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Eight top tips to prevent outsourcing providers committing harakiri in the sales process
Let's save you nice outsourcing providers the time, trouble and expense of getting advice on how not to sell yourself, and give you all the advice you need, right here, right now - and for absolutely nothingRead More
Curious about Kurien? TK talks to HfS about his plans for Wipro
Wipro's CEO T. K. Kurien talks to HfS about his plans for WiproRead More
As Wipro drops out of the “offshore big three”, high-time to offload Infocrossing?
Several leading service providers have been taking a long hard look at themselves in recent months as they come to terms with a new breed of competitor, increasing demands - and pricing requirements - from clients. There include the likes of CSC, HP and, more recently, leading Indian HQed provider Wipro. HfS analyst Robert McNeill takes a further look at Wipro's current predicament and poses the question: Is it Time for Wipro to sell Infocrossing?Read More
HfS secures the services of Jim Slaby
We're delighted to unveil a very special talent to the sourcing industry - a respected veteran of the infrastructure security world and now seeking to ply his knowledge and experience to supporting global sourcing environments: Jim Slaby. Read More
Is the HP Band-Aid being re-applied?
We gave Léo Apotheker a strong benefit of the doubt when he recently ripped off HPs proverbial Band-Aid and made a series of tough announcements that could steer HP on a more coherent enterprise path. Sadly for Léo, his board is clearly in a position where they are unhappy with the progress made under him and want to bring in a very different personality in eBay's Meg WhitmanRead More
Too many providers and advisors are being myopic with their clients and failing to understand their business pressures
Our latest study shows that many buyer executives are, in actuality, in violent disagreement with many provider and sourcing advisor executives that they their business leaders are too “short-term focused”Read More
Want to get smart about sourcing for Cloud?
This report authored by HfS Research and Loeb&Loeb provides both Business-function and IT executives with a detailed assessment of Cloud adoption strategies, an analysis of business benefits, concerns, challenges and contractual issues that need to be addressed and discusses the key service providers provisioning Cloud Computing services in today’s market.Read More
Cheap and quick please! Wizening buyers are seeking help from easily-accessible sources
When we ask them buyers they're foraging for help and information with outsourcing strategy-making in the coming months, the results are simple: they are turning to whatever sourcing are most easily-accessible and inexpensively-available to themRead More
HfS ties up with Gutenberg to bring sourcing insight to a mainstream business audience
Today marks an exciting day in the development of HfS Research as a global advisory analyst organization - we have selected sourcing and software PR and communications specialist Gutenberg to orchestrate our global research communications to the Americas, European and Indian markets. Read More
The undisputed facts about outsourcing, Part 8: Industries experiencing secular change have more aggressive outsourcing plans
Those organizations being impacted by radical, fundamental shifts to their very industry economics, are more prepared than ever to admit they need to look outside of their current organization boundaries to keep their business operations cost-competitive. Simply-put, secular change crystallizes options for businesses and the outsourcing planning process often becomes more clear-cut as a result.Read More
