Category: Outsourcing Advisors
Outsourcing advisors must be governance experts armed with research if they want to survive
Advisors need to provider governance support and research in order to surviveRead More
Accenture de-emphasizes the term “outsourcing” – is this the final death knell for the O word?
Accenture's dropping the term "outsourcing" from its strategy line is the most significant yet in terms of rebranding the outsourcing businessRead More
Why the outsourcing industry is so horrible at marketing itself
One fact I would challenge anyone on is the abject failure of the outsourcing industry to market itselfRead 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
Naomi Bloom: HRO needs to focus on business analyst services, not call center/manual processing
It will be fascinating to see if the larger SIs and/or HRO providers will be able to craft just the right mix of quality and cost-effectiveness to be successful in delivering much smaller, less labor-intensive and more tool-based implementation and post-implementation HR services.Read More
And what a week that was! Relive those Blueprint moments…
Thanks to all of you who made the effort be part of a great December networking escapade in the Big AppleRead More
We are HfS. Yes we are!
As we gather the largest-ever superstar assemblage of sourcing leaders in New York, let's have a look back at how we got here as an industryRead More
A different circus with a different set of clowns… the legendary Bruce Rogow talks to HfS, Part II
You really need progression planning where you determine the skill set you’ll need going forward, because it’s a different circus with different clowns.Read More
Traditional outsourcing advisory is dead.
And when the world's number 1 management thinker, Clayton Christensen, writes about Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption, you know it's officially game-over for the way consultants have traditionally delivered effort-based high-cost projects for wizening clientsRead More