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Bill grills the Madonna of HRO herself: Mary Sue Rogers
Mary Sue Rogers will share her insights into why full-service HRO has had a mixed scorecard in its first 10 years; what she will be doing differently in the next 10; the unique technologies used in HRO not usually found in a traditional HR environment; and the critical role of third parties and what they do in successful HRO engagements. Read More
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“Cloud BPO”? C’mon… stop talking cobblers
"Cloud BPO" is, simply put, a load of nonsense. The core fulcrum processes of BPO are the toughest to move into the Cloud, and only the small-to-medium business sector is going to enjoy any modicum of success of moving genuine "BPO" processes, such as finance and HR, into the Cloud in the near-term. Read More
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Announcing HfSResearch.com – our new company website!
We've created an entirely new website for our research content, HfSResearch.com Read More
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HfS Research announces two new analyst additions to boost data analytics and strategic research acumen
We're excited to announce a couple of terrific new additions to the core research team at HfS. Our goal is to provide our research clients with a unique blend of "real world" sourcing expertise, backed up with real-time research, market data and analytics. Read More
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Phil Hassey gets on his horse to pony-up unbridled Asia/Pac BPO coverage for HfS
We're thrilled that Phil Hassey has thrown hit hat in the horse's ring to pony up a couple of BPO appraisals of the region for us in 2011 Read More
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Egypt’s crisis: where social media threatens global outsourcing
When the first response of the government, in times of political crisis, is to shut down the Web, this has a massive impact on the nation's global sourcing infrastructure to support global businesses. Read More
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Procurement BPO: Be careful before sharing your proverbial corporate bedroom with another party
In Part II of our Procurement BPO market appraisal with SpendMatters' Jason Busch, we get straight to the heart of the issues that buyers need to watch out for when evaluating a Procurement BPO endeavour. Essentially, you're going to be sharing your proverbial corporate bedroom with a service provider, so you may be wise to read this first Read More
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They may take away our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR LAWYERS!
It's remarkable how quickly an outsourcing concept can spiral from concept to reality, when the ability to achieve real cost-savings is augmented by accessing insights and flexible resources. And that's exactly what's been going on with Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) Read More
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Will India’s desire for short-term profit trump the need to re-invest beyond the current market spike?
You won't see a CEO being removed after achieving a double-digit growth rate too often, but that's just what happened, when Wipro's co-chiefs Suresh Vaswani and Girish Paranjpe stepped down last week Read More
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Let’s cut through the fluff and discover what’s really going in the sourcing industry
The "Amazing Horse Race" is the ultimate public bloodbath of the sourcing industry, as the "Buy team" defends the title it gloriously won last year in Edinburgh. However this time it's not going to be quite as easy... Read More
