Yes, quite how this ramshackle outfit today celebrates its first birthday is quite beyond me. Exactly one year ago, we bravely declared we were a research company, with a bunch of friends, stringers and part-timers.
Today, we are a fully-loaded experienced research organization with depth and breadth of analyst talent across North America and Europe – with further expansion plans imminent. Hell, decisions used to be so much easier when we had no money…
But seriously, all I can say is a big fat thank you for all your support, encouragement and belief in us as we’ve built something truly game-changing in our industry – and one stat says it all: One year ago we had 16,000 subscribers; today we just surpassed 50,000. One can only guess where we’ll be in another 12 months.
Here’s a shout out to a few of you who’ve played your part…
Amber Wagenknecht (Accenture): For the warning signs (and my ignoring them)
Anthony Calabrese: Just being a sourcing beast
Bill Kutik: Making me laugh – out loud
Bob Cecil and Lowell Williams (EquaTerra/KPMG): Being awesome to work with
Brian Robinson (HfS): From tenant to employee… a truly loyal chap: )
Bruce McCracken: Being there at the start
Chris Barney (Genpact): For Cardiff…
Chris Gattenio, Don Schulman, Bill Payne and MSR (IBM): Believing in us
David Poole and Carina Smith (Capgemini): Believing in us, oh and making the Magic Kingdom bearable
Dawn Evans (SIG): For your super confidence
Deb Kops (Sourcing Change & HfS): Sounding-board and under-rated marketeer
Dennis Howlett: Just being Dennis
Derek Sappenfield (PwC): For believing in us
Ed Nair (Global Services Media): Being a great supporter and simply a great guy
Emma Beaumont and Sarah Clayton (SSON): Making some super cardboard cutouts – and all the plugs during lift-off
Esteban Herrera (HfS): For raising our game
Euan Davis (HfS): For the blind leap of faith
Frank Casale (Outsourcing Institute): For finding a reason to call me everyday
Frank D’Souza (Cognizant): Being our first client
Google Apps: For a cheap, reliable IT platform
Graham Russell (Astrazeneca): The guaranteed entertainment
Jamie Snowdon (HfS): For choosing HfS to make his comeback
Jason Busch (SpendMatters & HfS): For showing how to run a small, feisty business
Jay Desai (Northern Trust): Just calling it how it is
Jeanne Achille (Devon Gp): Giving us a professional veneer (when we really needed one!)
John Hindle, Sarah Thomas, Shari Wenker, Mike Salvino and Kevin Campbell (Accenture): Believing in us from the start, oh and plenty of Pink Champagne and Formula 1
John Transier (Unilever): A great sport
Jolie Newman: Just being helpful
Jonty Woodhouse: For making us legal!
Lee Coulter (Acsension Health): Making me laugh – from the start
Mark Reed-Edwards (HfS): For putting up with me
Michelle Liukin (HfS): The invoice queen
Mike Atwood: Being there in the early days
Mum and Dad: For having complete confidence this would work
My wife: For putting up with all this cr*p
Peter Allen (CSC): Being such a great thinker
Pramod Bhasin, Tiger, Gianni Giacomelli and Bob Pryor (Genpact): Great contributors and supporters
Prof. Leslie Willcocks and Dr. Will Venters (at the London School of Economic): For flouting establishment and partnering with us
Ray Wang (Constellation): Fellow analyst rebel
Ritesh Idnani, Pranay Juyal and Wendy Shlensky (Infosys): Believing in us, and teaching us how to negotiate!
Roxanna Wall (UBS): For always believing in us
Simon Newton (Kimberly Clark): A great sport and a great guy
Stan Lepeak (EquaTerra/KPMG): Keeping the faith
Stephanie Overby (CIO Magazine): For giving us media-cred
The Enterprise Irregulars: For providing a remarkable amount of entertainment and value
The old AMR team (now Gartner): Providing such a great platform for HfS – and not suing us!
The ValueNotes team: For being reliable
Tony Filippone (WellPoint): The vendor governor
TPI: Being good sports…I know I give you a hard time : )
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Many congratulations, Phil and team. You are doing an absolutely wonderful job for the analyst industry – and the services market,
James D.
Rock on HFS! A whole year already – well done guys,
Gaurav
Many congratulation HFS – quite the achievement! You perform such a valuable service – and resource – for the outsourcing industry,
Jason Brevitz
Phil and team:
How time flies – may your second year bring you even more success and deserved recognition,
Robert Stainrod
Excellent achievement, HFS team. I did wonder at the beginning how this would work, and you’ve really proven the Research 2.0 model works. Bravo!
Johnny
Happy Birthday, HfS Research. You have worked wonders to grow so quickly and become such a cornerstone of the research industry,
Warren Miles
Many congratulations to the HfS Research team. You’ve been a credit to the sourcing industry with your excellent research and blogs,
Alain
Phil and team: just promise you’re not going to become a mini-Gartner -:)
In all seriousness, well done on achieving this milestone – you should all be very proud,
Eric
Well done on achieving your first year as a research company! It’s great to come here and find out what’s “really” going in in outsourcing,
Amanda Hare
Congrats to the HFS research team! Here’s to another year,
Ted Donnelly
It seems like only yesterday that you started. Well done on achieving so much so quickly,
Suresh
Congratulations on a well deserved one year run. Looking forward to many more such years to come! Thanks for a great insights into the real outsourcing world !
Congratulations on a well deserved one year run. Looking forward to many more such years to come! Thanks for the great insights into the real outsourcing world !
Thanks for all the best wishes! Your support is very much appreciated,
Phil
Fantastic, Phil and team.
Congratulations and let us know where and when is the party 🙂
Happy Birthday Phil & HfS! You’ve come along way in a year and we’re looking forward to working with you for many more. Cheers to you all, Wendy Shlensky
Happy B-Day!… i did remember that last year around these days it was your birthday 😉 Congrats!