{"id":1058,"date":"2015-03-08T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/2015-progressive-fa-bpo-blueprint_030515\/"},"modified":"2015-03-08T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T06:54:00","slug":"2015-progressive-fa-bpo-blueprint_030515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/2015-progressive-fa-bpo-blueprint_030515\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2015 Progressive F&A BPO Blueprint"},"content":{"rendered":"
Almost two years to the day since we launched our first Blueprint Report<\/a>, we finally circle back to the core horizontal services function\u00a0providing\u00a0the fulcrum for BPO and shared services: \u00a0finance and accounting. \u00a0<\/strong>For our 20th Blueprint, authored by analysts Phil Fersht<\/a> and Hema Santosh<\/a>, we deliberately focused on the proven “progressive” skills, investments, domain acumen and as-a-service potential of the leading providers in finance and accounting service delivery.<\/p>\n In order to pull together the most comprehensive view of this market, we created importance weightings for the key categories of services innovation and execution, that were based on the opinions of 1109 services buyers, advisors and provider executions in our 2014 State of Outsourcing Study<\/a>, conducted in conjunction with KPMG. \u00a0In addition, we conducted exhaustive interviews\u00a0with more than 100 F&A service buyers, many of whom are members of the HfS Sourcing Executive Council. \u00a0We didn’t rely 100% on reference clients ponied up from the service providers themselves – this is the<\/em> genuine, unvarnished view of how providers are performing today from the people experiencing their services:<\/p>\n