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The undisputed facts about outsourcing, Part 1: Buyers are saving money, but aren’t seeing a whole lot more
Whatever the motives buyers have when they outsource, the first critical metric they must reach is to save the money they were promised at the onset of the engagement. And we have spectacularly good news for the entire outsourcing industry - the cost savings targets are being met - and being met well, with over 95% of current buyers viewing the engagements as effective for reducing their operating costs. However, that's pretty much where the good news tapers off, as the rest of the results are pretty modestRead More
It’s hard to be CSC
It’s hard to be CSC. A perennial subject of acquisition chatter, it has built in poison pills in the form of gnarly government contracts with lots of limitations on who can own them and what can be done with them. This represents a disproportionate part of their revenue when compared to their competitors.Read More
CMOs need support and guidance from their CIOs… like never before
IBM’s Institute for Business Value (IBM Global Services’ executive research group) announced findings from its huge CIO survey undertaken every 2 years. It’s a massive piece of work involving 3000 one hour face-to-face interviews with CIOs from around the world—this year it has some great news for CMOs. Read More
Genpact looks for added bite with Tiger
After 14 years, the effervescent Pramod Bhasin, now in his 60th year, is handing the reins to “Tiger” Tyagarajan, the company's current COO, and long-serving member of the leadership teamRead More
Cognizant: The Future of Work or the Present Forever?
Cognizant is at present the darling of the IT offshore services and outsourcing industry for its consistent and impressive growth and positive levels of customer satisfaction, so we thought we’d share some impressions with our readers.Read More
What’s your state of outsourcing in 2011? Your views are critical…
Whether you buy, sell, advise or analyze outsourcing services, YOUR opinion is critical for our new study we're conducting with our academic friends who run the Outsourcing Unit at the London School of Economics.Read More
Utilities: Next Practices for a Stealth Outsourcing Giant
Shhh… Don’t tell anyone, but while most of us weren’t looking, the utilities industry quietly racked up $25 billion in annual spend on outsourcing—that’s in the US alone! How did this happen? How did this get past the regulators and the unions? Who knew that outsourcing would not only grow, but stick, in this most conservative of industries?Read More
Special Webinar: Meet HfS Research Up Close and Personal this Thursday
IG President and CEO Dawn Evans will join HfS Founder and CEO Phil Fersht, along with HfS COO Esteban Herrera, new HfS Research Governator VP Tony Filippone, and HfS VP of Marketing Mark Reed-Edwards for an hour-long look at HfS. You'll find out more about the exciting new partnership between HfS and SIG. we'll discuss the HfS research agenda, what's in store for 2011, and how you can get involved, access the research and collaborate with HfS analysts and other SIG members about next practices for sourcing and businessRead More
Outsourcing: a symptom of a failing education system?
Most people still claim they really outsource to save money - of course that's an immediate benefit, but you wouldn't even be considering it, if you had operations in place that were really good.Read More
