Category: Global Business Services
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
HR in the Cloud: It won’t kill HRO, but it may kill what’s left of dysfunctional HR…
The emergence of more affordable Cloud based solutions is finally - after decades of disarray - making it possible for firms to stop starring into the HR abyss and start getting functional again.Read More
Why so many cost-obsessed CEOs will fail if they ignore their supplier management capabilities
Recessions are good times for business leaders who love to focus on containing costs, however, times of recovery are markedly differentRead More
We are HfS. Yes we are!
As we gather the largest-ever superstar assemblage of sourcing leaders in New York, let's have a look back at how we got here as an industryRead 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
Traditional outsourcing advisory is dead.
And when the world's number 1 management thinker, Clayton Christensen, writes about Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption, you know it's officially game-over for the way consultants have traditionally delivered effort-based high-cost projects for wizening clientsRead More
What happens when you put the leaders of an industry in one room?
However which was we look at this, this is going to be one helluva crowd - with a bevvy of buyside sourcing and shared services leaders from 60 major organizations, in addition to this motley crewRead More
What happens when you combine HfS and The Conference Board to talk GBS… in Chicago?
Still confused with GBS, but too afraid to ask what it's all about? Then never fear as Deb Kops and the HfS team have the answers... in ChicagoRead More
Pankaj ponders, postulates and problem-solves: meet Genpact’s analytics guru
HfS talks to Genpact's Pankaj Kulshreshtha, whose analytics group has exploded from 10 to 6000 people under his guidance Read More