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As Wipro drops out of the “offshore big three”, high-time to offload Infocrossing?
Several leading service providers have been taking a long hard look at themselves in recent months as they come to terms with a new breed of competitor, increasing demands - and pricing requirements - from clients. There include the likes of CSC, HP and, more recently, leading Indian HQed provider Wipro. HfS analyst Robert McNeill takes a further look at Wipro's current predicament and poses the question: Is it Time for Wipro to sell Infocrossing? Read More
A bunch of people talking, thinking, and writing about work but no one actually does real work
Isn't it refreshing when you read someone's unbridled rant and you just have to say out loud, "Thank god someone finally called it". Read More
HfS secures the services of Jim Slaby
We're delighted to unveil a very special talent to the sourcing industry - a respected veteran of the infrastructure security world and now seeking to ply his knowledge and experience to supporting global sourcing environments: Jim Slaby. Read More
Aird aired. Part II
Part II of our Charlie Aird interview, where we talk about the future of the sourcing industry, the Global Business Services framework he’s spearheading, and a little insight into how he views the changing environment for Big 4 consultants and boutique advisors. Read More
Reetika Joshi cranks up our BPO coverage
We're delighted to announce that Reetika Joshi has joined our full-time team to crank up our already cranky BPO and analytics coverage Read More
Aird aired. Part I
Part I of the HfS Research interview with Dr. Charles Aird, Global and US Practice Leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory Read More
Is the HP Band-Aid being re-applied?
We gave Léo Apotheker a strong benefit of the doubt when he recently ripped off HPs proverbial Band-Aid and made a series of tough announcements that could steer HP on a more coherent enterprise path. Sadly for Léo, his board is clearly in a position where they are unhappy with the progress made under him and want to bring in a very different personality in eBay's Meg Whitman Read More
Too many providers and advisors are being myopic with their clients and failing to understand their business pressures
Our latest study shows that many buyer executives are, in actuality, in violent disagreement with many provider and sourcing advisor executives that they their business leaders are too “short-term focused” Read More
Want to get smart about sourcing for Cloud?
This report authored by HfS Research and Loeb&Loeb provides both Business-function and IT executives with a detailed assessment of Cloud adoption strategies, an analysis of business benefits, concerns, challenges and contractual issues that need to be addressed and discusses the key service providers provisioning Cloud Computing services in today’s market. Read More
Cheap and quick please! Wizening buyers are seeking help from easily-accessible sources
When we ask them buyers they're foraging for help and information with outsourcing strategy-making in the coming months, the results are simple: they are turning to whatever sourcing are most easily-accessible and inexpensively-available to them Read More
