{"id":1052,"date":"2015-03-30T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/providers-blame_033015\/"},"modified":"2015-03-30T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T07:29:00","slug":"providers-blame_033015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/providers-blame_033015\/","title":{"rendered":"Service providers blame their clients, advisors and analysts for their As-a-Service failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We couldn&#8217;t resist sharing a quick snippet from our new &#8220;Eight Ideas of the As-a-Service Economy&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/as-a-service-study_021915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> that reveals some rather alarming news: \u00a0service providers are blaming everyone bar themselves for\u00a0obstructing their progress towards As-a-Service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Providers_Blame_Everyone.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19341 noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Providers_Blame_Everyone-e1453044024395.jpg\" alt=\"Click to Enlarge\" width=\"578\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to Enlarge<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>At fault number 1 &#8211; the Clients.<\/strong> Top of the lists are their clients themselves, with 78% of service provider executives (from a pool of 238) citing their unwillingness to venture into risk\/gainshare models with them. Considering most enterprise clients we talk to complain that their provider refuses to budge from their predictable, profitable FTE delivery model, baffles me here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At fault number 2 &#8211; the Advisors.<\/strong> Next up are sourcing advisors &#8211; those lovely folk who bring them to the table and horsetrade to get deals done. \u00a0Apparently, they are not selling the evolving model to enterprise clients and are just not very capable. \u00a0We are starting to see more As-a-Service traits in some mid-tier deals, where there is less wiggle-room to make huge profits on wage arbitrage, and these frequently are too small to warrant several hundred grand being spent on an advisor. \u00a0The advisor model is still built for the old world of big scale deals, not the new world where analytical and creative skills, technology enablement and automation are the watchwords.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At fault number 3\u00a0&#8211; the Analysts.<\/strong> And third on the list appears to be a pot shot at analysts, where providers claim a &#8220;Lack of quality research to educate the industry on the benefits of As-a-Service models&#8221;. \u00a0We apologise and promise to write more coherently&#8230; and this time make sure you read it, Mr and Mrs provider executive, because we know how much time you spend trawling your way through analyst reports these days&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Least at fault &#8211; the Providers themselves.<\/strong> And very last on the list (no sh*t) is the fact that they are struggling with their own inhouse talent to shift the model to As-a-Service. \u00a0Well that&#8217;s great news, as I thought\u00a0it might be a bit of a struggle for providers to retrain their developers and project managers to think analytically, help clients with design thinking, laying out an automation roadmap etc. \u00a0Now we can all rest easy with the knowledge that the providers will save the day, while the rest of us clients, advisors and analysts can all go away and die somewhere on the scrap heap of legacy labor models, SLAs and dull irrelevant research.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Bottom-line: \u00a0We&#8217;re all pretty much at fault for perpetuating the old models. \u00a0This is a collective learning effort across all stakeholders to adopt the ideals of As-a-Service<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As we reach the end of the runway with the legacy model (which still has a way to go for many enterprises) there needs to be a much better effort collectively to discuss the actual measures enterprises need to adopt to take better advantage of the technology enablers and hone our skills accordingly. \u00a0Many advisors are clearly still making a good living advising on the old model, otherwise many would cease to exist, while analysts clearly do a poor educating the market on real world examples of how to make the shift (and persist on an old world model themselves to engage with clients). \u00a0Meanwhile, if service providers are as good as they think they are, they need to find better ways to convince their clients to trust them more, to work with the on joint projects of discovery etc. \u00a0Lee rhetoric, more dialog among the key stakeholders and better real-world education is the only real formula for success here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We couldn&#8217;t resist sharing a quick snippet from our new &#8220;Eight Ideas of the As-a-Service Economy&#8221; study that reveals some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,53,78,80,81,830,97,98,837],"tags":[146],"ppma_author":[19],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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