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Category: Sourcing Best Practises
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Service providers siloed by vertical industry are stifling innovation with clients
To win more business, outsourcing service providers must innovate by creating and unleashing a multi-client collaborative model that isn’t restricting their clients to their industry vertical silos. HfS research reveals clients’ desire to collaborate with non-competitive firms in other industries is much more powerful; they are reticent to collaborate with firms within their own industry sector. New service delivery models must emerge between collaborating partners that will help them innovate. Read More
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Why HfS is the first analyst to deliver real-time BPO price-benchmarking
HfS today launched the research industry’s first price-benchmarking practice, the HfS BPO PriceIndicator™, to cover business process outsourcing (BPO) functions. These include business processes specific to Finance and Accounting, Procurement, Human Resources and industry-specific outsourcing functions, such as healthcare, insurance and bankingRead More
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The Finance & Accounting BPO market landscape in 2011
This report delivers an unprecedented view of the F&A BPO industry, based on 788 live engagements, where organizations have outsourced two or more core F&A processes to a service provider. In addition to exhaustive contract information, HfS draws upon recent demand-side survey analysis to deliver the complete view of the market dynamics, the service provider landscape and the future expected direction of the industry.Read More
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WellPoint’s governator, Tony Filippone, joins HfS as Research Vice President
Please welcome Mr Anthony Filippone to the hallowed ground of HfS analyst, industry thought-leader, and, most notably, the role of Governator-ExtraordinaireRead More
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NorthgateArinso: Is it ready to give the HRO market a boost?
Despite a challenging economy, NorthgateArinso grew revenues 8.5% in its 2009/2010 fiscal year and increased win rates in its HRO business. The company has made significant investments in its core technology platforms, established an extensive global delivery infrastructure, created a massive library of process standards, is in the midst of a company-wide rollout of Six Sigma, and has been developing the culture and skills it thinks are required for execution excellence and improved customer satisfaction.Read More
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Outsourcing: a symptom of a failing education system?
Most people still claim they really outsource to save money - of course that's an immediate benefit, but you wouldn't even be considering it, if you had operations in place that were really good.Read More
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Where have all the consultants gone?
You’re probably not aware of a very subtle, but tectonic shift going on in the business process outsourcing industry which has implications for all those things that we all tout as benefits of sourcing—innovation, deep domain experience, true client partnershipsRead More
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New HfS Report: “How Latin America Powers Global IT Delivery”
Latin American strategies underpin global delivery with increasingly mature services: Firms investigating service delivery from the region like the cultural familiarity bred by the influence of the US and Europe. Find out "How Latin America Powers Global IT Delivery" by downloadng our new report.Read More
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Want to get innovative? Then give your staff a sense of purpose…
The hidden truths behind what really motivates usRead More
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The Future of Work – Who will lead?
Companies need leaders to start thinking about the future of work as part of their business planning processes. HR leaders are well positioned to understand the capability and talent of the organization. They also have access to more enabling technology they ever before to help engage the entire workforce in creating the future of work at their companies.Read More
