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Redefining leadership roles is critical to be an effective Autonomous Enterprise
A strong governance capability has the talent, tech infrastructure, automation, and AI to deliver the data that will drive success with minimal manual interventions that impede progress and speed. The ultimate goal of an autonomous enterprise allows us humans to remove ourselves from some parts of the system so that we can make continuous improvements to the ecosystem as a whole. What are the leadership roles needed to understand the data they need? How can we build the right internal teams and external partnerships to support an autonomous enterprise? And how can we design smart governance to manage key decisions faster with some degree of confidence? Read More
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It’s all just so easy when you got DC…
When we look at the now-famous Cognizant CEO factory, probably the best-known of the bunch is Debashis Chatterjee (known simply as "DC" to everyone in the biz), who now finds himself leading the new $4.2bn powerhouse that is LTIMindtree. He's also one of the calmest and easy-going guys you can hope to meet in this business. So let's hear directly from DC... what makes him tick and what's next for the new 7th largest Indian-heritage service provider... Read More
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Who’s leading the pack for strategic finance services?
The HFS Strategic Finance Horizons report analyzes services provider capabilities shaping the financial planning and analysis industry and their proven capabilities to help their enterprise customers access critical financial data at speed. HFS assessed 13 major service providers' prowess in the strategic areas of FP&A. Read More
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2023 is the year of ‘The Autonomous Enterprise’ as economics trigger change
Inflation-driven pressures will likely culminate in a huge wave of job reductions, sparking the demand for autonomous technologies to fill the void Read More
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The Six Principles of The Autonomous Enterprise
An autonomous enterprise is one whose leadership continuously seeks to refine the data it needs in real-time to be successful. Its governance capability ensures it has the talent, tech infrastructure, automation, and AI to deliver the data that will drive success with minimal manual interventions that impede progress and speed. The ultimate goal of an autonomous enterprise allows us humans to remove ourselves from some parts of the system so that we can make continuous improvements to the ecosystem as a whole. Read More
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Sustainability in 2023: Business continues to outpace politics. But not by enough
We’re still clueless about sustainability. Key people, in key organizations, in key rooms, still need help with contextualizing their roles and where to best spend their time and energy. Here we run over some musing across the global context, sustainability services, the energy and utilities industries, and the supply chain. If you make it to the bottom, you’ll find the last sources of optimism in the hand of both services firms and the increasingly powerful coalitions of the willing hoping to overcome the failures of politics and apologize later. Read More
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2023 will provide a huge opportunity for automation service providers… so how do they stack up?
The economic conditions in 2023 will put automation in the hot seat, and expectations are on operations leaders to roll out automation initiatives. So one thing is clear, most organizations will need a lot of help to roll out real automations that perform more than basic RPA - they need to evaluate automation and AI technologies across the board to move their organizations forward across our three Horizons. Read More
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New HFS Horizons Report! Healthcare Payer Service Providers are all about the right fit
In October 2022, HFS said goodbye to the Top 10s and welcomed HFS Horizons, a forward-looking construct to evaluate service providers. Our first industry focused horizon report is the healthcare payer service provider report that was published in November 2022. This report helps healthcare enterprise buyers make high-confidence buying and partnering decisions in the context of the specific challenges they are attempting to address. Read More
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re:Invent or re:Position? AWS tries to ‘out Google’ Google on the importance of your data strategy
AWS could lose steam as the migration to the cloud, as a technology platform, gives way to the cloud’s role in making data a business asset. While AWS's growth numbers are still holding up, there could be significant changes on the horizon as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) makes up lost ground with its approach to a data-centric cloud environment. Read More
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The OneOffice Data Cycle: Data is your strategy, automation your mindset, AI your autonomy
To be a truly autonomous organization, the principles of OneOffice hold truer than ever: workflows need to execute in real-time between customers and employees - and engage partners in your ecosystem. OneOffice is about understanding and discovering the data you must have to win in your market - right now in real-time - as the market environment keeps changing. Read More