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  • Getting good at GBS governance: Why heroes don’t scale

    January 18, 2014 | Phil Fersht

    This governance group has the challenge of managing an increasingly complex environment, with aspirations much loftier than in the past to achieve the right maturity levels to run GBS effectively. Read More

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  • East meets West in a cloudy love-match

    January 16, 2014 | Phil Fersht

    The cost-competitive offshore scale and expertise of HCL meets the onshore domain expertise, legacy integration skills and data center resources of CSC Read More

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  • 2014 shared services and outsourcing outlook Part II: Why GBS will not be bullsh*t

    January 09, 2014 | Phil Fersht

    While several folks make valid arguments why GBS may be a pipe-dream for their own organization (or some of their clients' organizations), we believe they are missing the big picture Read More

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  • Industry analysts: a new world order is already coming

    December 29, 2013 | Phil Fersht

    The future of analysts is about providing clients the experiences they need to be smarter and more effective at what they do, not selling them something pre-packaged that everyone else already has Read More

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  • 2014 shared services and outsourcing outlook Part I: It’s time for enterprises to stop being really good at irrelevant stuff

    December 24, 2013 | Phil Fersht

    In 2014, ambitious operations leaders must begin achieve a certain degree of maturity across their operations before they can really address achieving their desired outcomes Read More

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  • Naomi Bloom: HRO needs to focus on business analyst services, not call center/manual processing

    December 18, 2013 | Phil Fersht

    It will be fascinating to see if the larger SIs and/or HRO providers will be able to craft just the right mix of quality and cost-effectiveness to be successful in delivering much smaller, less labor-intensive and more tool-based implementation and post-implementation HR services. Read More

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  • HR in the Cloud: It won’t kill HRO, but it may kill what’s left of dysfunctional HR…

    December 11, 2013 | Phil Fersht

    The emergence of more affordable Cloud based solutions is finally - after decades of disarray - making it possible for firms to stop starring into the HR abyss and start getting functional again. Read More

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  • And what a week that was! Relive those Blueprint moments…

    December 09, 2013 | Phil Fersht

    Thanks to all of you who made the effort be part of a great December networking escapade in the Big Apple Read More

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  • Why so many cost-obsessed CEOs will fail if they ignore their supplier management capabilities

    December 05, 2013 | Phil Fersht

    Recessions are good times for business leaders who love to focus on containing costs, however, times of recovery are markedly different Read More

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  • We are HfS. Yes we are!

    December 02, 2013 | Phil Fersht

    As we gather the largest-ever superstar assemblage of sourcing leaders in New York, let's have a look back at how we got here as an industry Read More

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