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There’s no settling with Mike Ettling… he wants to win it all!
It’s time to check in on faceless ERP and discover the draw to Unit4’s “sizzle” and its people-centric paradigm.Read More
Have we finally become an industry? Have we become the Digital Operations Industry?
After years of trying define ourselves, have we finally emerged as the Digital Operations IndustryRead More
Making hay after the sun has set on legacy outsourcing… meet John Haworth
John Haworth, Chairman of the HfS Sourcing Executive Council, talks to Phil Fersht about why he joined HfS and the upcoming buyers' summit in Harvard SquareRead More
Offshore outsourcing killing innovation? Time to change that record, please Professors…
The provocative interview of two Harvard Business School intellectuals in CIO Magazine is making the rounds and generating some interesting discussion. It will undoubtedly stoke the already heated fires of the sensationalist anti-outsourcing crowd and provide fodder to those who say that offshore outsourcing detracts from the “client” companies’ and countries’ competitiveness. The problem is that the argument being made, that outsourcing higher-end, higher value business processes will lead to erosion of the ability to innovate is at once obvious and flawed. Read More
Are you “crowding it” in NYC this week? HfS has some free tickets…
We got some face time with flamboyant Massolution CEO, Carl Esposti (and founder of the Crowdsourcing.org community platform) about next week's first-ever crowdsourcing & crowdfunding conferenceRead More
Source to stay?
The days of enterprise buyers dropping millions to view providers strut the catwalk and have their contracts hammered out by some baseball-bat wielding former ITO salesman are rapidly fading into the past. That ship has, thankfully, sailed. However, a new ship is now dropping anchor in the sourcing harbor...Read More
Cost reduction is not the only medicine many companies need in these times
So much has been made of the downturn in the economy and the credit crunch that it is hard to believe that any industry stands to gain over the short term let alone the BPO market. Read More
Time to ring-fence “Lights On Outsourcing” and focus on “Business Transformation Services”
It's high-time to segment the industry so we can all focus on delivering value, and not solely cost-cuttingRead More
