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Healthcare Reform: The scramble for outsourcing business begins
Whoever said Obama was going to be bad news for the outsourcing business? The outsourcing market has rebounded heavily with the economic recovery and the successful passage of the new Heathcare Reform Bill has both the IT outsourcers and BPOs on red-alert for a barrage of new business oppirtunities. The need for payors to manage their administrative costs has never been as intense as it is now, with the fixed medical loss ratios. Read More
Are you a New Polymath?
The New Polymath is an enterprise which is comfortable with a wide range of technologies and has learned to package 3,5,10 strands of infotech, cleantech, nanotech, biotech etc into complex new solutions to solve some of the big and small problems we face.Read More
Why innovation in global business operations is critical for survival
We would argue that achieving innovation in the global support operations of businesses, is often the only lever most firms can pull to remain competitive in this economy. In most cases, it’s not enterprises' products and services that have to change, but the speed and efficiency with which they can adapt to the changing environment, that now provides the competitive edge. Read More
We’re letting our research do the talking – see for yourself
Unlike other research entities who stick their stuff behind a paywall, we've decided the proof is in the pudding, because we want people to actually read our stuff and call us up. So as a gesture of thanks for all the support we've received during our first month on the job, we're giving away three pieces of our latest research to give you an idea of what we're all about.Read More
The myth-busting continues
There's been another scintillating debate on the "Innovation" topic. If you have a few minutes, we suggest you visit the recent piece entitled "Busting the innovation myth" submitted to us by a top advisor choosing to remain anonymous. A couple of insightful and accurate views were contributed by Equaterra's COO Mark Robinson and CSC's Predisent of global sales and marketing, Peter AllenRead More
Seeking the “Normal Normal”… here’s the re-run
Here's the re-run of the webcast we conducted with or friends over at Global Services Media and SSON, where we surveyed the intentions of 1,055 buyers, intermediaries and vendors on current outsourcing industry dynamicsRead More
The Industry Speaks, Part VI: Customers increasingly look to industry-specific BPO solutions, but which vendors will ultimately invest to define and deliver them?
The move to greater domain-specificity is intrinsically tied to the business utility model of the future, where we are starting to see signs of the convergence of SaaS, Cloud and BPO/ITO models within an engagement structure Read More
The Industry Speaks, Part IV: Cloud services will separate the “real” business services providers from the body-shoppers
Cloud Computing presents the biggest opportunity for today's services vendors to deliver blended IT/BPO services. Vendors pushing standard labor arbitrage services under a thin veneer of "Cloud marketing" will quickly get cast aside as the table-stakes get a lot tougher Read More
The Industry Speaks, Part II: When the labor arbitrage deals dry-up (and they will), customers will select vendors that can deliver business-value beyond basic low-cost services
let's talk about outsourcing vendors, and what on earth they are going to do when these tasty labor-arbitrage deals start to fizzle-out. Read More
