Category: HR Strategy
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Day Two at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago…
And, for the first time ever, an analyst has managed to write a "second day" blog at an industry event. So, without further ado, here's HfS' Peter Ackerson with Day TwoRead More
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Day Three at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago…
Contrary to Mr. Fersht’s implications that any analyst would desert his/her post before an event is concluded, this analyst was there at 8:00 AM for Mark Hurd’s (Oracle) presentation and remained there until 12:30 for one last discussion. So without further ado, here is the final installment...Read More
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A BIG thanks to all of you who took part in the exceptional HfS 50 Blueprint Sessions 2.0
A BIG thank you to all of you who took part in the exceptional HfS 50 Blueprint Sessions 2.0 this week in BostonRead More
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It’s true! Freakonomics’ Stephen Dubner is coming to dreamSource…
If you've ever had some to read Freakonomics, you'll know how excited we are to announce that co-author Steven Dubner has agreed to speak at our dreamSource event this spring.Read More
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If outsourcing were an employee, it would be fired… Part 1
For those of you attending our dreamSource summit this Spring, Lee and I will co-host a session entitled "If outsourcing were an employee, it would be fired". Lee, who today has built and now leads shared services for heathcare provider, Ascension Health, caught up with us last week to talk about the session and why we called it just that...Read More
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Outsourcing may be battered, bruised and vilified… so why is only a twentieth of enterprises planning to reduce it in 2013?
Make no bones about it: 2012 was a pretty dire year for the industry known as "outsourcing". However, brand new data from our State of Outsourcing 2013 Study conducted with the support of KPMG, and the largest-ever research survey focused on IT and business function outsourcing, clearly shows that the majority of enterprises are not only aggressively focused on increasing their outsourcing portfoilios, but many are now taking a more mature and realistic approach.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
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TCS breaks into the HfS Global IT Services Top 10, with Cognizant poised to follow
As we predicted last year, TCS has now become the first of the Indian majors to break the IT Services Top 10 for revenues, replacing CGIRead More
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BPO: Pronounced dead, but still very much alive
BPO is just at the beginning of a much more dynamic phase of its existence and it at least three years' away from being put to bed.Read More
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Outsourcing advisors must be governance experts armed with research if they want to survive
Advisors need to provider governance support and research in order to surviveRead More




