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Category: Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
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Outsourcing: a symptom of a failing education system?
Most people still claim they really outsource to save money - of course that's an immediate benefit, but you wouldn't even be considering it, if you had operations in place that were really good.Read More
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NorthgateArinso: Is it ready to give the HRO market a boost?
Despite a challenging economy, NorthgateArinso grew revenues 8.5% in its 2009/2010 fiscal year and increased win rates in its HRO business. The company has made significant investments in its core technology platforms, established an extensive global delivery infrastructure, created a massive library of process standards, is in the midst of a company-wide rollout of Six Sigma, and has been developing the culture and skills it thinks are required for execution excellence and improved customer satisfaction.Read More
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WellPoint’s governator, Tony Filippone, joins HfS as Research Vice President
Please welcome Mr Anthony Filippone to the hallowed ground of HfS analyst, industry thought-leader, and, most notably, the role of Governator-ExtraordinaireRead More
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The Finance & Accounting BPO market landscape in 2011
This report delivers an unprecedented view of the F&A BPO industry, based on 788 live engagements, where organizations have outsourced two or more core F&A processes to a service provider. In addition to exhaustive contract information, HfS draws upon recent demand-side survey analysis to deliver the complete view of the market dynamics, the service provider landscape and the future expected direction of the industry.Read More
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HP’s strategy: is it plotting, or losing the plot?
Unless HP is plotting a radical move to buy SAP, or some other ERP business, HP seems to be letting itself down badly - the firm needs new thinkers who can drive innovation and a new direction into the business, because right now, most industry observers are left scratching their heads trying to figure out what the game-plan is.Read More
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Why HfS is the first analyst to deliver real-time BPO price-benchmarking
HfS today launched the research industry’s first price-benchmarking practice, the HfS BPO PriceIndicator™, to cover business process outsourcing (BPO) functions. These include business processes specific to Finance and Accounting, Procurement, Human Resources and industry-specific outsourcing functions, such as healthcare, insurance and bankingRead More
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Where have all the consultants gone?
You’re probably not aware of a very subtle, but tectonic shift going on in the business process outsourcing industry which has implications for all those things that we all tout as benefits of sourcing—innovation, deep domain experience, true client partnershipsRead More
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Join us in London for SIG’s Regional Roundtable
This event represents SIG's first major foray into the UK, and it promises to set new sourcing standards, featuring integral discussions on global business operations strategy, sourcing, shared services and BPORead More
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Genpact spurns its suitors to IT-enable its BPO, with India’s third largest acquisition
So why did Genpact buy Headstrong, in the third-largest acquisition ever made by an India-based provider, since Wipro picked up InfoCrossing for a cool $600m in 2007, and HCL-Axon for a similar sum, the following year? And, most importantly, what does this mean for the immediate future of the BPO business?Read More
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HfS Podcast: Why Latin America? …And why now?
HfS VP of Marketing Mark Reed-Edwards got together with Esteban Herrera, HfS COO, and Euan Davis, Managing Director of HfS' European Research Practice get together to discuss the LatAm region and its development in the global sourcing industry.Read More
