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Can Recruitment Process Outsourcing empower a more flexible, scalable workforce?
Most companies would never have dared move the management of their entire recruiting function over to a third party, but the squeeze of this post-recession economy, combined with fresh thinking from company leaders and a willingness to explore global sourcing models in business functions that can benefit from added expertise and flexibility, is moving services such as Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) up the corporate agenda for many firms.Read More
Stop pontificating about other people losing their jobs to AI and worry about your own job
Here's the cold, hard truth about employment today—we're judged by one ruthless metric: how much you cost versus how much value we deliver. With AI reshaping expectations, the tipping point where our value fails to justify our price tag is frighteningly closer than most of us will admit.Read More
HfS announces its entry into the outsourcing advisory market
HfS Research launches HfS Advisory ("HfS&") and announces its exit from the research analyst businessRead More
Outsourcing Executives: What’s your career narrative?
I’m obsessed by careers. I spend time trying to make sense of the various and sundry twists and turns that the life’s work of those in our industry seem to take. And I look closely for patterns. Read More
Losing the war for talent: Why offshore providers come up short onshore
The need to hire and develop quality onshore account management and delivery personnel is becoming the crucial differentiator in today's ever-tightening outsourcing marketplace. Those that can win this talent war will be the ones who can truly move beyond yesterday's flagging outsourcing model.Read More
Double-Dip Dynamics, Part II: The new tenets of outsourcing – process standardization, global flexibility and better technology
What is motivating buyers to outsource in this current climate? While eliminating cost is still is a huge fundamental, buyers are even more focused on achieving greater flexibility to scale their global operations as a prime motivating factor. Clearly, many executives are getting more experienced and skilled at driving an sourcing initiative, and are confident they can use the endeavor as a change agent to promote and implement much-needed change in their businesses.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
A healthcare BPO summit… with Sumit
Healthcare has been on everyone's minds in the US, in the wake of the acrimonious legislative fight and with the recent elections. And when any industry gets the squeeze, us sourcing-folk immediately think "hmmm, will they now do some outsourcing...Read More
Will an economic downturn spark a new wave of outsourcing growth?
Is the outsourcing industry primed to grow in a downturn? Read More
