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It really does roll downhill…
Iit's all about the leader and the team he or she molds under them, to drive the vision and instill passion down through their organizationsRead More
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Time for HP to shephurd its BPO business
When Mark Hurd took up the reins as HP's boss back in 2005, the company badly needed him to stabilize the business, drive up the stock price, and add discipline and cost-control into many of its global operations. And whatever the reason for his demise (quite frankly, he's not Tiger Woods, so who cares?), he's done what HP needed him to do - and this is a good time to put someone else at the helm who can start closing the gap with IBM and others. In fact, he should have gone sooner, because there's a lot of ground to be made up right across the board. One of those is a flagging BPO business that had outperformed anyone's expectations before the EDS merger threw it into a confused shambles.Read More
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Check out our monthly newsletter: “The Finish Line”
Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Finish Line! We will endeavor to gather and distill the significant news and information in global sourcing on a monthly basis to present to you. On selected key issues, we will provide insight and commentary from the Horses team and other thought leaders. We hope that you find The Finish Line useful, interesting and insightful.Read More
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Meet the sourcing gangsters in Chicago
HfS has teamed with its networking partner, SSON, to present a superior discussion across the world of finance and sourcing, with Jay Desai, one of the buy-side's most respected voices for sourcing governance, Capgemini's own sourcing sherif David Poole, the pontiff of procurement Jason Busch... all moderated by HfS.Read More
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Wang / Fersht uncut. Part II
Analysts Phil Fersht and Ray Wang air some recent discussions on the world of social media and the convergence of software delivery and outsourcing… here’s part II Read More
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Wang / Fersht uncut. Part I
Analysts Phil Fersht and Ray Wang air some recent discussions on the world of social media and the convergence of software delivery and outsourcing... here's part IRead More
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New HfS Report – Desperately Seeking Innovation in BPO: Enterprises Speak Out
Innovation is now the critical ingredient for most buyers of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services –unequivocally proven by a new HfS Research study of 588 shared services and outsourcing executives. This report dives into the experiences and expectations of today’s enterprise BPO buyers when it comes to achieving innovation, and offers actionable recommendations for devising a strategy to improve their innovation agenda with their BPO endeavor. Read More
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HfS Research shows some analyst horsepower
HfS Research ranks 15th in the latest analyst "power rankings" by ARInsights, a dynamic content rich database that contains comprehensive information on 5,511 analysts from 694 different firms.Read More
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The rumors are true – we’re actually doing some research
We're developing a fully-fledged research agenda which we will be excited to announce in September, when we will also be annoucing the arrival of some new analysts. So feel free to visit our new RESEARCH LIBRARY and check out what we're writing about.Read More
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Hewitt into AON: a sad, bad day for HR Outsourcing?
Waking up this morning to hear the news of Hewitt's acquisition by AON signalled a sad, bad day for HR Outsourcing. The HRO industry is now consolidating faster than any of us imagined... forget ADP/Workscape, this is BIG - and leaves the global HRO market with three major global HRO enterprise-level providers - IBM, NGA and Xerox (ACS) Read More
