{"id":3755,"date":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/will-anyone-still-be-buying-analytics-services-in-2021\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","slug":"will-anyone-still-be-buying-analytics-services-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/will-anyone-still-be-buying-analytics-services-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Anyone Still Be Buying Analytics Services in 2021?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Service providers in the last decade have made significant efforts to pivot from commoditized IT and BPO services to more “higher value” services like research and analytics. We know this has been the direction of the industry up to today. Analytics services have had the fortuitous blend of:<\/p>\n
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From the likes of IBM to the smallest boutique analytics house, there’s enough room for everyone to grow right now because of these factors. However, with the significant pace of change we’re seeing in the services industry overall, will we still live in the same market in five years’ time? A few factors that our research points to could really shake up the portfolio of work that analytics service providers feast off of today.<\/p>\n
Here are three critical success factors for analytics engagements that service providers will need to address if they want to be in business in five years’ time (btw 2021 is just in five years!):\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the next five years, wherever enterprises believe they are in their analytics journey, they are still going to be in an organizing phase. They are still figuring out how to develop further their technology platforms, data extraction and integration, big data infrastructure, data scientists, PhD and analyst skills development, relationships with analytics service providers, and an overall organizational reorientation to be more data-driven. To make real progress, service providers and clients will need to collaborate, experiment, and connect and partner across business units and regions. It also means partners will need to work through confusion, duplication of effort and change management, because we are talking about behavioral change here. Service providers that want to win analytics services business in 2021 need to be prepared for these changes, in client organizations as well as the analytics engagements that will be demanded by them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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