Category: Sourcing Best Practises
Alsbridge digs deep into the guts of the Cloud with Telwares acquisition
A subtle, but decisive, shift took place in the sourcing advisory landscape today, with Alsbridge's announcing the acquisition of leading telecoms/networking sourcing advisor, Telwares, to firmly place Alsbridge as the main contender to ISG at the helm of the independent boutique advisor market.Read More
Captain Cliff of the Sourcing Enterprise Part IV… The Final Frontier
Let's boldly go to the final frontier of our discussion where KPMG's Cliff Justice talks about how the world of "outsourcing" has changed in today's economyRead More
Are YOU ready for dreamSource?
Today, we're proud to announce the unveiling of what promises to be the ultimate sourcing showdown of leading enterprise buyers and providers... in Westchester County, New York, next SpringRead More
Captain Cliff of the Sourcing Enterprise Part III… The Death of the “O” Word
Welcome back to the Captain Cliff chronicles. And since Part II, we have actually witnessed Cliff speak for a whole hour at an outsourcing conference and manage not to mention the "O" word once. That's quite a feat, so let's find out why... Read More
Greetings from Robotistan, outsourcing’s cheapest new destination
How would you like to build a software robot to automate a business process for one client, and then resell copies of that robot to a dozen other clients in the same vertical?Read More
Tiger Tales… Part I
Noone has been closer to the buyers over the years to observe the changing conversations, the growing awareness of their needs and apply these to the ever-competitive provider marketplace. Yes, it's time to touchbase with NV “Tiger” Tyagarajan, now 18 months into his tenure as CEO of Genpact.Read More
Captain Cliff of the Sourcing Enterprise Part II… The Death of Outsourcing
And welcome back to our interview with KPMG's Captain Cliff who has proclaimed the Death of Outsourcing in a recent white paperRead More
Captain Cliff of the Sourcing Enterprise… Part I
allow us to introduce Cliff Justice, KPMG's very own kingpin of the extended enterprise, who's calmly building out one of the most impressive collections of experienced sourcing operators and thinkers in the global shared services and outsourcing industryRead More
The great outsourcing talent-chasm: 57% of service provider staff don’t understand their clients’ businesses
In terms of business understanding, initiative, innovation and culture, non-US staff are miles behind local staff. For example, only 43% of outsourcing customer feel their non-US staff understands their business, when compared to 88% of local staff. Yes, this gap will surely close as the industry matures, but I find this talent-chasm unacceptable in today's global marketplace.Read More
Why the social enterprise matters… Yarmis brings his thoughts back from Dreamforce
We can't understate the importance of social media on the enterprise. Hey - we bet our whole business model on it! And that's why we hired one of the best thinkers in the social sphere to help us understand how social will impact business processes and how enterprises will operate in this new social world we live in. So we coaxed Jonathan Yarmis from his Dreamforce-induced hangover, where he was living it up with 90,00o 0ther technology geeks, to tell HfS why this matters....Read More