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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
BPO: Pronounced dead, but still very much alive
BPO is just at the beginning of a much more dynamic phase of its existence and it at least three years' away from being put to bed.Read More
Is BPO on the brink of a technology revolution?
Why BPO clients which have tech-enabled their processes are achieving better performance and outcomesRead More
Automation killed the gamification star
Even back in '79 the world was already beginning to zone in on the power of automationRead More
BPO will continue to fail miserably… without a mindset to embrace change, develop talent and tech-enable processes
Our new "Technology in BPO" study reveals that this industry is on the brink of a significant, radical overhaul to its very core value propositionRead More
Automation: it’s about solving business problems, stupid!
We asked HfS' Charles Sutherland to share his views on what is really happening with process automation and why is shouldn't be confused with technology automation theories of yesteryearRead More
2014 shared services and outsourcing outlook Part II: Why GBS will not be bullsh*t
While several folks make valid arguments why GBS may be a pipe-dream for their own organization (or some of their clients' organizations), we believe they are missing the big pictureRead 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
Invest in the humans first, systems second
people lead people and they are asking for the support, training, and enablement to meet and collaborate to both better manage day-to-day work and develop into the next generation of leadersRead More
Senior managers are almost as disengaged as their subordinates
While we did find higher levels of engagement the higher up the proverbial ladder one goes in an organization, the key take away for us was the difference wasn't that much.Read More
