Category: IT Outsourcing / IT Services
Employees are bored and fearless to move, but see real potential if their leaders realize its no longer 2005
Service provider leaders must get their heads out of the sand and challenge both their clients and their staff to raise the value of their partnerships. The problem ultimately lies with bad leadership, not bad working attitudes.Read More
Goodbye Top Ten and Hello HFS Horizons!
We are unveiling "HFS Horizons" to align the performance of service providers and tech suppliers with the outcomes they help their clients define, the great experiences their clients enjoy, and the synergies their clients are developing across their ecosystem partners to create new sources of value.Read More
Two thirds of BPO customers want to pay for achieving business outcomes… only a third for butts-on-seats
Today's current “effort-based” BPO (BPM) services model is failing, but there is hope that this industry can course-correct its outmoded ways of behaving, with two-thirds of enterprise leaders preferring an outcome-based approach.Read More
Is it Aiman Ezzat? It most certainly is!
As it approaches its $20bn revenue milestone, it's high time we caught up with Group CEO Aiman Ezzat to understand what's driving this growth since he took the helm over two years agoRead More
Effort, Performance, Purpose: The Three Evolutions of Services
The future of IT and business services must evolve from today's effort-based model to one that drives performance and, ultimately, common purpose between client and supplier.Read More
Service providers must buy Atos’ crown jewels now and learn from dithering over Kyndryl
With its proposed contentious Kyndryl-style split and rapid CEO departure, Atos is teetering on the brink. As if its decline in stock price, recent accounting scandals, and lackluster financial performance were not enough, the firm now is more primed than ever for being acquired with these latest developments. HFS believes competitors should move to acquire Atos’ jewels now and not wait for the bleeding to start.So what are the lessons learned from IBM’s Kyndryl spin-off and what is HFS’s take on the current predicament in which Atos finds itself?Read More
Why many tech and business services CEOs are praying for a recession
The IT and business services industry is likely to benefit considerably from a global recession as cost-control takes center stage, in addition to the urgent need from enterprises to migrate securely to the cloud, automate processes and get cleaner, quicker access to data. Read More
It is time to party like it’s 2019 if we’re going to save the services industry
Anyone close to the coal-face of IT and business process services engagements knows it, but few are admitting it: staff attrition is out of control and threatening to destroy the whole fabric of outsourcing if service providers fail to get ahead of it.Read More
Live from New York! It’s the HFS Super Summit, September 13 and 14
On September 13 and 14, HFS will bring together enterprise leaders for a no-holds-barred, two-day HFS Super Summit. Live from New York!Read More
Outsourcing today is about providing your firm oxygen to stay alive, not cost savings
In today’s highly complex, uncertain, and difficult business environment, outsourcing might just save your business.Read More