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Surviving the Aftermath of a Lift and Shift Transition
Well, now you’ve done it. Instead of fixing things first, you outsourced your processes almost completely intact. The result? Your junky processes are now in the (hopefully) capable hands of your lower cost vendor and, not surprisingly, the outcomes are the same.Read More
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“Actionable Intelligence”: Our research alliance with EquaTerra
Horses for Sources is excited to announce a major development in our journey to be a truly distinctive analyst voice in the global services industry. Today, we are officially engaged in a research alliance with leading global business advisory firm EquaTerra to develop a new category of data-driven research, ‘Actionable Intelligence’.Read More
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Preaching Process with Pramod: Genpact’s CEO discusses the New Relentless Economy, Part I
In order to help us grasp how the global provider community is reponding to this new relentless environment, we have engaged a number of CEOs of the leading providers to share with us their frank views of the changing world, how they survived the Recession, and how they intend to shape their business to support tomorrow's winners. To begin this series, we caught up with Genpact's President and CEO, Pramod Bhasin, and are delighted to feature some his thoughts from a very engaging discussion Read More
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The Industry Speaks, Part III: Demand for outsourcing is reaching new heights, but will vendors disappoint?
What are customers intending to do this year with their outsourcing strategies? When when we spoke to 1055 customers, intermediaries and vendors across the global sourcing industry earlier this month, they gave us the real picture Read More
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Buy some innovation right here… just talk to Bob
Eradicating the Innovation Dearth in Business Process Outsourcing: Practical Advice on how to Achieve it. A discussion between Phil Fersht and Bob Cecil. Read More
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Sal-sourcing in the real world, Part I
Mike Salvino - or simply "Sal" to his friends and colleagues, has brought a real air or pragmatism to Accenture, where he now leads the firm's global BPO business. Read Part I of his interview with Horses for Sources.Read More
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Cog and Gen getting it on? Naaaahhhhh
Lots of frantic noise this week that Cog has been making romantic overtones to Genpact - with India's press jumping on speculation. Like any other industry observer, you can certainly see lots of romantic potential here - Wall Street's darlings of BPO and ADM tying the knot to frighten the life out of Accenture, IBM, Infosys et al. HoweverI'm afraid this one just ain't gonna happen anytime soonRead More
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The hunters and the hunted: Indian BPOs readying for a rebound
As the world recovers from recession, the major Indian BPO providers eagerly await a return to the BPO boom, which has paused in the past 18 months as companies have sought to cope with riding out the tough-times. While the bounce-back has hardly been resurgent, BPO is clearly firmly on the corporate agenda and many of the leading Indian service providers are expanding staff, acquiring competitors, and making new marketing plans to widen market share and penetrate new sectors, such as the mid-market. Read More
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Up in the air with Ritesh Idnani… Part I
Several people at Infosys have told me that noone spends more time traveling across the globe than the COO for their BPO business... Ritesh Idnani. So when we teed up an interview with him, I asked him how many airmiles he has racked up, and his response was simply "am getting close to George Clooney's character in the movie Up in the Air."Read More
