Happy Birthday… HfS Research!

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Yes, quite how this ramshackle outfit today celebrates its first birthday is quite beyond me. Exactly one year ago, we bravely declared we were a research company, with a bunch of friends, stringers and part-timers.

Today, we are a fully-loaded experienced research organization with depth and breadth of analyst talent across North America and Europe – with further expansion plans imminent.  Hell, decisions used to be so much easier when we had no money…

But seriously, all I can say is a big fat thank you for all your support, encouragement and belief in us as we’ve built something truly  game-changing in our industry – and one stat says it all:  One year ago we had 16,000 subscribers; today we just surpassed 50,000. One can only guess where we’ll be in another 12 months.

Here’s a shout out to a few of you who’ve played your part…

Amber Wagenknecht (Accenture): For the warning signs (and my ignoring them)

Anthony Calabrese: Just being a sourcing beast

Bill Kutik: Making me laugh – out loud

Bob Cecil and Lowell Williams (EquaTerra/KPMG): Being awesome to work with

Brian Robinson (HfS): From tenant to employee… a truly loyal chap: )

Bruce McCracken: Being there at the start

Chris Barney (Genpact): For Cardiff…

Chris Gattenio, Don Schulman, Bill Payne and MSR (IBM): Believing in us

David Poole and Carina Smith (Capgemini): Believing in us, oh and making the Magic Kingdom bearable

Dawn Evans (SIG): For your super confidence

Deb Kops (Sourcing Change & HfS): Sounding-board and under-rated marketeer

Dennis Howlett: Just being Dennis

Derek Sappenfield (PwC): For believing in us

Ed Nair (Global Services Media): Being a great supporter and simply a great guy

Emma Beaumont and Sarah Clayton (SSON): Making some super cardboard cutouts – and all the plugs during lift-off

Esteban Herrera (HfS): For raising our game

Euan Davis (HfS): For the blind leap of faith

Frank Casale (Outsourcing Institute): For finding a reason to call me everyday

Frank D’Souza (Cognizant): Being our first client

Google Apps: For a cheap, reliable IT platform

Graham Russell (Astrazeneca): The guaranteed entertainment

Jamie Snowdon (HfS): For choosing HfS to make his comeback

Jason Busch (SpendMatters & HfS): For showing how to run a small, feisty business

Jay Desai (Northern Trust): Just calling it how it is

Jeanne Achille (Devon Gp): Giving us a professional veneer (when we really needed one!)

John Hindle, Sarah Thomas, Shari Wenker, Mike Salvino and Kevin Campbell (Accenture): Believing in us from the start, oh and plenty of Pink Champagne and Formula 1

John Transier (Unilever): A great sport

Jolie Newman: Just being helpful

Jonty Woodhouse: For making us legal!

Lee Coulter (Acsension Health): Making me laugh – from the start

Mark Reed-Edwards (HfS): For putting up with me

Michelle Liukin (HfS): The invoice queen

Mike Atwood: Being there in the early days

Mum and Dad: For having complete confidence this would work

My wife: For putting up with all this cr*p

Peter Allen (CSC): Being such a great thinker

Pramod Bhasin, Tiger, Gianni Giacomelli and Bob Pryor (Genpact): Great contributors and supporters

Prof. Leslie Willcocks and Dr. Will Venters (at the London School of Economic): For flouting establishment and partnering with us

Ray Wang (Constellation): Fellow analyst rebel

Ritesh Idnani, Pranay Juyal and Wendy Shlensky (Infosys): Believing in us, and teaching us how to negotiate!

Roxanna Wall (UBS): For always believing in us

Simon Newton (Kimberly Clark): A great sport and a great guy

Stan Lepeak (EquaTerra/KPMG): Keeping the faith

Stephanie Overby (CIO Magazine):  For giving us media-cred

The Enterprise Irregulars: For providing a remarkable amount of entertainment and value

The old AMR team (now Gartner): Providing such a great platform for HfS – and not suing us!

The ValueNotes team: For being reliable

Tony Filippone (WellPoint): The vendor governor

TPI: Being good sports…I know I give you a hard time : )

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  1. Many congratulations, Phil and team. You are doing an absolutely wonderful job for the analyst industry – and the services market,

    James D.

  2. Many congratulation HFS – quite the achievement! You perform such a valuable service – and resource – for the outsourcing industry,

    Jason Brevitz

  3. Phil and team:

    How time flies – may your second year bring you even more success and deserved recognition,

    Robert Stainrod

  4. Excellent achievement, HFS team. I did wonder at the beginning how this would work, and you’ve really proven the Research 2.0 model works. Bravo!

    Johnny

  5. Happy Birthday, HfS Research. You have worked wonders to grow so quickly and become such a cornerstone of the research industry,

    Warren Miles

  6. Many congratulations to the HfS Research team. You’ve been a credit to the sourcing industry with your excellent research and blogs,

    Alain

  7. Phil and team: just promise you’re not going to become a mini-Gartner -:)

    In all seriousness, well done on achieving this milestone – you should all be very proud,

    Eric

  8. Well done on achieving your first year as a research company! It’s great to come here and find out what’s “really” going in in outsourcing,

    Amanda Hare

  9. Congratulations on a well deserved one year run. Looking forward to many more such years to come! Thanks for a great insights into the real outsourcing world !

  10. Congratulations on a well deserved one year run. Looking forward to many more such years to come! Thanks for the great insights into the real outsourcing world !

  11. Happy Birthday Phil & HfS! You’ve come along way in a year and we’re looking forward to working with you for many more. Cheers to you all, Wendy Shlensky

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