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Are you stuck in a transactional workforce? Only a quarter of firms are going in the right direction with their people
If your colleagues aren't passionate about your brand, barely enjoy working with each other, are struggling to delight your customers, or grow your partnerships, this post-pandemic business climate could well see your business fall away as more adventurous, disruptive, and passionate businesses steal your mindshare and usurp your competitive position. You need to evaluate your own career trajectory and decide whether you have the appetite to be on the winning side in this emerging AI economyRead More
The hegemony-obsessed platform economy is scouting for credible provider partners
The last decade-plus has seen the ascendancy of platform businesses like Uber, Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Spotify and today, six of the top 10 global businesses by market capitalization are platform businesses. The Services for the Platform Economy, 2023 Horizons report covers seven notable providers helping their platform clients efficiently run operations, expand business, and realize value.Read More
Krithi’s first TCS re-org… One step forward and two steps back?
Is the new TCS org structure really going to propel the company forward in the AI-driven era where scarce skills in areas such as GenAI are at a premium and intra-company collaboration and training are more critical than ever? Does having an all-male leadership team send the right message to clients and employees, where diversity is so important to its culture and enticing the best young talent? Phil Fersht and Saurabh Gupta look into new TCS CEO K Krithivasan's first major re-organization of his TCS tenure.Read More
Why lazy transactional lawyers should be very scared of GPT-4
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed lawyer will not be king for much longer. ChatGPT is exposing lazy people compared to smart, diligent ones, and lawyers are no exception to the rule – everyone is being held to account by their ability to use LLMs properly and professionally. Read More
Meet our engineering genie… and her name is Nandini
Anyone tracking HFS will have noticed some terrific new brains join us over the past couple of years from all over the world, but one area we have been really keen to bolter is engineering services. And we were lucky enough to hire a smiling insomniac in Nandini Tare, who's helped us grow our practice and coverage significantly, especially with her recent flagship Horizons report on Digital Engineering Service Providers.So let's hear from her directly what makes her tick and her views in the industry...Read More
Are Global Evaporation Centers next? Your GCC will likely be agentified in 18 months if your board is already questionning its value
We’ve already called out that the next 18 months will witness the dying embers of labour-intensive services. That includes your GCC. If your GCC focuses predominantly on repetitive manual tasks it’s little more than a transaction factory, and it’s the first thing the board will look to automate next. It won’t gradually downsize or pivot, but will likely experience rapid, devastating headcount reductions. Just because the labor costs are lower doesn't negate the fact that these are still costs.Read More
When your lift-and-shift still stinks: How AI can finally fix the mess you outsourced
Let's be blunt... your outsourcing engagement stinks pretty bad. You’re three years into your five-year deal and you’ve got a low-cost service provider managing your old ways of working, complete with manual approvals, 23-step handoffs, meager 3% annual efficiency improvements, and weekly Excel wars. If your KPI dashboard looks cleaner, that’s only because you’ve spent more on Power BI. But here’s the good news... AI might finally be the disinfectant we’ve been waiting for.Read More
Are we finally ready to ‘UnBPO’ ourselves?
Firstsource just put BPO on notice. It’s not just talking about transformation—it’s daring the entire industry to burn the old playbook.Read More
Services-as-Software presents a $1.5 Trillion Opportunity for both Software and Services firms
Enter Services-as-Software—an AI-first, automated service layer that’s coming to obliterate everything in its path. No more billable hours. No more clunky SaaS. Services-as-Software is not a death knell for service providers and software vendors. It’s the $1.5 trillion opportunity of our lifetime. Read More
Why actions will eat code
After a remarkable journey through the era of computerization and its remarkable contributions, we stand at a pivotal moment of innovation. It's time to bid farewell to a core element that has been instrumental in its success: We must undertake a comprehensive reevaluation of our enterprise application suites and the ecosystem of coding that has been central to their development and support. Our future is all about visible actions and invisible technology...Read More
