10
I sat down with Josh Matthews, our Practice Leader for sustainability, to dig into the results from this new research.Read More
The new work environment: unstructured, empathetic and team-focused
Management is more than dolling out tasks and conducting awkward performance reviews… it’s about getting to know what makes your people tick. Today's unstructured work environment is based on trust and closer emotional relationships between managers and colleaguesRead More
Our world is spiralling out of control… we must be a bit smarter to get through this
All the excesses of the past 14 years are converging into a maelstrom of converging dynamics – the likes of which we have never experienced in such a worrying combination. The post-pandemic growth bubble has burst and we must open our eyes to the new reality of our business environment. Anyone who claims they can see what the world will look like in a year simply isn’t human. Or isn’t a robot either… We must recognize these are highly abnormal times and grind through them.Read More
