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How the fungibility of tech talent will save tech services’ drift into mediocrity
Phil Fersht talks with Ravi Kumar to get his perspective on the current crisis engulfing tech services to attract the best and brightest - and reverse this depressing drift toward becoming a commodity business. Read More
Concentrix doubles down on Webhelp to dominate traditional call center… despite autonomous CX changing the narrative
With Concentrix's mammoth acquisition of Webhelp, has the $125 billion world of call centers really become so dull that the only thing left to talk about is who’s the biggest?Traditional call center services are extremely ripe for disruption, with huge costs to be saved with the smart deployment of autonomous technologies. There are ample opportunities for tech-capable service providers to attack the CX space with digital offerings that are not dependent on voice-based butts-on-seats. So where's the real value in this 'traditional' acquisition for Concentrrix? Read More
HFS Horizons: Digital Engineering Service Providers, 2023
The HFS Horizons: Digital Engineering Service Providers, 2023 report examines service providers’ roles in digital engineering aligning enterprise objectives with service provider value. We assessed 25 service providers across their value propositions (the why), execution and innovation capabilities (the what), go-to-market strategy (the how), and market impact criteria (the so what) to best understand and plot the value they offer to their digital engineering clients. Read More
HFS launches large language search capability to revolutionize research access
HFS Research, the leading analyst firm focused on the autonomous enterprise, today unveiled the first analyst search capability based on Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) to search the HFS Web. Read More
2022 was The Great Resignation… 2023 is becoming The Great Freakout
Massive tech layoffs, back-to-office mandates, a highly-uncertain economic and political climate, and an epidemic of banks almost collapsing dominate the headlines, and suddenly the workplace power dynamic has shifted squarely from the jaded employee-fuelled Great Resignation to something resembling a great workplace freakout. Read More
One clear process intelligence market leader emerges
The 'HFS Horizons Process Intelligence Products 2023' evaluates leading process mining and task mining vendors’ capabilities. Process intelligence products have the potential to help enterprises significantly impact operations and tackle technical and process debt. Read More
The pandemic-induced tech binge is over and the cloud champagne has gone flat
Brand new data from over 500 IT leaders across the global 2000 tells an ugly story of how quickly the cloud bingeing is grinding to a halt, with only a third of enterprises currently staying the course with their current IT sourcing investments. Read More
SVB failure: The ripple effect could trigger a serious innovation and financial crisis
With the collapse of SVB, an estimated 1000 tech start-ups will be unable to make payroll, and a further 2000 will be clinging on to liquidity for dear life. The future of America's innovation - and the world's innovation - is hanging by a thread. Read More
New HFS Horizons Report! Retail banks aggressively pursue new forms of value
The HFS Horizons Report: The Best Service Providers for Retail Banks, 2023 assesses how well service providers are helping their retail banking clients embrace innovation and realize value across three distinct horizons: Digital, Experience, and Growth. Read More
We can believe whatever we choose to believe, and be whatever we want to be… with ChatGPT
We can believe whatever we choose to believe and be whatever we want to be... with ChatGPTAnything can be modified to suit our agendas. Reality is optional, folks 😉 Read More
