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Blueprint 1.0 was blinding… now are you ready for Blueprint 2.0 this October?
The HfS 50 Blueprint Sessions 2.0 are a continuation of the hugely successful summit that took place at the Soho Grand in New York in April 2012, where 41 senior practitioner recipients of outsourcing services, joined by six of the leading outsourcing services providers on the second day, started the ground work for a Blueprint document that delivers a roadmap for the future direction of the outsourcing industry. Read More
Poole’s patter, Part II: Virtualized delivery – the “O” is not a prerequisite
The actual process of "outsourcing" operations is fast becoming moot - this transfer of labor, technology and domain acumen is no longer needed in many of these business process engagements, because the provider already brings these qualities to the table. Read More
After 24 years, it’s adios ACS (er… except in Asia/Pac)
Two years into its $6.4 billion acquisition, Xerox has finally decided to phase out this famous old ACS brandRead More
Time to fine-tune your multi-vendor strategy
Time to fine-tune your multi-vendor strategy...Read More
Join us next Friday for some perfect hangover fodder
We've teamed with our esteemed industry colleague Ed Caso, Managing Director and Senior Analyst for the IT/BPO Services Equity Research Team at Wells Fargo Securities, to review the world of outsourcing in 2011... and take a peek at what's in store for 2012Read More
A big cat for a big job: meet Tiger (Part III)
The final installment of our recent discussion between HfS CEO Phil Fersht and Genpact's new President and CEO, NV “Tiger” Tyagarajan, which delves into Tiger's vision for the future of technology and BPO. Read More
Aird aired. Part II
Part II of our Charlie Aird interview, where we talk about the future of the sourcing industry, the Global Business Services framework he’s spearheading, and a little insight into how he views the changing environment for Big 4 consultants and boutique advisors.Read More
The biggest political threat (yet) to the outsourcing industry
The Swiss, in their typically punctilious fashion, now have an "Anti-PowerPoint Party" with the self-stated goal of having the number of boring PowerPoint presentations on the planet to decrease and the average presentation to become more exciting and more interesting.Read More
Frank’s still Frank: Cognizant CEO Francisco D’Souza talks to HfS about his 40% growth year
Cognizant had an unprecedenced growth spurt in 2010, attaining annual revenues of $4.59 billion - up 40% year-over-year. We have arrived at the growth peak of offshore IT services, and Cognizant has led this acceleration coming out of the Recession. So we caught up with President and CEO, Frank D'Souza, to discuss the dynamics behind Cognizant's growth, the state of the services industry, the global economic outlook and his perspective on the Cloud, among other issues.Read More
Outsourcing – death by boredom?
TELL US SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW! JESUS - THIS IS THE SAME FLUFF WE WERE BEING SERVED UP TEN YEARS AGO.Read More
