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The dreamSource files… I can train my people to have technical skills, but I can’t give them a personality transplant
And over at dreamSource, where 48% of the buyers have experienced strategic skills becoming more important than tactical skills for managing their outsourcing engagements, since they embarked on their initiativeRead More
The dreamSource files… it’s not fair to place the change management onus onto the provider, it’s our accountability to change
And over at dreamSource, where 72% of the buyers work in company's where the CEO on down focus predominantly on cost... Read More
If there’s something strange with your processes, who ya gonna call? Ghoshbusters…
Anyone close to business services over the last decade would have crossed paths with one little guy with a huge brain: Genpact's Shantanu Ghosh. Read More
So if the rockstars have gone, what’s left in the analyst industry?
Most of the big analyst personalities have seemingly fled the analyst industry... many for the riches on offer from their vendor clients, clearly seeing more ROI from employing them, as opposed to purchasing their firm's services. However, this hasn't prevented the remaining legacy purveyors of analyst services from making a living.Read More
Achieving new-world innovation: promote your innermost qualities to the world unashamedly
Achieving new-world innovation: promote your innermost qualities to the world unashamedlyRead More
Why American firms are more progressive with outsourcing than the Europeans and Asians
Why is it always the Americans at the head of the queue when it comes to increasing quarterly profit margins? But, even more intriguingly, why are they also leading the way when it comes to attempting to improve their capabilities when they outsource? Our recent State of Outsourcing Study 2013, conducted with the support of KPMG, clearly shows the differing mission-critical business motivations across the main three global regions, when it comes to outsourcingRead More
The dreamSource countdown continues… Meet Mads (Part II)
If you have recovered from the mental impairment caused by the really awful governance dancing, it's time to get back to the serious discussion about the narrowing onshore/offshore cost gap, and diversity in sourcing.... so let's visit the final part of our recent interview with Madelein Smit, outsourcing head at the global logistics giant, CEVA LogisticsRead More
The dreamSource countdown… Meet Mads
Step-up Madelein "Mads" Smit, head of both IT and F&A outsourcing for CEVA LogisticsRead More
F&A BPO in 2013: Step aside Magic Quadrant, hello Blueprint
After three years of hard labor, we, at HfS, are proud to launch our first "HfS Blueprint" that we believe is the a revolutionary crowdsourced methodology for evaluating business and IT service providers.Read More
Cheap and cheerful: Is this really as good as it gets for IT Outsourcing?
ITO maybe a commodity business, but a new wave of collaborative BPO services is beginning to show the wayRead More
