Category: Artificial Intelligence

  • Joe Biden to keynote at the HFS Summit

    April 01, 2025 |

    HFS Research, the analyst firm which coined the term “Services-as-Software” has added former president Joe Biden to its stellar line up of speakers, which include CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and Wharton School Professor Ethan Mollick. He will address the impact of AI on the United States under the theme “The Agentic President”.Read More

  • It’s time for a work reset to escape our humanist recession

    March 25, 2025 |

    We have to reset our current work habits and refocus on our futures. Otherwise, we’ll withdraw more and more into a world where we’re becoming imposters. We must embrace change, refuel our passions, and tune out all the rhetoric and noise.My advice is to focus on building closer work relationships, get out more, and meet more people.  Working with people, locking heads, building friendships, sharing experiences... this is what energizes us.  At the end of the day, we're all mammals, and we need each other.Read More

  • You must fight your FOBO… your Fear Of Becoming Obsolete!

    March 22, 2025 |

    You can blame your company's culture or your management's cynical approach to cost-cutting as being the key reason behind failed AI experiments, but ultimately, you need to train yourself to be an AI warrior, unafraid of the battles ahead, to stay relevant, creative, collaborative, and completely irreplaceable. You must fight your Fear Of Becoming Obsolete! Read More

  • If you can’t move your people, then move your code — Services-as-Software is the new trade route

    March 11, 2025 | ,

    If you can’t move your people, then move your code — Services-as-Software is the new trade route with agents supercharging our workforce.Protectionism isn't just disrupting your current vendor relationships—it's fundamentally transforming how services are delivered to your organization. As more governments try to lock down supply chains, labor markets, and data flows, service providers are left with no choice but to accelerate their shift toward Services-as-Software. Read More

  • AI, tariffs and de-globalization could drive services creation in the US

    March 04, 2025 |

    Suddenly, we find ourselves in a world where moving work around the world carries a lot more risk... and cost. The changing nature of the US workforce supports the possibility of services coming to the US as anxious businesses look to get ahead of global risk and uncertainty. Only a fool would ignore the magnitude of what is happening in our geopolitical landscape. Read More

  • Are we finally ready to ‘UnBPO’ ourselves?

    February 28, 2025 | ,

    Firstsource just put BPO on notice.  It’s not just talking about transformation—it’s daring the entire industry to burn the old playbook.Read More

  • 2025 is the breakthrough year for Generative Enterprise — and partnering with a capable services partner is critical

    Prepare for a breakthrough year in the Generative Enterprise—powered by the potential of agentic AI to deliver end-to-end, self-improving, cross-silo processes to achieve business outcomes, the promise of deregulation, and greater access to infrastructure of the Stargate program, and a new wave of LLM innovation exemplified by China’s DeepSeek. Our Generative Enterprise Services Horizons report 2025 identified several trends: how service providers are meeting enterprise needs, effectively training people, what enterprises need more of from their service partners, and what customers and partners have to say about their service experiences.Read More

  • Services-as-Software presents a $1.5 Trillion Opportunity for both Software and Services firms

    February 07, 2025 | ,

    Enter Services-as-Software—an AI-first, automated service layer that’s coming to obliterate everything in its path. No more billable hours. No more clunky SaaS. Services-as-Software is not a death knell for service providers and software vendors. It’s the $1.5 trillion opportunity of our lifetime. Read More

  • Modern-day work culture:  It’s all about ME, ME, ME

    January 05, 2025 |

    People don’t suddenly decide to become selfish. This is a product of the dehumanizing dynamics in the work environment, which results in people crying out for affirmation and a sense of connectedness that is missing from our work lives. "ME" is the world we live in, but we need to focus more on "US" to improve work culture.Read More

  • Welcome to the era of Services-as-Software… where the lines between services and software are blurring

    December 22, 2024 | ,

    Two very different worlds, one based on humans and the other on technology, are becoming one blended, scalable solution we are calling Services-as-Software. In short, the line between services and software is blurring and eventually vanishing, and this progression has become more crucial than ever.Read More