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Category: Captives and Shared Services Strategies
Parikh preaches, prophesizes and prognosticates… Part 1
Phil Fersht interviews Avasant CEO, Kevin Parikh (Part 1)Read More
Europe’s finest enterprise operators take on the USA at the Cambridge University Blueprint Sessions. Who’s sourcing smarter?
This June we are assembling the ultimate pool of European and American services talent to duke it out on the hallowed lawns of Cambridge's Gonville and Caius CollegeRead More
BPO: Pronounced dead, but still very much alive
BPO is just at the beginning of a much more dynamic phase of its existence and it at least three years' away from being put to bed.Read More
Cogny cogitates on a new industrial revolution
Genpact's Patrick Cogny talks to Phil Fersht about how the firm is approaching the manufacturing sector with what he calls the "New Industrial Revolution"Read More
Getting good at GBS governance: Why heroes don’t scale
This governance group has the challenge of managing an increasingly complex environment, with aspirations much loftier than in the past to achieve the right maturity levels to run GBS effectively.Read More
2014 shared services and outsourcing outlook Part II: Why GBS will not be bullsh*t
While several folks make valid arguments why GBS may be a pipe-dream for their own organization (or some of their clients' organizations), we believe they are missing the big pictureRead More
2014 shared services and outsourcing outlook Part I: It’s time for enterprises to stop being really good at irrelevant stuff
In 2014, ambitious operations leaders must begin achieve a certain degree of maturity across their operations before they can really address achieving their desired outcomesRead More
Predicting and postulating potential procurement provider positioning post-Procurian purchase
We wanted to spend some time thinking about the implications of the Accenture/Procurian merger for the other service providers in the Procurement Outsourcing marketplaceRead More
Can HR ever overcome its obsession with the automation of obsolete processes?
Why do so many HR executives obsess with administering irrelevant processes when they should be helping their firms' managers get the best out of their staff?Read More
