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Tariffs won’t save American industry — They’ll strangle it
Let’s be clear. Tariffs aren't inherently evil. In limited, strategic use, they can buy time for critical industries. But when wielded as a broad, blunt policy — as a primary economic lever — they don’t deliver results. They create a cascade of consequences that hurt far more than they help. Sure, there can always be a few modifications here and a consensus agreement there, but when they are designed to choke the life out of a trading relationship and load costs onto the consumer, the ramifications rarely read to achieving lofty political goals.Read More
Are the Big 4 about to get their lunch eaten by GenAI?
Up until November 30th, 2022, the Big 4 consultants dined on the ineptitude of large enterprises to move bad processes into the cloud, while the Indian heritage outsourcers fed on the tasty scraps of supplying armies of low-wage talent at scale to keep these hulking institutions somehow functioning. Nothing has disrupted the cozy status quo of big enterprise technology transformations more than GenAI. It has been a true leveler across the industry where suddenly everyone is operating on a level playing field, trying to convince the world they have a better GenAI story than their competitors. Our industry has been equalized, and a new set of winners are going to emerge...Read More
Services firms are out of runway. They must forget Labor Arbitrage and conform to Technology Arbitrage
The fundamental value creation lever in the legacy Labor Arbitrage era has been the centralization of people in a global delivery model. The fundamental value lever in the Technology Arbitrage era is all about architecting and orchestrating the rapidly changing technology ecosystem in line with the client’s business model. It’s past time for the IT and BPO Services industry to jump to a new S-curve driven by Technology Arbitrage if they wish to get back to another season of hockey stick growth.Read More
Entering a decade of Total Enterprise Reinvention… Julie Sweet on creating value in the Generative Enterprise
As part of our GenAI Leaders Series, we got time with Accenture CEO Julie Sweet to talk about how the $64 Billion dollar corporation is approaching GenAI.Read More
GenAI is meaningless, unless it is toasted
The tech world must convince people how amazing the GenAI experience is to them, genuinely demonstrating how they can immerse themselves in a new technology that everyone can immerse into their daily lives. GenAI may not be toasted, but it can make you happy.Read More
Krithi’s first TCS re-org… One step forward and two steps back?
Is the new TCS org structure really going to propel the company forward in the AI-driven era where scarce skills in areas such as GenAI are at a premium and intra-company collaboration and training are more critical than ever? Does having an all-male leadership team send the right message to clients and employees, where diversity is so important to its culture and enticing the best young talent? Phil Fersht and Saurabh Gupta look into new TCS CEO K Krithivasan's first major re-organization of his TCS tenure.Read More
Which providers lead sourcing and procurement services in 2023?
The latest Sourcing and Procurement Horizons report is a snapshot of leading procurement service providers' sourcing and procurement services capabilities. The aim of CPOs is to realize the value of procurement beyond costs and savings. We assessed 10 service providers on their capabilities across a defined series of value propositions, execution and innovation, go-to-market strategy, the voice of the customer, and alignment with the HFS OneOffice criteria.Read More
