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2030 HFS Services Technology Vision: The Future of Services is No Services
By 2030, we will be engaging with services primarily through technology, minimizing human intervention and maximizing efficiency. In fact, services will barely even be services anymoreRead More
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Back to drive the HFS sustainability talk track: Josh Matthews
We're delighted to announce that the analyst who made sustainably great... is back to MAKE SUSTAINABILITY GREAT AGAIN! Yes, folks, Joth Matthews has returned to the HFS analyst family!Read More
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6 big things to fix US healthcare… sorta
HFS healthcare lead analyst, Rohan Kulkarni, names six big things we can address to fix US healthcare Read More
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Global Capability Centers (GCCs)… The direction Indian IT must take to pivot from cost to value
While tech and BPO service providers have grappled with flagging enterprise demand and other market pressures, GCCs have thrived, with HFS estimating 2000 expected to be in full operation in 2025. So, are these GCCs genuinely the new face of Indian IT? And can they sustain their success and lead the Indian charge in global technology services?Read More
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Ten reasons why GPT-4o will pour fuel onto the GenAI smoldering platform
Having multimodal capability that brings speech, text, video, and content together into one singular neural network that we can communicate with in real-time and immerse into our day-to-day activities is the game changer we have been unwittingly waiting for...Read More
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To assure the journey toward the Generative Enterprise™, organizations must show humility for the unknown
Quality assurance (QA), or simply “testing,” as it was called in the old days, can no longer be a reactive afterthought coupled with an unwillingness to invest in quality. Instead, it must become an integral part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and take on a much more holistic responsibility for assuring transformational outcomes.Read More
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GenAI will crash and burn
We’re sad to inform you all that the GenAI we have grown to love with such intensity will shortly crash and burn. We’ve been here before, folks, when we called the death of RPA five years ago… and we are today calling the death of GenAIRead More
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Anatomy of a flail. Wipro’s acquisition of Capco three years in…
As we examine what Wipro has achieved in the three years since the acquisition, we regretfully opine that things have not gone well. There has been limited exponential impact from combining the two entities and 'strategy-led execution deals' have not materialized.Read More
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GBS (Global Business Services) is dead. Long live GBS (Generative Business Services)
For more than two decades, Global Business Services (GBS), the centralized service delivery model leveraging a mix of internal shared services and/or 3rd party outsourcing, has been a tried and tested modus operandi for large enterprises to save costs, drive process discipline and improve compliance. However, with the rapid advent of real generative AI capability, the current GBS model is dated, fails to deliver much (if any) value beyond cost and efficiency and has struggled to create viable career opportunities for ambitious talent. Let’s face it, GBS is still stuck squarely in the back office and fails to provide a career track for the best and brightest to pivot their firms into the generative AI era.Read More
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We’re entering the Third Phase of AI: Purposeful AI
Welcome to the Purposeful AI where humans set the goals and the boundaries, and your AI is empowered to deliver on the actions. This 'Third Phase of AI' follows from Foundational AI and Generative AI and is designed to make independent decisions – acting with autonomy within human-defined boundaries. Purposeful AI goes beyond a one-time-only assembly of rules of engagement. It will learn from its interactions and from prompts provided by humans to constantly improve its capabilities to action their desired outcomes in real-timeRead More
