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So what on earth does the future hold for sourcing advisors?
Last week's outsourcing advisory bombshell wedding between KPMG and EquaTerra may well prove to be a turning point in the way buyers are serviced in the future. Management consultants need to have deep experience, knowledge and data on the operational guts of outsourcing, while boutique advisors need to offer a much broader consultative value proposition for clients who are tackling global operational issues. So what on earth does the future hold for sourcing advisors?Read More
EquaTerra + KPMG – a new era, or a new error for outsourcing advisory?
So... has KPMG made a wise move purchasing EquaTerra, and how will this impact the industry?Read More
Outsourcing your leadership team: build it… or buy it?
There are similarities between good companies and good football teams: solid staff employees that consistently make the right decisions at the right time. So if you are the helm of a flagging enterprise, should you nurture management talent internally or go to market for it?Read More
HfS Research announces two new analyst additions to boost data analytics and strategic research acumen
We're excited to announce a couple of terrific new additions to the core research team at HfS. Our goal is to provide our research clients with a unique blend of "real world" sourcing expertise, backed up with real-time research, market data and analytics. Read More
Egypt’s crisis: where social media threatens global outsourcing
When the first response of the government, in times of political crisis, is to shut down the Web, this has a massive impact on the nation's global sourcing infrastructure to support global businesses.Read More
Will India’s desire for short-term profit trump the need to re-invest beyond the current market spike?
You won't see a CEO being removed after achieving a double-digit growth rate too often, but that's just what happened, when Wipro's co-chiefs Suresh Vaswani and Girish Paranjpe stepped down last weekRead More
Learn what 1,000 of your colleagues really think about Cloud Business Services
HfS Research, in partnership with the Outsourcing Unit of the London School of Economics, is hosting a webinar, sponsored by Accenture, featuring the key findings from the groundbreaking study of Cloud Business Services.Read More
Are you ready to turn on… to HfS research dot com?
A few memories from the HfS team, as we ready for something just a little bit special, coming very soon to a laptop near you. And ask yourself - are you ready? Read More
Latin America: The Next Sourcing Frontier or an Afterthought?
We've been encouraged to see many providers paying more than lip service to Latin America as a region for growth and business opportunity. Previously the un-loved stepchild of the outsourcing geographies, Latin America does hold promise for those who approach it the right way—and there is more than one right way to approach it.Read More
2011: The Year your provider vies to be your service integrator. Will you play ball?
Europe’s Logica begins its New Year by inking an intriguing partnership with Microsoft. What, at first glance, looks like a rather mundane partnership really signals something else: That its going to be the business driving Cloud—Logica gets this and so does Microsoft. And each needs the other.Read More
