Accenture, Xerox, NGA HR, Aon Hewitt and ADP make the HR Operations-as-a-Service Winner’s Circle
HfS Research's Mike Cook authors the 2016 HR Operations-as-a-Service BlueprintRead More
156 billion reasons why Lars and SAP were never meant to be
Lars leaving so quickly symbolizes SAP's struggle, in my mind, to change its culture and approach to disruptive business models. The economics of the cloud cannot print anywhere near as much money for our German friends as the current legacy ecosystem of clunky enterprises, whose IT managers simply do not want to invite change or disruption. If your clients don't want to change, why should you?Read More
The Future of Work – Who will lead?
Companies need leaders to start thinking about the future of work as part of their business planning processes. HR leaders are well positioned to understand the capability and talent of the organization. They also have access to more enabling technology they ever before to help engage the entire workforce in creating the future of work at their companies.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
The 9-to-5 job is officially dead… Work-from-Anywhere becomes our new reality
OneOffice is the mindset to put real digital transformation into action, and there has never been a burning platform like the Work-From-Anywhere (WFA) revolution to force this changeRead More
Can Indian engineering services providers engineer Brexit outcomes to their advantage?
While we all are debating the impact of Brexit, I feel that Brexit will be advantageous to Indian engineering service providers in the long-term, both in the post-Brexit UK and EU marketplaces. And it’s not that I am biased as I cover engineering servicesRead More
Shamelessly Shamus: Why Europe is positioned to leapfrog the United States
Did you hear the one about the Mamil (middle aged man in lycra), who got off his bike, donned a suit and tie and joined a Big 4 consulting firm to wax lyrical about sourcing strategy?Read More
Can HR ever overcome its obsession with the automation of obsolete processes?
Why do so many HR executives obsess with administering irrelevant processes when they should be helping their firms' managers get the best out of their staff?Read More
Forget business outcomes and innovation for now… most enterprises just want to get beyond adequate first
Our seminal State of Outsourcing Study, conducted with the support of KPMG, has revealed that today's wizening outsourcing buyer is looking at industry experience and the provision of talent that can do more than just the basics, when it comes to choosing between their providersRead More
Is it time to de-social our lives?
I would argue that it's actually time to "de-social" our behavior to regain the effectiveness and quality of our interactions and relationships.Read More