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What the passing of SOPA could mean for your business
Friday's excellent web-discussion involving HfS Research's Jim Slaby.Read More
SOPA-thetic: Using an elephant gun to hunt for butterflies
If you were surprised to find Wikipedia offline yesterday, you weren’t alone: many Internet users were unaware of the widespread one-day online protest against SOPA and PIPA, two bills before the US Congress designed to fight online media piracy.Read More
What are Business Platforms and why they represent the future of outsourcing
The ability to develop some best-in-class processes as "Business Platforms", whether they focus on horizontal or vertical process clusters, is becoming a real differentiator in the market, as buyers seek more standardized solutions from their outsourcing engagements. The gauntlet being laid out to providers, with these Business Platforms, is their ability to support their clients’ transitions quickly and inexpensively. Simply selling “products” is not the concept of business platforms – it is the provider’s ability to work with their customers to facilitate and support the ultimate business outcomes of managing the processes associated with the Business Platform offering.Read More
Why outsourcing professionals must stay in touch with the 99%
Governments are very capable of passing measures very quickly to restrict outsourcing if things get really bad - and they won't have any choice if the 99% demand it. All outsourcing stakeholders - buyers, providers and advisors - need to focus, more than ever, on helping organizations approach outsourcing as one supporting component of a holistic solution.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
