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Category: Global Business Services
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GBS (Global Business Services) is dead. Long live GBS (Generative Business Services)
For more than two decades, Global Business Services (GBS), the centralized service delivery model leveraging a mix of internal shared services and/or 3rd party outsourcing, has been a tried and tested modus operandi for large enterprises to save costs, drive process discipline and improve compliance. However, with the rapid advent of real generative AI capability, the current GBS model is dated, fails to deliver much (if any) value beyond cost and efficiency and has struggled to create viable career opportunities for ambitious talent. Let’s face it, GBS is still stuck squarely in the back office and fails to provide a career track for the best and brightest to pivot their firms into the generative AI era.Read More
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The Six Principles of The Autonomous Enterprise
An autonomous enterprise is one whose leadership continuously seeks to refine the data it needs in real-time to be successful. Its governance capability ensures it has the talent, tech infrastructure, automation, and AI to deliver the data that will drive success with minimal manual interventions that impede progress and speed. The ultimate goal of an autonomous enterprise allows us humans to remove ourselves from some parts of the system so that we can make continuous improvements to the ecosystem as a whole.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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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
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It needn’t be hell… with Nigel
Phil Fersht talks to new HFS Chief Client Officer, Nigel EdwardsRead More
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Time for the Foster posture as Mark puts his own stamp on IBM services
Join HFS CEO Phil Fersht in conversation with Mark Foster, SVP of IBM Services, to discuss the tidal push of transformation and your place in it.Read More
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Are you ready for the HFS OneOffice Digital Symposium?
The countdown has officially begun for the first HFS One Office Digital Symposium on June 8 and 9. HFS CMO Nischala Murthy Kaushik spoke with Phil Fersht to learn more about the complete story around the symposiumRead More
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Is automation the next Trumpism?
How are the US Elections impacting Global Sourcing and what strategic role can play automation in the ensuing discussions?Read More
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Wow… the UK really is becoming an attractive nearshore sourcing location
While the USA and China are no surprise as their host the world's largest economies and businesses, the UK is the surprise mover, as political conditions have created a more competitive market to invest in support services. Read More
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How Generative and Agentic AI are Supercharging the OneOffice Data Cycle
We finally have an injection of rocket fuel from Generative and Agentic AI to create intelligent agents that can sense, decide, and act with autonomy... as long as we have our data strategy right. To be a truly autonomous organization, the principles of OneOffice hold truer than ever: workflows executed in real-time between customers and employees that engage partners right across our business ecosystems.Read More
