Category: Sourcing Locations
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EXL eyes the enterprise BPO market with acquisition of OPI and the world’s second-most intelligent people
EXL and OPI, two of the smaller Finance and Accounting BPO (F&A BPO) providers, and both recently touted as acquisition candidates in HfS Research's 2011 F&A BPO market landscape, have tied the knot in a surprising merger, in this rapidly-consolidating and transmutating BPO marketRead 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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HfS Podcast: Why Latin America? …And why now?
HfS VP of Marketing Mark Reed-Edwards got together with Esteban Herrera, HfS COO, and Euan Davis, Managing Director of HfS' European Research Practice get together to discuss the LatAm region and its development in the global sourcing industry.Read More
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The truth about Latin American outsourcing…
Today's piece in CIO - "IT Outsourcing in Latin America: 9 Things Your Vendor Won't Tell You" - sparked some further thinking from HfS analyst Esteban Herrera: The truth about Latin American OutsourcingRead More
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Genpact spurns its suitors to IT-enable its BPO, with India’s third largest acquisition
So why did Genpact buy Headstrong, in the third-largest acquisition ever made by an India-based provider, since Wipro picked up InfoCrossing for a cool $600m in 2007, and HCL-Axon for a similar sum, the following year? And, most importantly, what does this mean for the immediate future of the BPO business?Read More
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Genpact looks for added bite with Tiger
After 14 years, the effervescent Pramod Bhasin, now in his 60th year, is handing the reins to “Tiger” Tyagarajan, the company's current COO, and long-serving member of the leadership teamRead More
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The undisputed facts about outsourcing, Part 6: Europeans love money, but hate change
What's driving outsourcing decision-making across the world? HfS Research's new study on global outsourcing adoption reveals some key regional differencesRead More
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Tread Carefully Through Europe
Buyers care where their providers are because stability, talent pool, infrastructure and the business and legal environment, determine how successful the relationship is going to be. Central and Eastern Europe is a fragmented region where cost, quality and scale varies.Read More
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Latin America: The Next Sourcing Frontier or an Afterthought?
We've been encouraged to see many providers paying more than lip service to Latin America as a region for growth and business opportunity. Previously the un-loved stepchild of the outsourcing geographies, Latin America does hold promise for those who approach it the right way—and there is more than one right way to approach it.Read More




