Category: kpo-analytics
Getting good at GBS governance: Why heroes don’t scale
This governance group has the challenge of managing an increasingly complex environment, with aspirations much loftier than in the past to achieve the right maturity levels to run GBS effectively.Read More
East meets West in a cloudy love-match
The cost-competitive offshore scale and expertise of HCL meets the onshore domain expertise, legacy integration skills and data center resources of CSCRead More
2014 shared services and outsourcing outlook Part II: Why GBS will not be bullsh*t
While several folks make valid arguments why GBS may be a pipe-dream for their own organization (or some of their clients' organizations), we believe they are missing the big pictureRead More
Industry analysts: a new world order is already coming
The future of analysts is about providing clients the experiences they need to be smarter and more effective at what they do, not selling them something pre-packaged that everyone else already hasRead More
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
The 2013 Enterprise Analytics Services Blueprint is announced: Accenture, Genpact, IBM, Infosys and Wipro make the Winners Circle
And finally one of the most complex Blueprints is finally final, where we researched across the services lines to ascertain which outsourcing service providers are delivering the goods for enterprise analytics servicesRead More
Robotistan takes a seat at the BPO Security Council
Last year, we noticed there was a new nation-state “Robotistan” making its presence felt at this august world body and we, at HfS, wondered how significant a player it could become in matters of the BPO and shared services nation states.Read More