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Deloitte Dolittle: Stop treating AI like a magic wand
The revelation that Deloitte submitted a government report filled with AI-generated fake references and fabricated court quotes is not just embarrassing - it is a $290,000 lesson in what happens when professional judgment is replaced by blind trust in automation.Read More
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Vibe Coding is the production engine that turns the Services-as-Software from vision to reality
Vibe Coding is the production engine that makes Services-as-Software real, and it will decide the winners of the next decade. Enterprises can no longer afford to treat AI as bolt-ons or outsourcing-lite. Services-as-Software is a new operating model where AI agents, LLMs, and Vibe Coding collapse the gap between software and services, shifting the economics of IT from people and licenses to reusable, outcome-based digital service layers.Read More
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Don’t hide behind AI to trim your belly fat. Start redesigning your workforce
Microsoft, Amazon, Citigroup, UPS, Google, McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, and many others have all recently laid off staff under the AI smokescreen. The headlines say it is about automation and AI readiness, but that is not the whole story... not even close.Read More
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Why the analyst advisor industry is getting obliterated by AI… and how to save it
The analyst and advisor industries, reliant on IP and research to market their products, are in serious trouble, and many firms will cease to exist in a couple of years. What's really worrying is the recent speed of development with AI platforms, agentic software, and LLMs, which is, quite frankly, making the use of analysts and advisors increasingly irrelevant.Read More
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How Generative and Agentic AI are Supercharging the OneOffice Data Cycle
We finally have an injection of rocket fuel from Generative and Agentic AI to create intelligent agents that can sense, decide, and act with autonomy... as long as we have our data strategy right. To be a truly autonomous organization, the principles of OneOffice hold truer than ever: workflows executed in real-time between customers and employees that engage partners right across our business ecosystems.Read More
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Meet Babak, one of agentic’s original inventors
If you’re an enterprise leader staring down ballooning tech debt, rising pressure for AI transformation, and daily new product drops that all scream “innovate now or be left behind,” stop. Take a breath—and read this wide-ranging Q&A between Cognizant CTO Babak Hodjat and HFS Executive Research Leader David Cushman.Read More
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Joe Biden to keynote at the HFS Summit
HFS Research, the analyst firm which coined the term “Services-as-Software” has added former president Joe Biden to its stellar line up of speakers, which include CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and Wharton School Professor Ethan Mollick. He will address the impact of AI on the United States under the theme “The Agentic President”.Read More
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2025 is the breakthrough year for Generative Enterprise — and partnering with a capable services partner is critical
Prepare for a breakthrough year in the Generative Enterprise—powered by the potential of agentic AI to deliver end-to-end, self-improving, cross-silo processes to achieve business outcomes, the promise of deregulation, and greater access to infrastructure of the Stargate program, and a new wave of LLM innovation exemplified by China’s DeepSeek. Our Generative Enterprise Services Horizons report 2025 identified several trends: how service providers are meeting enterprise needs, effectively training people, what enterprises need more of from their service partners, and what customers and partners have to say about their service experiences.Read More
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Commercial banks seriously need to up their digital game to meet the B2B needs of their customers
HFS conducted a significant deep-dive Horizons Study into the needs of commercial banks and the best IT and business process service providers to support them: HFS Horizons: The Best Service Providers for Commercial Banks, 2025. This report evaluates the capabilities of 22 service providers across the HFS commercial banking value chain based on a range of dimensions to understand the why, what, how, and so what of their service offerings.Read More
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Happy one-year birthday, Microsoft Copilot. Now, can you be more than a quick AI win for the lazy CIO?
It’s been exactly two years since ChatGPT 3.0 hit the streets and dramatically changed the AI conversation. One of the key beneficiaries has been Microsoft Copilot, which, in barely one year, has generated a remarkable $1 billion in revenues and created a vehicle for CIOs to claim early “AI victory” to their corporate leaders hungry to exploit the delights of this AI revolution. So, with Microsoft positioning Copilot as the new "UI for AI," what do CIOs and their C-Suite counterparts need to do to achieve more value than a glossy AI veneer?Read More
