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Category: Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
HP and CSC beware: Dell is quietly becoming a major threat to the traditional IT services providers
It is my personal belief that the likes of HP and CSC will be sweating from the oncoming threat from the Austin-based firm's $8.5 billion services arm in the not-too-distant future, not to mention some of the flagging Indian firms struggling to rediscover their mojoes.Read More
156 billion reasons why Lars and SAP were never meant to be
Lars leaving so quickly symbolizes SAP's struggle, in my mind, to change its culture and approach to disruptive business models. The economics of the cloud cannot print anywhere near as much money for our German friends as the current legacy ecosystem of clunky enterprises, whose IT managers simply do not want to invite change or disruption. If your clients don't want to change, why should you?Read More
Welcome to Gautam’s city
We were pleasantly surprised when Gautam Thakkar got the nod to take on the reins at InfosysBPO last month. Here Phil Fersht and Gautam discuss his new role and how he intends to take the InfosysBPO forwardRead More
Congratulations and welcome to Christa, Ned, Tom and Jamie!
It gives me great pleasure to announce some imminent new analyst arrivals at HfS, in addition to announcing the promotion of a couple of guys who've been instrumental in the development of this business, which has literately sprung from nowhere in three years to the monstrosity it has become todayRead More
So… are these the world’s best outsourcing advisors?
The IAOP has announced it's 2013 "best outsourcing advisors", and kudos to my former employer, Deloitte, for coming top. Credit has to go out to Peter Lowes and his Outsourcing Advisory Services group for their achievement. In addition, KPMG's Shared Services and Advisory Group, led my Cliff Justice, finished in second place - a strong showing and justification of their 2011 acquisition of EquaTerra. The biggest surprises, however, are the absences of ISG, the largest transaction advisor of outsourcing contracts, and PwC...Read More
Replay of last week’s webinar: A Tour of Robotistan Outsourcing’s Cheapest Destination
Replay of last week's webinar: A Tour of Robotistan Outsourcing's Cheapest DestinationRead More
The dreamSource files… There are too many kings of bullsh*t who still sail through these training certifications
There are too many kings of bullsh*t who still sail through these training certificationsRead More
The dreamSource files… Gartner only focuses on “step 1” for outsourcing. We’re all way beyond that
And over at dreamSource, where 82% of the buyers have never completed a training class for outsourcing or shared services governanceRead More
The dreamSource files… I can train my people to have technical skills, but I can’t give them a personality transplant
And over at dreamSource, where 48% of the buyers have experienced strategic skills becoming more important than tactical skills for managing their outsourcing engagements, since they embarked on their initiativeRead More
The dreamSource files… it’s not fair to place the change management onus onto the provider, it’s our accountability to change
And over at dreamSource, where 72% of the buyers work in company's where the CEO on down focus predominantly on cost... Read More
