Category: Digital OneOffice
Happy one-year birthday, Microsoft Copilot. Now, can you be more than a quick AI win for the lazy CIO?
It’s been exactly two years since ChatGPT 3.0 hit the streets and dramatically changed the AI conversation. One of the key beneficiaries has been Microsoft Copilot, which, in barely one year, has generated a remarkable $1 billion in revenues and created a vehicle for CIOs to claim early “AI victory” to their corporate leaders hungry to exploit the delights of this AI revolution. So, with Microsoft positioning Copilot as the new "UI for AI," what do CIOs and their C-Suite counterparts need to do to achieve more value than a glossy AI veneer?Read More
2030 HFS Services Technology Vision: The Future of Services is No Services
By 2030, we will be engaging with services primarily through technology, minimizing human intervention and maximizing efficiency. In fact, services will barely even be services anymoreRead More
The great GenAI paradox: It can make you dumber
The reality of GenAI integration into the workplace reveals a paradox: while the initial productivity gains are evident, they often come with hidden costs that can offset the benefits by creating new challenges. The highest cost that must be addressed is when people become over-reliant on GenAI to develop solutions and suffer a decline in their learning capabilities.Read More
GenAI or Die
We've finally reached the point in our careers when we need to learn new and more ingenious ways of doing things. No more papering over the cracks, no more passing the problems onto someone else to fix. YOU are the problem that now needs fixing. Generative AI is your secret weapon. It tears down barriers, fuels innovation, and keeps you ahead of the curve. Adapt or perish – the choice is yours.Read More
Ten reasons why GPT-4o will pour fuel onto the GenAI smoldering platform
Having multimodal capability that brings speech, text, video, and content together into one singular neural network that we can communicate with in real-time and immerse into our day-to-day activities is the game changer we have been unwittingly waiting for...Read More
From People to Tech arbitrage: Can we really survive this Great Services Transition?
We are in the S-Curve evolution from People to Technology Arbitrage, that the Generative Enterprise demands. This is truly the Great Services Transition, where the entire financial construct of services relationships is being reinvented to capitalize on the complex new ecosystem of AI platform players, hyperscalers, data integration products, automation tools, LLM builders, and so on. Enterprises must address their debts in these four areas which have likely collected over the last 30+ years: People debt, Process debt, Data debt and Technical debt.Read More
Services firms are out of runway. They must forget Labor Arbitrage and conform to Technology Arbitrage
The fundamental value creation lever in the legacy Labor Arbitrage era has been the centralization of people in a global delivery model. The fundamental value lever in the Technology Arbitrage era is all about architecting and orchestrating the rapidly changing technology ecosystem in line with the client’s business model. It’s past time for the IT and BPO Services industry to jump to a new S-curve driven by Technology Arbitrage if they wish to get back to another season of hockey stick growth.Read More
Pharmas’ desire to accelerate results is being matched by supplier sophistication…mostly
In the HFS Horizons: Life Sciences Service Providers, 2023 study, we evaluated 29 service providers for their ability to address the cost (Horizon 1), experience (Horizon 2), and health outcomes (Horizon 3) for health consumers globally. Read More
Ray Kurzweil to Keynote the HFS Spring Summit 2024!
We are thrilled to announce Ray Kurzweil as our first confirmed keynote at the HFS Spring Summit 2024, scheduled to take place from May 8th to May 9th in New York.Read More
Accenture, Capgemini, Genpact, IBM, Infosys, TCS—the F&A entourage leading the way to Horizon 3 outcomes
HFS conducted an exhaustive research exercise into 15 of the key service providers in the latest Horizons report on F&A Service Providers, 2023, by diving deep into the capabilities of each and how they have contributed to the changing F&A landscape over the last year. Read More