Category: Outsourcing Advisors
Dallas, we have a problem: Advisors struggling to deliver Expertise-as-a-Service
Consultants are supposed to be like doctors - they need to use the latest tools, technologies and knowledge at their disposal to help their clientsRead More
Speed dating their way to a quick divorce… Rick Simmonds talks up his new advisory firm Aecus
What about the UK advisory firm formerly known as "Alsbridge Plc"? Answer, it renamed itself "Aecus", named after one of the sons of Zeus. Phil Fersht talks to Rick Simmonds about where the direction the new firm is takingRead More
Cost is the New Black: The Overbearing Paradoxical C-Suite Imperative for 2015
60% of enterprise C-Suites are actively seeking to reduce their reliance on labor in their operations - but most are discovering they need to work smarter before they can work cheaper.Read More
Skill not Scale: The Massive Opportunity Awaiting the Services Industry
There needs to be a coming-together of consulting and outsourcing service delivery, the likes of which we have yet to see at a broad scale in the services industryRead More
Finally… the great Alsbridge Europe mystery unravelled
Alsbridge CEO Chip Wagner talks to HfS about its new European growth strategy... and a few other thingsRead More
The Evolving Maturity of Robotic Process Automation
The HfS RPA Maturity Model assesses where an individual service provider sits with regards to the maturity of its RPA strategyRead More
Why some service providers are grimly clinging onto the labor-arbitrage model
A new breed of service provider has to emerge, which can disrupt the legacy labor-based modelRead More
The Ten Tenets Driving the As-a-Service Economy
As the As-a-Service Economy continues to emerge and evolve, it is the belief of HfS that the model will follow ten key tenetsRead More
Shamelessly Shamus: Why Europe is positioned to leapfrog the United States
Did you hear the one about the Mamil (middle aged man in lycra), who got off his bike, donned a suit and tie and joined a Big 4 consulting firm to wax lyrical about sourcing strategy?Read More
Welcome to the era of churn, where 50% of outsourcing contracts are at risk
Clients are genuinely walking away from outsourcing relationships which provide mediocre valueRead More