{"id":1131,"date":"2014-06-29T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/analog-present-digital-future_062914\/"},"modified":"2014-06-29T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T07:35:00","slug":"analog-present-digital-future_062914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/analog-present-digital-future_062914\/","title":{"rendered":"The new table-stakes: Fixing the Analog Present for a Digital Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
As we digest the incredible dialog from the HfS Cambridge University blueprint summit this week, the overwhelming mood from enterprises is one of frustration to get beyond<\/em> this tactical status quo of legacy operations, in which so many find themselves wedged.<\/p>\n And most services providers aren’t going to come to the table with the technology and talent until<\/em> their customers clearly dictate and demand what they need to cross this chasm. And those providers which simply do not have<\/em> the Digital capabilities their clients demand to address these gaps<\/a>, run the risk of being relegated to the class of legacy staff augmentation provider that performs only the low-value grunt work, or \u00a0ditched from many client provider rosters altogether. \u00a0And this is already happening with some ambitious determined clients.<\/p>\n When we surveyed 312 enterprise buyers on their two-year expectations from their current outsourcing relationships, it becomes abundantly clear that those desired business outcomes from yesterday’s outsourcing era have quickly become today’s table-stakes:<\/p>\n