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Azeem Azhar: Will bad processes kill your GenAI revolution?
In a fireside conversation with HFS Research CEO and Chief Analyst Phil Fersht, AI evangelist Azeem Azhar offers evidence that LLMs are already helping people do their work quicker, at higher performance levels – and with greater employee satisfaction.Read More
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Cognizant gets savvy with Ravi to resurrect its mojo at the intersection of industry and technology
In its recent past, Cognizant had achieved what most of the industry still fails at today: Everyone understood the “Why Cognizant”, versus just the “what” and the “how”. What had been the poster child for modern offshore-centric outsourcing for a decade and a half has struggled since activist investor Elliot management squeezed the life out of the firm in 2017. Can new CEO Ravi Kumar reinvigorate the firm’s culture while also setting out a new course for growth in the era of The Generative Enterprise? The bookings momentum in 2023 is indicating the firm is on the right track...Read More
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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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The great GenAI paradox: It can make you dumber
The reality of GenAI integration into the workplace reveals a paradox: while the initial productivity gains are evident, they often come with hidden costs that can offset the benefits by creating new challenges. The highest cost that must be addressed is when people become over-reliant on GenAI to develop solutions and suffer a decline in their learning capabilities.Read More
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Businesses are in an arms race to create low-touch collaborative supply chains
In the HFS Horizons: Supply Chain Services 2024 study, 18 supply chain services providers are analyzed and profiled. Seven of these providers are identified as leaders in Horizon 3, focusing on ecosystem collaboration. Seven are identified as innovators in Horizon 2, excelling in cross-functional alignment, and four are identified as disruptors, primarily working on function-level transformation. Read More
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As ChatGPT goes Enterprise, here are Ten GenAI Reality Checks you need to take…
Barely ten months after its birth changed the world of technology, OpenAI unleashes ChatGPT Enterprise, where enterprises now have "Enterprise-grade security and privacy, unlimited higher-speed GPT-4 access, longer context windows for processing longer inputs, advanced data analysis capabilities, customization options, and much more." Assuming the 20 enterprises that road-tested ChatGPT Enterprise experienced these benefits in double-quick time, you have to take a serious look at scaling up GenAI tools or risk getting left behind with the most hyped technology since the Internet came to be... here are 10 reality checkpoints you must consider Read More
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HFS just got Ghosh-ed!
We're thrilled to welcome Achyuta Ghosh to HFS as our new Executive Research Leader for GCCs and BPO, based in Delhi! Let's hear from him directly about his new career with HFS and what to expect from him donning purple...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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From People to Tech arbitrage: Can we really survive this Great Services Transition?
We are in the S-Curve evolution from People to Technology Arbitrage, that the Generative Enterprise demands. This is truly the Great Services Transition, where the entire financial construct of services relationships is being reinvented to capitalize on the complex new ecosystem of AI platform players, hyperscalers, data integration products, automation tools, LLM builders, and so on. Enterprises must address their debts in these four areas which have likely collected over the last 30+ years: People debt, Process debt, Data debt and Technical debt.Read More
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India’s bloated IT services firms must learn from their startups to avoid GenAI meltdown
Having just spent a lovely week in India leading an HFS special event in Mumbai, followed by speaking at the Nasscom Technology Leadership Forum, I was overwhelmed with concern that so many leaders in India's services industry really have no concept of what is going to hit them. Indian support services could lose a million positions over the next couple of years as LLMs rapidly change how routine IT testing and coding work are delivered.Read More
