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Getting good at GBS governance: Why heroes don’t scale
This governance group has the challenge of managing an increasingly complex environment, with aspirations much loftier than in the past to achieve the right maturity levels to run GBS effectively.Read More
2014 shared services and outsourcing outlook Part II: Why GBS will not be bullsh*t
While several folks make valid arguments why GBS may be a pipe-dream for their own organization (or some of their clients' organizations), we believe they are missing the big pictureRead More
2014 shared services and outsourcing outlook Part I: It’s time for enterprises to stop being really good at irrelevant stuff
In 2014, ambitious operations leaders must begin achieve a certain degree of maturity across their operations before they can really address achieving their desired outcomesRead More
HR in the Cloud: It won’t kill HRO, but it may kill what’s left of dysfunctional HR…
The emergence of more affordable Cloud based solutions is finally - after decades of disarray - making it possible for firms to stop starring into the HR abyss and start getting functional again.Read More
Why so many cost-obsessed CEOs will fail if they ignore their supplier management capabilities
Recessions are good times for business leaders who love to focus on containing costs, however, times of recovery are markedly differentRead More
We are HfS. Yes we are!
As we gather the largest-ever superstar assemblage of sourcing leaders in New York, let's have a look back at how we got here as an industryRead More
Can HR ever overcome its obsession with the automation of obsolete processes?
Why do so many HR executives obsess with administering irrelevant processes when they should be helping their firms' managers get the best out of their staff?Read More
Traditional outsourcing advisory is dead.
And when the world's number 1 management thinker, Clayton Christensen, writes about Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption, you know it's officially game-over for the way consultants have traditionally delivered effort-based high-cost projects for wizening clientsRead More
What happens when you put the leaders of an industry in one room?
However which was we look at this, this is going to be one helluva crowd - with a bevvy of buyside sourcing and shared services leaders from 60 major organizations, in addition to this motley crewRead More
