{"id":1549,"date":"2011-02-17T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/analytics_021711\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T08:48:00","slug":"analytics_021711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/analytics_021711\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry-specific analytics: where providers can differentiate or disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Time to improve your analytics capabilities?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In today’s ITO\/BPO market, it’s getting harder and harder tell providers apart, when selecting a sourcing\u00a0engagement\u00a0partner. Once they can compete on price, have a reasonable track record for operational effectiveness and can transition you to a globally-sourced environment, we really get down the nitty-gritty of how can they really help my business achieve growth and productivity?<\/em><\/p>\n
HfS is engaging heavily with both buyers and providers of sourcing to understand how buyers can benefit from\u00a0genuine\u00a0operational\u00a0and industry\u00a0insights\u00a0to\u00a0improve\u00a0their business performance – and we believe the capability offer these analytical insights<\/em> thought smart governance models is quickly emerging as a major differentiator. \u00a0And if your main provider isn’t passing muster with their insights, can you find a specialist to add to your sourcing mix that can?<\/p>\n
Over the last 15 years, the importance of analytics as a business activity has grown dramatically. While the top brass once used guts and intuition to guide decision\u00a0making, today, data is the prime weapon in the management arsenal. As data analysis techniques have gotten smarter over the years, analytics have emerged as a specialized function of business employed broadly across industries and functions. \u00a0Our new HfS Report, imaginatively titled Where offshore analytics is heading in 2011<\/a><\/em> <\/em>investigates…<\/p>\n