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Seven savant-like dudes and their sourcing scuttlebutt… replayed
Your week not quite the same without seven dudes rabbiting on about best practices and being over-polite with each other? Well, your addiction can be cured by listening to the replayRead More
Coping with the return to work
Here's some free advice, folks, so do with it what you want... Read More
Sourcing no-no’s for 2013: what’s gotta go
Here's some sourcing cheese we don't want more of 2013Read More
Why HfS cancelled its 2013 predictions
For all of you waiting on tenterhooks for our 2013 predictions, I am afraid we have some bad news: today, we took the unprecedented step of canceling them. But why? Read More
Tiger Tales Part IV… The sourcing industry’s virtuous cycle
And just when you'd forgotten we hadn't published the final installment of our interview with Genpact’s CEO NV “Tiger” Tyagarajan...Read More
So… who’s got the bottle to buy HP’s BPO services business?
In today's commodotizing market for IT and business services, HP's services business can only really look to defend what it still has against the encroaching competitive bite of the likes of Accenture, Cognizant, Genpact, IBM, TCS etc. However, there is one option that could revitalize its legacy: merge with one of the market leaders. Read More
Captain Cliff of the Sourcing Enterprise Part III… The Death of the “O” Word
Welcome back to the Captain Cliff chronicles. And since Part II, we have actually witnessed Cliff speak for a whole hour at an outsourcing conference and manage not to mention the "O" word once. That's quite a feat, so let's find out why... Read More
Greetings from Robotistan, outsourcing’s cheapest new destination
How would you like to build a software robot to automate a business process for one client, and then resell copies of that robot to a dozen other clients in the same vertical?Read More
The great outsourcing talent-chasm: 57% of service provider staff don’t understand their clients’ businesses
In terms of business understanding, initiative, innovation and culture, non-US staff are miles behind local staff. For example, only 43% of outsourcing customer feel their non-US staff understands their business, when compared to 88% of local staff. Yes, this gap will surely close as the industry matures, but I find this talent-chasm unacceptable in today's global marketplace.Read More
So you think YOU have sourcing talent?
We are inviting you to participate in a brief survey to explore today's talent management challenges facing both your executives and staff – and you could win an iPhone 5 into the bargain, in addition to a complimentary copy of the study findings.Read More
