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Category: Outsourcing Heros
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Captain Cliff of the Sourcing Enterprise Part II… The Death of Outsourcing
And welcome back to our interview with KPMG's Captain Cliff who has proclaimed the Death of Outsourcing in a recent white paperRead More
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Captain Cliff of the Sourcing Enterprise… Part I
allow us to introduce Cliff Justice, KPMG's very own kingpin of the extended enterprise, who's calmly building out one of the most impressive collections of experienced sourcing operators and thinkers in the global shared services and outsourcing industryRead More
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Shock, horror! Some vendors have bought the right to ”edit” analysts’ research…
Ventana Research CEO, Mark Smith, convincingly blogs that some major vendors actually have contracts with some analyst firms that give them rights to review, edit and approve research written about them. Read More
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Doctor Disruptive joins HfS to lead Social Business research
Global business practices are starting to become disrupted in ways that is shocking many firms into retrenching, while others are realizing they have little choice but to embrace the change, otherwise get left behind. Jonathan Yarmis, aka "Doctor Disruptive" has crafted a trade where he combines an intimate knowledge of technology, media and global business dynamics to bring to you a unique research practice dedicated entirely to covering the impact that social media and disruptive technologies are having on global business dynamics and operations. Read More
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Why are so many enterprises struggling to move more process into their shared services and outsourcing?
On the surface, it appears that most enterprises today are taking full advantage of both shared services and outsourcing. However, HfS research’s latest survey data, conducted with accounting association ACCA, emphatically demonstrates that only a modest fraction of business process has actually been shifted to either the shared service center or the outsourcing partner. In most cases, over two-thirds of transactional process work is still, bewilderingly, sitting in the business units, despite the proven business benefits of centralizing processes. Read More
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And for you low performers who missed the high performance BPO discussion… here’s the replay
Missed today's revved-up BPO discussion? How could you? What else were you doing?Read More
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Pragmatic Pete to pontificate a panoply of personnel policy
Here's Pete Ackerson introducing himself as the newest HfS Research Fellow for HR Shared Services and OutsourcingRead More
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Are you ready to Turbo-charge your BPO?
Here's a rare chance to learn how some organizations have evolved their BPO relationships from being merely "operationally efficient" through to being genuinely "transformative". Please join us June 20th Wed, June 20 at 16:00 CET | 15:00 BST | 10:00 EDT | 07:00 PDT | 22:00 SGT for a discussion on how to add some serious velocity to the BPO experience.Read More
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HfS Research announces its inaugural research advisory board!
HfS invited a great group of people to form its research advisory board to help shape the HfS research agenda: some have have real experience executing operations in buy-side enterprises; some are the most influential thought leaders in the business services and technology industry; some have founded research companies; some are leading academics; some are industry events CEOs. Read More
