Cog and Gen getting it on? Naaaahhhhh
Lots of frantic noise this week that Cog has been making romantic overtones to Genpact - with India's press jumping on speculation. Like any other industry observer, you can certainly see lots of romantic potential here - Wall Street's darlings of BPO and ADM tying the knot to frighten the life out of Accenture, IBM, Infosys et al. HoweverI'm afraid this one just ain't gonna happen anytime soonRead More
Outsourcing marriage counselling… with Liz Campbell Evans
If your outsourcing relationship is on the rocks, one person who can provide some tried-and-trusted therapy is EquaTerra's Liz Campbell EvansRead More
The undisputed facts about outsourcing, Part 3: With outsourcing demand at unprecedented levels, can new buyers get across the finish-line?
HfS Research's "State of Outsourcing 2011" study of 1335 industry stakeholders, conducted with the Outsourcing Unit at the London School of Economics, points to a marked turnaround in outsourcing intentions as global economies reach a period of sustained (albeit limping) recovery. For many organizations today, clearly the short-term counter-recessionary measures have been executed through to fruition, leaving business function leaders under renewed pressure to seek out new operational strategies for driving out cost and improving global effectiveness.Read More
Why the outsourcing industry is so horrible at marketing itself
One fact I would challenge anyone on is the abject failure of the outsourcing industry to market itselfRead More
The Intelligent OneOffice – the endgame for the new generation enterprise
Introducing the Intelligent OneOffice where the barriers between front, middle and back are forever going awayRead More
Will a Double-Dip Recession reverse the trend of buyers “delaying outsourcing” during a slump? Here are 10 factors to consider…
Organizations have always been wary of outsourcing during recessions. While today it delivers cost-reduction to clients in spades (proven emphatically during our recent state-of-outsourcing study), many organizations have proven, in the past, to push it down the priority-list of radical cost-reduction measures, when they fear for their very existence. However, with the threat of a "Double-Dip" recession very much a grim reality, HfS believes this cycle is likely to be broken.Read More
It’s all just so easy when you got DC…
When we look at the now-famous Cognizant CEO factory, probably the best-known of the bunch is Debashis Chatterjee (known simply as "DC" to everyone in the biz), who now finds himself leading the new $4.2bn powerhouse that is LTIMindtree. He's also one of the calmest and easy-going guys you can hope to meet in this business. So let's hear directly from DC... what makes him tick and what's next for the new 7th largest Indian-heritage service provider...Read More
If you don’t ease your process debt, you’ll never benefit fully from automation
Automation tools can truly help make processes work effectively across disparate systems, once you have got rid of the awful process debt weighing down your organizationRead More