Year: 2016
The New Rule of Outsourcing: Co-Learning on the Job
Today, “learning on the job,” is a critical activity to do all the time, as digital technologies and business models change the way we work, not a little, but quite significantly and often at a breathtaking pace.Read More
I Want To Be A Superhero — What About You?
Superhero movies have been particularly popular over the past several years, but long before then they’ve been a staple of our culture. We love the hero coming to save the day, helping fellow citizens and making the world better. In the movies (and in reaRead More
Interview: Meet Samyr Jriri, the Sales Guru from Brussels!
Nine months ago, we needed to add more firepower to our sales function. To be precise, we needed top sales quality that could thrive with the HfS mentality and culture. We found that person in Samyr Jriri!Read More
Automation Impact: India’s services industry workforce to shrink 480,000 by 2021 – a decline of 14%
New HfS Research covering 1477 industry stakeholders details the Automation-Impact Scenarios for the IT and BPO services industry across skill levels and countriesRead More
Successful Strategic Partnerships must go beyond the press release
Why are the strategic objectives so often forgotten in the hurry to get a deal done?Read More
Enter the “Trust” Clause: The only way to contract for emerging Digital business models
Existing commercial models and contracting practices are no longer viable to capture the outcome of the engagement, let alone the spirit of collaboration, co-innovation and partnership. So what is the way forward for contracting in an age of uncertainty aRead More
The Game of Digital Clones Will have a Radical Impact on Engineering
As Game of Thrones is driving the entertainment industry, the Game of Digital Clones will drive engineering services industry.Read More
Budgets? We don’t need no stinking budgets! Or do we? An interview with Accenture’s Bill Phelps
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Bill Phelps, Managing Director, Accenture Security, to discuss our report. Bill was one of my co-collaborators in this research effort, and I was curious to get his take on both the survey and its implicatioRead More
RPA is Dead. Long Live Intelligent Automation!
I have been researching the notion of Intelligent Automation and, in particular, the rapid uptake of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for more than 4 years. It was this work that eventually brought me to HfS. Over the years, I have made many good friendsRead More